"Not in my time, I am living." Artist Vladimir Patalakha (1918-2005)

[Tatiana Patalaha]

He was born 95 years ago on July 25 at Feodosii.Risoval with five years.And chalk musical abilities. Before the war did to the Art Institute in Moscow. Reject the medical board (due to disease in childhood had monocular vision). Together with his family survived the occupation of hunger, cold, forced raboty.Posle liberation of the Crimea was in the Army, participated in the restoration of Novorossiysk, as a war veteran, was awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany" . After demobilization in 1948 he entered the School of Music in Simferopol in the vocal otdelenie.Cherez year cold, lost his voice and had to leave school. In 1949 he entered the Simferopol Art School and studied for 5 years at the department of painting, it successfully graduated (he was the best painter). By this time it acquires semey.Tyagi to teaching not bylo.Dlya admission to art workshops needed patronage and "deification "leaders of the Crimean branch of the Union of Artists Ukrainy.Protektsii was not, and worshiped the only artist tenor Mario del Monaco, and even traveled to Moscow at the Bolshoi Theater during a tour of the singer. Already at this time begins to work creatively on plenere.Snachala nothing vyhodit.Isporcheno lot of cardboard ... But he longs to landscapes were by air, it takes about oduhotvorennymi.Tak goda.Odnazhdy in a summer day in 1957, in the morning, the artist came to the mountains, select an appropriate form, set the sketchbook, looked into the distance, to mark the borders of a future landscape. And suddenly, his conscience lit a bright flash! In a moment like scales fell from his eyes, and he knew immediately how and what to delat.Stal work quickly, and after 2 hours the landscape was gotov.Hudozhnik noted that at the time felt a unprecedented strength, and it seemed to him that he can move mountains ... After this amazing event plein-air paintings of the artist took one look and then the quality of which can now be seen in his work. Illumination did not help him in his future work zhizni.A criticized for lack of ideas, and rejected ignorirovali.Kak personality, he was neugoden.Tak proshlo5 let.Za this time the artist had to go 2 times to the Volga and Sura and write a series of landscapes of the Volga. Attitude to his work not menyaetsya.Togda the winter of 1962 the artist's wife - Valeria Fastenko - luck landscapes to Moscow at the Academy of Fine Arts at ekspertizu.K his office invited her academic Porfiry Krylov (Kukryniksy), there has been a professor of painting and Boris Nikolaevich Yakovlev Nicholas autumn - one of the leaders of the Moscow hudfonda.Oni long studied the works, equipment ispolneniya.Chemu something surprised. Landscapes them very ponravilis.Oni started looking for similarities with other artists, for some reason not to modern, and from klassikami.Soshlis on the fact that the manner of performance they most resemble Vasily Polenov. "Well, you see, you like the scenery," - lamented wife of the artist, - "And in the Crimea did not recognize." "So they're idiots in the Crimea, if not recognized," - retorted Krylov.Tut have written a letter of recommendation for membership in the Union of Artists (it survived). It said: "Having got acquainted with the work of Vladimir Ivanovich Patalakha, we found that many of them show his undoubted talent and professional capacity. His small landscapes imbued with a deep sense, a serious and thoughtful attitude to the image of mother nature. artist feels good color and has developed taste ... " On the same day of the works acquired by the Central Procurement Commission KHUDFOND Soviet Union. Their fate neizvestna.Sam artist then very sorry about a bygone time "Birchwood" of the Volga serii.Nikolay Osenev then advised to move to Russia, has promised that will support and that Vladimir Patalakha will be here one of the leading peyzazhistov.Valeriya Petrovna came back from Moscow hope for an early happy changes in the fate muzha.No ... not to bylo.Pismo academics even more embittered nedobrozhelateley.Otkryto oppose they could not. So they took him to work as a freelance artist, giving him carry placards with bags and tsiframi.Hudozhnik not stand it wants and leaves in the summer of 1962 to write beauty of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia, the city Osh.Tam he gets into artistic masterskie.Kak was there seen from the lines of his letter to the Crimea: "Anyone else would have probably hung up, and I live." Soon to Asia him going semya.Iz workshops retired, stopped working creatively and lived as a hermit, not vystavlyal.Pochti of 40 years of one Crimea videl.V not returned at the end zhizni.Zdes in the 90s. wrote a series of still life "Flowers of Crimea." Never complained sudbu.On said: "My fate is not so dramatic, when compared with the fate of hundreds of people in the arts who died in the war or in the Gulag, did not find understanding and alcoholics of despair. I just late rodilsya.Rodilsya I one hundred years ago, would join Peredvizhnikam.Ne at the time I live. "Creativity Vladimir Ivanovich received by genetic lineage of his father, Ivan Leonidovich Patalakha that the artist did not. But a cousin of his father - Ivan Petrovich Kavaleridze, known in Ukraine as a talented sculptor and outstanding kinorezhisser.Vladimir Patalakha died on October 14, 2005 goda.No continue to live his life his already small landscapes, evoking in us the sublime and bright chuvstva.Peyzazhi, portraits and still life paintings of the artist are already in the Kiev Museum of Russian Art, the Kharkiv Art Museum, the Museum of IP Kavaleridze in Kiev, in the house-museum of Vladimir Vysotsky in Moscow, Simferopol Art Museum, the Gallery of Ivan Aivazovsky (the home of the artist ), the Vorontsov Palace, in the Kerch gallery and some in private collections in the CIS and zarubezhya.Voznikla serious idea of ​​the Crimea, Kerch, hudozhnika.Nuzhen patron of the museum, which will give a small room to accommodate ekspozitsii.Zhdem constructive predlozheniy.Imya patron forever will go down in the history of the museum. And the last. An interesting fact is that those who broke the creative life of the artist, in the Crimea has zabyli.Vo any case, among the Crimean masters of their names net.Ironiya fate! But not among the masters of the Crimean and Crimean painter named best 2nd half of the 20th century, Vladimir Patalakha ... The Memorial Museum of the Internet: www.art-plener.com YouTube: "Gallery. Landscapes. Patalakha VI."

[Peter]

Works pretty decent, the scenery is especially good!

[Pavel]

We artists are no good and bad times.

[Tatiana Patalaha]

The visitors of the forum! Changed the website address of the artist Vladimir Palalagi (1918 - 2005): perfect-art.info