Рассказ о творчестве одного из ключевых художников в русском послевоенном неофициальном искусстве — Дмитрия Плавинского.

Dmitry Plavinsky (b. 1937 ) - a recognized master of the unofficial Soviet art, whose works are in the collections of leading museums in the world, including the Metropolitan and MoMA. His calling card is filled with various symbols of melancholic songs, where each element is as if assembled from fine particles discharged from a truly jewelry diligence.

According to the memoirs Plavinskaya artistic gift was revealed he had a very early age - ten years. He copied reproductions from the Art History Gnedich, later learned the wisdom of the beautiful craftsmanship in a children's art school. Then there was "stormy nonconformist youth" - Study on the theater department of the Moscow State College 1905, in 1957 - a fateful trip to the famous exhibition of Western painting, subsequent experiments with abstraction ... Subsequently, however, ways Plavinsky and Western art went mainstream: while in America boomed pop art, happenings were organized and "dying art" the artist deeper into metaphysics and the "big themes", confident that the oil on the canvas can do many more interesting things. And not just oil: the artist was experimenting a lot with other materials in an effort to overcome the two-dimensionality paintings and achieve unusual visual effects.

recognition among knowledgeable people Plavinsky received in his youth: the first "personalka" painter was in 1960. Soon his work began to buy American, Nina Stevens, a few years later to present its collection of "second Russian avant-garde" at the MoMA. It was then that the world-famous museum has decided to introduce three of Plavinsky in his collection. The artist also supported George Costaki .

Plavinsky himself once called himself a "gypsy" in art : it has always featured an unquenchable thirst for knowledge of different cultures. Since late 1950, he traveled extensively in Central Asia, studying local religious traditions, as well as trying to reconnect with the victim under the Bolsheviks Russian Christian culture. After emigration to the United States, in the 1990's, Plavinsky actively traveled through Europe, trying to comprehend all the riches of the West Classic. Along with this creative artist is unthinkable without his hobbies natural forms: symbols of human civilizations at his pictures are found with images of prehistoric fish, turtles, shells, skeleton ... He belongs to the series of paintings and prints devoted to the plants - "The Book of Herbs (1963).

Plavinsky - especially a very strong schedule. The body of his recognizable graphic work includes both symbolic hallucinatory compositions ("turtle", "Rhinoceros" and so forth) and more realistic works, particularly a series of extinction of a Russian village (late 1960 - early 1980). For instance, his outstanding print "Church of the Annunciation in a village near Zagorsk brought at auction on June 10 Macdougall's quite" divine "4,3 thousand pounds (at Estima 2-3 thousand).

not be an exaggeration to say that Plavinsky is one of the most underrated artists of the postwar Russian art. The last large-scale paintings by the artist, appeared on the international auction (Sotheby's, June 9), was executed in 1967 "Still Life" with religion (probably the name of a simplified, inaccurate). He went for an amount equal to the lower estimeytu (80-120 thousand pounds sterling), and took first place in the list of the most expensive works of the master. This is followed by "Space list" (1987), changed ownership in important market for Russian art auctions Phillips February 28, 2008, the same, where " Beetle "Ilya Kabakov was sold for 2.6 million pounds sterling. "Leaf" bought over 65 thousand - an impressive figure, given that experts evaluated the pattern of 10-15 thousand Received the same estimeyt "shell" went on the evening of 55 thousand pounds.

Material prepared Yulia Maximova, AI

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