Форум по искусству и инвестициям в искусство

Havrylchyk Vladlen V. was born November 27, 1929 in the town of Termez, the Uzbek SSR in the family of the commander of border-guard. He graduated from the Tashkent academy school. Then Leningrad border vysschee Naval Academy, receiving a degree deck officer and the rank of Lieutenant. He served aboard the Pacific Fleet border. In 1955 transferred to the reserve and began to live in Leningrad, where he began working in the design office specialist elektronavigatsionnym devices. In 1960 he took up painting as an amateur painter. In 1970 he abandoned a career in engineering in order to fully devote himself to his favorite art. To maintain the creative independence earned his bread and paint, working skipper of the barge, train conductor post, telegraph operator in the newspaper, the watchman, fireman. In his works he made no attempts to collaborate with the official culture. An important Havrylchyk for himself believes a meeting with the student Filonov - M. Tsibasovym, which showed that one can be a modern artist and a realist at the same time.

Vladlen Havrylchyk - one of the most prominent representatives of the first generation of the Leningrad underground. Artist and poet, Havrylchyk and his art and lifestyle epitomized the most creative, that is nekommertsializirovannye and non-ideological beginning of that particular culture, which was formed in Leningrad in 1970 as opposition to the culture of the semi-official.

Havrylchyk began his artistic career as an artist seventh day. Professional Navy officer, he took up art, became a matter of his life, being already well-established man. However, the primitive method, which lasted more than a decade, marked by internal development: from the natural and spontaneous naivizma worldview Havrylchyk to end 70 years comes to understanding primitivist techniques as specific means of expression. This is not a traditional "ignorant" Painting: naivistskaya intonation quite otrefeksirovanna Rather, it is the line of the absurd attitude that leads its origins from the poetics 20-30-ies, and which is painted socio-cultural impulses of the "Soviet way of life 70. In the 1980's in the works Havrylchyk growing social motives, however, its representational portraits and genre is difficult to consider the rise in social-art: rather, it is very personal, ironic, is not lost narrotivnosti historical painting.

Alexander Borovsky