Sitnikov Vasily Yakovlevich

August 15, 1915 (the village of Novo-Rakitin Lebedyanskiy County Tambov province) - November 28, 1987 (USA)

painter and graphic artist.

In 1933 he studied at the Moscow ship & mechanical college. Attempt to do in VHUTEMAS in 1935 failed. Worked on the construction of the underground, animators and the director patternmaker AL Ptushko, showed slides of the lectures of professors of the Art Institute. VISurikova (for which he received the nickname "Vaska lamplighter", which was known in the informal circles). Becoming a victim of libel, in 1941 he was arrested, declared insane and sent to compulsory treatment in Kazan. Back in the capital (1944), odd jobs.

During the "thaw" joined the movement of unofficial art.

Since 1951, the artist actively taught, realized his dream of "home academy. Its educational system included many controversial paradoxes (advice on how to learn tone, "rastushevyvaya" newspaper photos, or how to write landscape broom from the trough with a colorful solution).

«... What is drawing? How should we draw? Drawing must be in the mind. That is, I teach drawing, the vision, imagination. We must learn to draw - not see the horizon of your drawing object, and it before. On the line you should forget and do not even know what it is. Like a cow. She does not know what a line. Lines do something and not. There is a horizon, ie the inversion of the invisible side. Before the forms - that's landmarks, and they can be any number. ... Corrode everything, except the only concern about the form and space, and this we must learn first. And all the rest: and proportions, and composition, and rhythm, and harmony - everything, everything, everything will come by itself ... » (V. Sitnikov).

With "school Sitnikov was linked - as a direct apprenticeship, and creative contacts - a number of prominent artists.

Since 1956 has participated in numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad, including:

1970 - Nuove correntia Mosca (Museo Belli Arti, Lugano, Switzerland);

1975 - Exhibition of works by Moscow artists in the pavilion "Culture House" (VDNH, Moscow);