Russian neoekspressionist Vladimir Titov

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Vladimir Titov - one of the biggest, most important and best painters still alive the Russian diaspora, the artist who created his own recognizable color, its poetic world, peopling it with his characters, finding expression for his original pictorial form.
  In other words, he - artistically independent person, that in itself is rare in Russian art.

The subject of artistic understanding and creative inspiration for Vladimir Titov, the world had become marginalized and excluded. This social aspect of his art noted by many critics. However, the metaphorical power of his paintings goes far beyond merely displaying the life of this social group. In essence, they all contain the questions posed and constantly asks himself humanity. Why? Why is it always, until now, still not as I would like?

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Bestrangement building a parallel world of his characters, showing the kind of antizhitie, an artist with no breaks with the surrounding reality, and imagery of his art helps the attentive audience in its not a rational comprehension.

Titov loves muse absurd nonsense muse. His characters are touching and tragic, ugly and comical, ridiculous and disgusting, but he sympathizes with them, empathizes, gives some of its appearance, it is quite possible to say - it was he himself, in the sense that Flaubert said of Madame Bovary.

Zhivopisuya his world, the artist works in series. One of the first - a series of paintings entitled "turn". In a medium from which came Titov, this concept is not only her character, but also the shape of an individual stay in his life. To express this theme he uses in graphics and painting Sfumato and monochrome, as the image of being colorless, impersonal, minimalist mediating spiritual leveling. A characteristic feature of his expressive subjects - bestrangement, that is their incompatibility with the grotesque reality when, for example, the angels came down opportunities to save these unfortunate people, suddenly have themselves become part of this gloomy, hopeless, absurd being.

This technique is found in the cycles of development work, which can be called "Chocolate candy and greeting" Happy New Year! . Combining the incompatible - images dysfunctional realities with the measured characters of a certain worldly prosperity, the author focuses our attention on the trend of total mismatch "wrapping" the validity of its true content.

Many images of paintings Titov spent homeless, urban pariahs thrown from the correct people's lives, which by their very existence call into question the correctness of this. At first glance, his work thematically can bring together the activities of Russian Wanderers with their critical realism in the depiction of the underdog, but this is only apparent parallel. In fact, the artistic space Titova - veiled fiction, rather rodnyaschaya him with Nikolai Gogol or Venechkoy Yerofeyev.

The range of his plastic language is broad and fully modern. From subtle nuances grizalnoy gladkopisi until pasty, texture painting, sometimes with almost bas-relief inclusions colorful mass of a virtuoso, always aesthetically justified using any improvised stuff, sometimes turning the picture into an object with sudden outbursts of unexpected color.

As this is a great master, he has mastered the tools such as composition, drawing, color, but all the same color - it's his hobby, his undeniable gift of a color that makes all sorts of filth and rubbish in an aesthetically charged, the shimmering surface. If necessary, he may seek the necessary effect, it only shades of one tone. Thus, for example, implemented a series of paintings "Black and white film, and in particular, the triptych" Moscow-Petushki.
Such a wealth of sophisticated color and unique texture of his works, of course, can not convey any picture or video. His art requires only direct communication that are willing and able to do in the Marble Hall of the Russian Museum on the big retrospective exhibition from 28 October.

In the work of each of the major masters are works in which a maximum concentration of imagery transferred some secret features, features characteristic of his people and his time. Place such works - in the major national repositories, and their reproduction should be replicated in all the textbooks and anthologies, as one of the elements of the basic ideals on which the national identity. We are Russian - not only because they speak the same language, but also because, inter alia, that our mind responds to such names as Rublev, Rokotov, Borovikovsky, Surikov Kramskoy, Repin, Vrubel, Nesterov, Korzh, Popkov ...

Such works have Titova, among others, I count «Russian StandART» and the triptych "Golgotha". At first, I think, with great self-irony noted by the national craving for bizarre, senseless spectacular pieces. Can overseas shoe a flea, and horses forge never learned. Russia - the country dreams of triumph over practice.

