Mikhail Shemyakin shows unknown Vysotsky at the exhibition in Moscow

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Mikhail Shemyakin shows unknown Vysotsky at the exhibition in Moscow

MOSCOW, November 8 - RIA Novosti, Svetlana Yankina. Mikhail Shemyakin personally presented an exhibition of his illustrations for the book "Two of Destiny", which includes the lyrics of Vladimir Vysotsky, and memories of the artist's friendship with him, in the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin, on Tuesday, reports RIA Novosti.

At the exhibition hall with a poluzatemnennom-sounding songs of Vysotsky demonstrated 42 works - to match his age singer - author watercolors, photographs, postcards and letters that friends sent each other, and the publication of the songs of Vysotsky recorded Shemyakin.

"The interesting thing is that the drawings in the exhibition are accompanied by sketches, - it is the rare case when the artist shows the process of his work the audience," - said the exhibition's curator Xenia Bezmenova.

She added that the illustrations in the exhibition are located next to the texts, to the visitors an opportunity to assess how well the artist felt the texture of the poetry of Vladimir Vysotsky.

Shemyakin, long living in New York City, admitted that he worked on these illustrations as much as ten years, and nearly 200-page book has appeared in more than two thousand pages of manuscripts.

"I do not like the word" memoir ", so the genre of the book described as a note. I think there are certain things unknown to fans Vysotsky, so they tried to cover" - talked about "two fates" Shemyakin.

For example, readers of the book, you can browse here on the exhibition, will be able to learn what opinion Vysotsky was about the work of European artists of the 20th century.

Illustrations to the songs of Vysotsky Shemyakin distributed by themes: fate, alcohol, hunting of wolves, mental hospital, flowers of evil, the Civil War, World War II, Russia. In the same way and built the exhibition.

"To All the songs were hard to create an illustration, but the most difficult to draw on our relationship, so these figures are grotesque-comic character, because it seriously themselves - a kind of manifestation of stupidity" - said Shemyakin.

Also, he said, was difficult to work on the visualization of the texts on Civil and Second World Wars.

"One of the songs," Fire, "Vysotsky dedicated to my father, who has gone through the wars. With him the singer spoke with reverence and some fear, so did not dare to sing his song," - said the artist.

In the preface to the artist wrote that the title of the book carries a very deep philosophical meaning: "This is about the fate of the two inseparable, united by love, pain, suffering and joy - is the fate of Russia and Vladimir Vysotsky. And it contains and friends and foes and "beloved and faithful women" and "black man", and the sad light angel. This is a book about my graphic dreams. " The exhibition will run until December 11.

Artist Mikhail Shemyakin, State Prize of the Russian Federation, People's Artist of Kabardino-Balkaria, People's Artist of the Republic of Adygea and Honorary Doctor of the University of San Francisco, was born May 4, 1943 in Moscow. In 1971 he was expelled from the Soviet Union and lived in Paris, where he met with Vladimir Vysotsky. The artist was a close friend of the poet and musician. He drew illustrations to Vysotsky and recorded his songs, which after processing by Michael Lieberman was published in 1987.

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