Graphics
Mikhail Andreevich Savitsky is known primarily as an artist-painter. However, the collection of graphic sheets of the Minsk History Museum testifies to Savitsky's talent as a graphic artist. The basis of the collection is made up of works from his student years: landscape sketches, portraits of sitters.
Of interest to researchers of the creative process are sketches for future paintings, which are easily recognizable by the composition of the drawing or by individual details - fragments of a future large work. Such sketches are often made on small sheets of paper, sheets of a tear-off calendar, book page spreads. With a quick hand, the idea of the compositional solution is "written down", the arrangement of figures is built, the dynamics of the characters' movements are determined, static objects are "installed". Among such sketches, there are portraits and self-portraits, sketches of interior details.
A separate chapter in the creative biography of M.A. Savitsky can be considered the period of experiments with book graphics. In the 1960s. In parallel with his work on paintings, he made pen drawings for magazines at a good professional level, skillfully decorating children's books with ornamental patterns. Some books designed by M.A. Savitsky were awarded honorary diplomas, including the retelling of the poetic epic "Kukushkiny slezy".
In 1960 and 1962, M.A. Savitsky's illustrations for A.N. Kulakovsky's story "Meetings on the Grasslands", I.N. Ptashnikov's novel "Wait in the Long Greens", and V.V. Bykov's story "The Third Rocket" appeared in the magazines "Maladost".
The funds of the Minsk City History Museum contain sketches by M.A. Savitsky to the children's books "Zyazulchyny slezy" by M. Mashara (1961), "Sunny Garden" by G. Kunovsky (1964), "Zelyanushka i krakatushka" by M. Mashara (1964).
