Zino Filippov soldiers artist, artist-dreamer

[Art Bulvar]

In his Sebastopol apartment was warm, cozy and smelled of paint . There is always a delight guests : wife Antonina S. regaled them tea and Zino Ivanovich showed his work - and the new , completed just yesterday , and old , written decades ago. He was happy to talk about their work , meetings, exhibitions , recalled funny stories ...

      Many of the paintings are autobiographical Filippova . They talk about his childhood and youth studies in Riga and lives in Sebastopol, about his experiences at the front.

       ZI Filippov was born in 1923 in the village Retchitsa Orel. When he was three years old, the family moved to Balaklava. Each stone of this small town have kept the memory of wars , outstanding people and, of course , heroes Kuprina Alexander and Alexander Greene. Listrigony , smugglers , people Zurbagan , sailors and fishermen are simple - they are all filled with bright colors the child's world and this fictional life, and that is the connection of waking and dream will forever be the foundation of attitude and artist. In 1931 he moved to Moscow Philippi . Already in his youth Zino decided to become a painter. He dreamed of after school to go to art school, but the war began. In 1941 , like all the boys in Moscow , he was eager to defend the capital . After three months of training courses the young sergeant sent to the Kalinin Front .

     Much of the events of those years is reflected in the paintings Filippova dedicated defense of Sevastopol , the realities of war and combat friendship . They are all written "from the heart ", imbued with the experience of the author - machine-gun company commander who participated in the defense of Moscow, wounded severely frostbite, but survived ... For courage and heroism ZI Filippov was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree , " For Courage " medals" For Victory over Germany "and" Defender of the Fatherland . "

      The artist is constantly returned to his work in the events of those years. One of the latest and most significant works on the theme of war was a triptych dedicated to the defense of Sevastopol and presented the memorial complex " 35th Coastal Battery ."

    Most of the paintings made ​​in the military cycle restrained colors with shades of ocher, red, gray (" Portrait of a commander ," " Still Life with a jar "). Eventually palette lightens on canvases appears blue-green sea and blue sky peace Sevastopol. In recent years, Filippov loved to paint portraits of sailors , genre scenes , telling about the naval working days and holidays (" music team ", " sailor in the compartment ").

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     Second leyttemoy the artist became Balaklava Green , or rather its Zurbagan . Images fabulous city by Filippov , so real , that seems to be about to enter the bay ship under crimson sails , and the girl dancing in the square, lovely gonna turn . Often he inhabited his Zurbagan Sebastopol artists , friends and acquaintances , among which can be found E. Aref'eva, Mirošničenko and, of course , the author himself. Residents of the seaside town of fun chatting in cafes, drinking beer , roam the streets and sing songs . In papers zurbaganskogo cycle revealed most fully creative nature Z. Filippova , its author's style , sometimes bordering on the naive painting, love of complex multidimensional compositions and bright multicolored palette . The artist works open color , his joyful " jingle " paint create the mood of the holiday and magic. One of the best works of the cycle - "Zurbagan" (1991 ) is stored in the Sevastopol Art Museum . MP Kroshitskogo .

     Throughout his life ZI Filippov painted landscapes . During his studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts of the Latvian SSR (1946-1953) and the period of teaching at the Riga Art School (1953-1956) created the subtle , poetic views of Riga, after 1956 - numerous images of Sevastopol - its bays , quays , streets and areas with young cedars, which are now grown almost to the sky ... And then as notes on memory - portraits of fellow students , colleagues , fellow artists , wife, son , self-portraits . The collection of the gallery " Art Boulevard " includes fine examples of early portraiture website . One of them - made ​​in the tradition of academic art " classmate Portrait " (1953 ) .

     Like most of the Crimean artists , Zino Ivanovich did not ignore the genre of still life . His compositions are easily represented in a particular room or associate with certain event : snowdrops bouquet reminiscent of the arrival of spring, magical flowers with a miniature wooden horse and beg in the nursery, and pinks with red telephone set - office ...

     But back to the biography Filippova . Shortly after moving to the Crimea and joining Sebastopol artistic production workshops he became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1960), a permanent participant of exhibitions in Crimea , Kiev and Moscow . In the post-Soviet era master exhibited significantly less and mainly in Moscow. Probably there knew his work better than in the cities of Ukraine. However, this does not apply to Sevastopol , where Zino I. constantly participated in collective exhibitions , held five solo exhibitions at the Museum of them . MP Kroshitskogo , exhibited work in private galleries . He adored Sevastopol city and loves it . Without exaggeration, we can say that ZI Filippov was here folk artist . Nevertheless , the official honorary titles ( Honored Artist of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Honored Artist of Ukraine ), he was only in 2004 , eight years before his death .

    Filippova paintings have good fortune : they are kept in the homes of his close friends , the Art Museum of Prague, in the collections of the National Museum of the heroic defense of Sevastopol in Sevastopol Art Museum . MP Kroshitskogo , Simferopol Art Museum , the memorial complex " 35th Coastal Battery " in Feodosia and museums of Odessa, in many private collections in Ukraine, Russia and Western Europe. Very soon work Zenobia Filippova will meet with the audience in the gallery " Art Boulevard ».