Сreative work of Natalia Severtsov

Abstract

Natalia Severtsov-Gabrichevsky (1901-1970) was a bright and extraordinary personality. Her natural temperament, artistry, and beauty attracted scientists and artists to her. And, if in Moscow life professional employment and scientific studies of her husband's circle of friends determined both the rhythm and style of communication, then in Koktebel, where they went to live freely, play, relax, there was an atmosphere in which her talent as a hostess, a spiritual circle, as well as the gift of an artist flourished.                     N. A. Severtsova created what experts define as naive art. It could be said that her work was formed contrary to the tastes and artistic ideals that were inherent in her friends and mentors from the inner circle. This was an example of a naive vision remaining intact in an elite environment. However, N. A. Severtsova was a person of her own circle – a true intellectual, with an inherent, independent, thinking people's view of the world, sharp, often ironic, always non-standard. With the passage of time – tens of years since the time when a cheerful friendly company gathered around the table in the Koktebel house of the Gabrichevskys – it becomes clear that the oppressive pressure of Soviet reality was resisted by people connected by friendly and professional relations, common interests and hobbies. N. A. Severtsova's art embodies that way of life and style of self-expression, which was inherent in the circle of people gathered in the house Sewerzowii-Gabrichevski, which inherits the consumer culture of our fathers and grandfathers kept their habits, manners, ways of judgment as carefully as paintings and graphics, get a legacy. These traditions continue to be kept by niece and pupil of N. A. Severtsova – O. S. Severtsev (b. 1931). It has preserved not only the entire artistic heritage of N. A. Severtsova, but also the archives of all scientists who belonged to this exceptional family.