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Pimenov Valery, still life, oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm, 1994


Pimenov Valery
Painter, Creator of historical-революционных paintings, portrait painter, landscape painter. People's artist of Russia (since 1994), member of the Russian Academy of arts. Participant of Republican, all-Union (from 1940), foreign exhibitions (from 1977). PhD (1955), Professor of the Department of painting and composition at the Institute of painting, sculpture and architecture named after.And.E.Repin.

Valery Pimenov was born in 1920 in Cherepovets in the family of a worker. After graduating from high school in 1936 he moved to Leningrad, where he began his career at the plant of polygraphic machines. At the same time the young man was engaged in an art Studio at the Palace of culture named after S. M. Kirov, which was directed by great masters I. I. Brodsky and S. M. Kopeikin. Being a student, Pimenov began to show his works at art exhibitions, and two of them – "Meet tank" and "the Feat of the hero" – was exhibited at the all-Union exhibition "defense of the USSR" (1940). In 1941, after graduating from preparatory classes, Pimenov became a student of the Leningrad Institute of painting, sculpture and architecture named after I. E. Repin. In late 1942, together with the Institute he was evacuated to Samarkand, then was transferred to Zagorsk. During the great Patriotic war he worked in defense-плакатной the team task of the Western front and in the "Windows TASS", Moscow. Classes at the Institute resumed only after the war, where his teachers were I. E. Grabar and V. M. Oreshnikov.

In 1949, Valery graduated from the College course with the diploma work "In the rate of the Supreme command" and continued her studies in graduate school. For the painting "Lenin's words" the young artist was awarded the degree of candidate of arts (1955). Manifested in the early years of interest in history and-революционной the subject and, no doubt, the influence of teachers determined the further path of the young master. In 1957, he paints a picture of "workers' control. 1917", and in 1963-1965 working on the song "Leninists". Practicing the lessons academic teachers, Pimenov carefully collects the field material, which helped him to create reliably compelling images, among them portraits of old Bolsheviks – A. A. Boleskine and M. E. Erofeev, surrounded by the pioneers. From the first steps in the art professionals celebrated his remarkable achievements in painting, drawing and especially the composition. So he enthusiastically works on historic paintings, including "Before the storm" (1965), "Sleepless night of October" and others, exhibited at prestigious exhibitions in Moscow and Leningrad.

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Talking about the initial stage of creativity of V. Pimenov, not to mention internal root relationship of his artistic language with the traditions of the Russian school of painting 1940-1950-х, based on the achievements of Russian realism of the previous time. During this period, when all the individual strengths of V. Pimenov acted as a typical figure of his time. Its historical-революционные paintings involuntarily reminiscent of landmark paintings by his teachers – Oreshnikov and Grabar, contributed to "Soviet Leniniana" and asserting his own artistic method and principles of the picturesque approach to the material, to build a picture based on the "lifelikeness".

1960-е. in the art of Russia were a period of rejection of the existing stereotypes of the software. Any aesthetic platform, as written by one of the researchers of socialist realism, no matter how clearly are its principles minted, historically transient and limited, along with the ideas it generated. And wisdom of the creative personality is expressed first of all in order not to miss this change of orientation, not to remain at the margins of the artistic process. The late 1960-х for V. Pimenova, has become a new stage when it began to unfold his true talent as a brilliant painter, master of landscape and portrait. This does not mean that the artist has abandoned the realistic method. But the changes occurring in art, the movement of the benchmark from "General" to "special", i.e. personal, and clearly read in the works of Vladimir Pimenov.

The development of his pictorial talent, no doubt, contributed to numerous trips around the country. He visits the North and Middle Asia, enthusiastically working on sketchy material. During these years, he makes several trips abroad, visiting Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia. Particularly fruitful was a trip in 1965 to Cuba. In sketches, brought from the "Islands of freedom", was dominated by paintings of the Caribbean, white quays of Havana, peasant huts and roads, going deep into the sugar cane plantations.

Not surprisingly, Pimenov-живописца special event was a trip to Italy in 1966, As many Russian masters who visited this country, Pimenov discovers the beauty of nature in Italy. Devoting his landscapes small and large Italian cities and villages, he is not afraid of clean pure tones, contrasting color combinations. Perhaps it is this new, opened to travel the world "provoked" by the artist for coloristic looseness. One way or another, but it is the living material that is not associated with the usual pictorial tradition, seen as a fresh eye, adopted the position of the author and discovered new horizons of his creativity.

The next three years (1968-1970) V. Pimenov spends in Cambodia, where he was sent by the Ministry of culture of the USSR as a Professor of the Royal University of fine arts. Here he enthusiastically works not only as a teacher but as an artist-пейзажист. Among the Cambodian landscape are: the cycles on the ancient monuments of Khmer culture and modern life of the country. The temples of Angkor monuments X–XIII centuries, lost in the jungle, amaze the viewer with its special mysterious beauty. But the artist refuses the temptation to thoroughly convey all the details of this unusual architecture. The main expressive means to create the image he chooses the flavor ("Bayon Temple", "Bayonne"). On the banks of the Mekong and Bosak Pimenov writes fishing houses on high stilts, floating settlements on the water. The originality of life and nature of this country, the artist dedicates painting "Vietnamese fishermen" (1969). The impressions of your stay in Phnom Penh, he had written and one of the best portraits of this time, "portrait of an Indian teacher" (1969).

In 1970-е, continue trip to Europe. He visits France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands. With an even greater desire travels in his native country. In these years appear the artist's works devoted to Leningrad. Among them are landscape motifs with famous monuments and portraits of cultural figures (O. F. Berggolts, V. I. Strzhelchik, I. P. Vladimirov). In 1971, Pimenov V. achievements were highly appreciated, he was awarded the title of honored artist of the RSFSR, and in 1994 – people's artist of Russia.

A mandatory element of creative activity of V. V. Pimenov is teaching at the Institute of painting, sculpture and architecture named after I. E. Repin (since 1950), where he holds the position of Professor of painting and composition (since 1971). Often, now accompanied by the disciples, he comes home to Cherepovets. Here in the Cherepovets Museum Association was held not one personal exhibition of the master, presented his work in Museum collections of the city.