Yes ... Active, cheerful person, and not to rush past.
Decided to duplicate a message in memory of threads about it (most recently 08/24 - was still alive).
Vitaly Statsinsky-luminary of the Jolly pictures »
Funny pictures it did not change either in the same journal, or in illustrations "cherished fairy tales" that are no longer for children (with a normal mentality). Although it might, just once, when, as an eyewitness fiasco (or elevation) of friends, created a series of "Bulldozer Exhibition eye witnesses."
Vitaly Kazimirovich Statsinsky - a graphic artist. Born Oct. 6, 1928 in Kyzyl-Orda, the Kazakh SSR.
In 1941, aged 13 years was a member of the group of amateur teens who procured arms and preparing for the defense of Moscow from the Germans. "Suitable freight train, the soldiers jump out of it:" Guys, where there would be something ... A piece of bread would be ... "And in return gave the weapon. For a pack of tobacco you could get a box limonok. "He was arrested and sat in the Butyrskaya three months. There, at the request of criminals drew tattoos. These were his first artistic experiments. Then there was the court and B. Statsinsky received two years probation (as the organizer of the gang).
After the war he entered the Moscow Polygraphic Institute and graduated in 1953. In 1956 he began working in the new magazine "Fun". "Even then I was absolutely convinced that children need to draw differently than adults. We must be sure to spot five fingers, make sure little white tail and so on."
Problems at work: Every three months we were called to the Central Committee of Komsomol. Here's how something has been brewing for another scandal, and we decided to call with a Agniyu Barto, but she said she was busy. Semenov said: "Vitali is the most reliable - it Mikhalkov. Call ". Come. Began meeting this Pustynin of "Crocodile": here, the children's magazine in the Komsomol, and what's going on - at number 15 dogs, 26 cats, all kinds of frogs, mice, and the pioneers is almost there. And suddenly, Sergey, as always, stammering: "And I think that the magazine is very good. And if there will be 26 good mice, rabbits and petrushek, this is better than 25 bad pionerchikov! "
In the mid-60's left the magazine: "I got all of this ideology, and especially the endless calls to the authorities. I have made this magazine what he wanted. The wife often said: "Vitali, choose - or you are an artist, or a major artist." I left the "Fun" and started drawing for "Detgiz" for "Goslita", "Sovpisa." "I brought copies" Fun pictures "to 10 million. Now, 118,000 pcs.
A few years later moved to the main artist in the "Gingerbread Man".
On the "Bulldozer Exhibition", which was attended by all his friends: "I was invited, but I did not go. I was a spectator, watching these guys in jeans with a Komsomol badge zashvyrivali pictures on the truck - there was screaming, cursing, in the course of someone climbing into the back, snatched my story ... my father taught me to be very careful. I've had enough Butyrki. If you guys asked for a drawing or lithograph, I would give, but to like this - "Long live the so-and gut-buy it" - this I had never gone. "
Nevertheless, the KGB has refused to knock on friends and acquaintances, for the opportunity to travel abroad. For refusing to paid career, and everything else, as a consequence. In 1978 he emigrated to France. He currently lives in Paris.
George Costakis contributed to the acquisition of his home in Paris, across the street from the Pere Lachaise.
"Being a traditional classic illustrator sadly, this is a very difficult profession. You go through the text, but when something out of you vyhlestyvaetsya, it is not always appropriate, something does not work. There are moments when I can two or three months is absolutely nothing to do. "
But it did eventually.
http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/ale.../post14940504/
Very interesting
http://www.inostranets.ru/archive/20..._4/art11.shtml
From LCR of Parisian house Statsinskogo: "And then the Paris City Hall expropriated this microscopic piece of land with the house. About to buy something in Paris on compensation was impossible even to think, and Vitali and his wife Tania moved to a house in Provo , near Paris ... "