Vasily Zhuravlev (1936 -2005)

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Vasily Ivanovich Zhuravlev (1936 -2005)

A talented, versatile artist (on the work of Vasily Zhuravlev)


There are artists, the value and meaning of creativity which is revealed immediately, but over time, sometimes after their earthly journey. This was, for example, the fate of the great Vincent Van Gogh. We in Uzbekistan was not immediately understood and appreciated the artistic heritage of this famous criticism of the painter, as Alexander Volkov. This article focuses on the remarkable, has been completed your course of life, drawing, painters, sculptors, craftsmen, mechanics, and the poet Vasily Ivanovich Zhuravlev. He was born in southern Kazakhstan, in a peasant family. His father was involved in World War II, and paternal grandfather was a Cossack officer who died during the Russian Civil War in 1917 Father Vasily Zhuravlev - eight boys left without parents - sheltered and raised a Kazakh family.


The impressions of childhood and youth, held in Kazakhstan, had a decisive influence on the rest of his life and work of the artist. Vasily graduated from Alma-Ata theatrical art school. In 1962, Zhuravlev entered the graphic arts department faculty of Tashkent Theatre and Arts Institute. Already in his student years involved in the Republican and then-Union art exhibitions. In one of the All-Union Art Exhibition 1970. Zhuravleva composition, performed in the technique of linocut, was acquired by the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.


Zhuravlev - highly professional painter - has mastered the art of not only prints, but also the technique of watercolor painting. He created a series of remarkable landscape paintings with great insight into the spirit of each location by displaying a variety of state of the steppe, foothills, the village nature of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. These paintings are very original both in its color and the emotional and lyrical content, and by distinctly individual style of performance. The most seemingly ordinary objects of the Central Asian nature - the prairie sunsets, moonlit nights will come alive on the artist's paintings in his realistic-romantic transfiguration. They can stare for a long time, they are completely free from the flat and dry photographic. By participating in the creative journeys Union of artists of diverse Zhuravlev watercolors printed out in their large-format watercolors nature of the northern regions and cities of Russia - Taymyr and Norilsk. But his favorite subjects were Kazakh and Uzbek landscapes. With much love, he portrayed a steppe Haloxylon, seeing it as one of the unique phenomena of the Central Asian nature, is clearly expressed in his monumental canvases of his plastic beauty and vitality.

In his works the artist shunned by short-term, though, of course, responded to the events of the social atmosphere in the country in which he lived. But most of all fascinated him the secrets of nature, it is inextricably linked with the cosmos earthly beauty.

Zhuravlev was a master of all trades. I remember how amazed I upgraded them to easel painting. This remarkable artist was both a carpenter and mechanic, and a designer. In addition, Zhuravlev and was an original poet. In his lyrics displayed the unique charm of the Middle Nature, however, it is felt the spirit of Russian folk poetry. Poems Juravleva close in spirit to the work of such eminent poets as A. Koltsov, Esenin, N. Klyuev. Zhuravlev has devoted his favorite poem, Uzbekistan, which has these lines:

Oh, begs, begs you, native Uzbeks!
Dastarkhan your wealth to eternal ages.
Nothing threatens you, nor hunger, nor scaffold.
You faithfully honor the prayers of Allah.
Do you have warm hands - there is no warmer.
Cotton is always a golden grows.
There is nowhere in the world superior edge -
This generous ecumenical place of paradise.
Oh, Uzbeks, Uzbeks, you - the good backs!

Zhuravlev left a rich artistic heritage and our duty to the public, the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan is to do everything possible to preserve it until it all went talented works in private collections and are not exported outside Uzbekistan.

Raphael Taktash

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VI Zhuravlev, watercolor

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Zhuravlev, VI schedule

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VI Zhuravlev painting