One of the best works of Victor Popkov, I personally very much. (EA)
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Popkov Viktor E. (09/03/1932 - 11/12/1974)
Soviet artist-sixties. He studied at the Moscow Art Institute. VISurikov (1952-1958).
One of the leaders of the direction of "severe style".
Painting Popkov different drama, psychological imagery and situations, the desire for philosophical meditation on life, severity of compositions and saturated colors.
From 1956 to 1974, Popkov traveled Baikal, Siberia, Moscow, Vologda, north, where the impression is created by a series of oil paintings, gouache and pencil.
In the West it was called a dissident. His work ostrosotsialnye always irritated the authorities.
Overcoat father
This unique conversation piece completes a series of paintings about the war. This self-portrait dedicated to his father - Yefim Akimovich Popkov, who died early in the war. The sketch for the painting - an excerpt from the latter, probably, letters Yefim Akimovich wife Stepanida Ivanovna Popkov:
"Our part of Smolensk. Heavy fighting. Stesha, tell Chuvilkinoy Masha that Fedor was killed. Yesterday he was found still alive. He died with me. Stesha today again fighting. If something happens to me, take care of children and themselves. (Words "I kiss, your Yefim, Oct. 21. 1941" crossed out.) Kiss firmly Tomochku, Vitya and Kolya. Stesha, now in the battle. Finish after the battle ... "
Not finished.
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The parting words of his father formed the basis of design patterns Overcoat father. " His deeply personal reminiscence of his father Popkov put himself in a number of northern widows, tying his own fate with their damned lonely woman's shares. Widows if off from the gray-green, the color of a soldier's overcoat background and become close to him, trying on his father's overcoat.
"One evening he came to me in an overcoat of his father, down on the floor near the wall and told me she was crying today, working on the painting" - recalls artist K. Friedman.
Of course, this is not a soldier's coat Yefim Anya, but she belonged to his father's wife of Victor Popkov, the artist Clara Kalinychevoy, kept in the family as a relic, and at the same time was used for the case in all appropriate cases.
Popkov, with the clear and precise vision of figurative paintings for a long time would not let herself the central figure. He had several times changed its position, rotation of the head, a gesture of his hands, even clothes, trying to find the right color relationships and the color of a soldier's overcoat, and with a background picture. Not only is congruent with the tones, but also contrast. The final point was a bright purple stain on the palette. By the way, meaningful reception, which he introduced in the film "Northern Song". There, the final point was a red flower geranium on the windowsill.
Some critics see in "The Overcoat father" echoes of old arguments about the connection between generations. I must say that such a problem for Popkov not exist. Contact generations he felt vitally. He had a great love for the mother to the deceased father, respect for elders artists, but the perspective of his work is much more compassion for the families and friends.
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No, I will seek. No, I will not moan.
Silence will laugh. I shall go softly sobbing.
Silence will be loving, quiet will be sick
Quietly, I'll live to be Quiet and death.
If my happiness, if my god
I'm not going to swing, I find your threshold.
Will the people I'm good, I would be all I love
It would be a sad laugh, I would be a sad laugh.
AND you do not offend. Even'll put meanness.
Pity least once in life. Death! Will you come? I smolchu.
Viktor Popkov. About
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1.Hudozhnik Viktor Popkov. Overcoat father. 1972. GTG. Oil on canvas. 176 x 120. The State Tretyakov Gallery