Triptych "Golgotha" for me - it is concise, extremely rich, plastic sharp, expressive way of unscrupulous and diabolical sweetness of 90-ies. The greatest feat in the name of humanity for the images in the triptych character - funny performance at the corporate celebration of their lives.
This is a picture of us and the eternal. Masterpiece. With him in Russian culture has become more complete unit.

I will conclude with a quotation from the critic, who briefly described the paintings of Vladimir Titov so.
"Expressive, brutal, extremely energetic and, simultaneously, in its essence a very subtle, poetic, plastically irreproachable paintings in keeping with the sort of basic rhythms of the universe»

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Vladimir Titov was born Nov. 2, 1950 in Moscow in the family of employees. His father had a secondary art education in his youth he painted.

In childhood, Vladimir Titov, other hobbies besides drawing was not, the problem of choosing a future profession, too. He always knew that it would be an artist.

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Thank you Art-ort and Ranzheru for Titov.

Here are some pictures:

[олег назаров]

everything is great ... and a good artist, but that's Neo in my opinion this is another ...
Here, for example - Oleg Kotelnikov 83g

[Тютчев]

Сообщение от ranzher

Vladimir Titov - one of the biggest, most important and best painters still alive the Russian diaspora, the artist who created his own recognizable color, its poetic world, peopling it with his characters, finding expression for his original pictorial form.
  In other words, he - artistically independent person, that in itself is rare in Russian art.

Your approval and laid out your pictures plunged my horror! Can it be so bad in the Russian art? Is Russian land ceased to bear and nurture talent, whereby she has always been famous?
      But my frustration has been replaced by skepticism, and I asked myself the question: "Is it good if you know Russian art, if the first paragraph of your article you say that" artistically independent person "-" in itself is rare in Russian art. "
      Can I trust the words of a man who discovers such an ignorance of the subject, which is trying to argue?!
      In his article you are trying to teach mediocrity as a kind of significant event. But the way that you have chosen to do so, or rather belittle the truly significant, in the hope that it somehow will present the works of your simpatanta more or less favorable light, is usually chosen only the most desperate circumstances. I'm not sure what you hope? At his eloquence, or the stupidity of the local audience?

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Сообщение от Oleg Nazarov

that's only Neo in my opinion this is another ...

Oleg Nazarov, and you should look ... the spirit is much in common.

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Сообщение от Jasmin

... but you should look ... the spirit is much in common.

Such as the artist Titov incredibly much! Their millions! And combines them vulgar and creative nullity! Look, for example, one of the specimens of their "creativity":

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Сообщение от Tjutchev

Titov incredibly much! Their millions!

Yes, exactly.
There Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut, the second Soviet man in space, the Hero of the Soviet Union.

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, and combines triviality and creative nullity!

And that's about it, can not say anything.
You ought to know.

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Сообщение от Tjutchev

I can not understand

Logically, Russia can not understand ... (c): D

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Сообщение от ranzher

In 1972, fate brings him to Vasily Yakovlevich Sitnikov. Very soon, in a famous private school, "Vaska-lamplighter", styled as VY Sitnikova artistic bohemian Moscow, Titov became the favorite pupil of Maitre. This love, attention, interest in the fate of his best student Vasily Yakovlevich carried until his death.

What impudence, however! It must be able to! Calling themselves the best pupil but still shamelessly lodge itself in the heart of a great artist! To give! Artist Titov clearly does not want to burden themselves with modesty and reverence to the teacher on the path to world fame and financial success. Done! Genius is not to anything! Next ...

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Сообщение от ranzher

In the Academy of Vaska-lamplighter "Titov spent three years, until the departure of Vasily Yakovlevich to emigrate. Much later, already established, well-known artist, he says: «In my life, the artist had two teachers: Vasily Sitnikov, and Nicolas Poussin. At first I learned to form, the second - the color ".

You can say anything! But where the evidence say? What is common in the figure by Titov and Sitnikov. He studied and studied, but never learned anything!