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»