Artist Pivovarov Victor Dmitrievich: biography, paintings, photo

Viktor Dmitrievich Pivovarov is a Russian and Soviet artist who can be considered one of the founders of conceptualism in Moscow. At the moment, several cycles of his paintings, being widely known, are exhibited in many cities, including abroad.

General biography

Viktor Pivovarov is a man who tested himself in different kinds of art, but everyone was associated with self-expression. He sought himself everywhere, but not everywhere he found satisfaction: writing did not warm the soul of a man, but the image of his own thoughts on canvas ...

Paint and brush Pivovarov creates a completely different world, and makes it understandable not only for yourself, but for all the others that so often missing from many famous artists. The mood of each picture reflects the author's emotional plan in different periods of his life or in different moments. But invariably the plots of the works find a response and understanding in the hearts of the audience. In a word, in this century his work is very popular, and people of all ages.

Childhood

The future artist was born in 1937 on the night of January 14. Mother brought up the boy alone, but the lack of a strong male hand did not prevent her from raising a son of character. When Viktor was 4 years old, the country started a war. They were evacuated with their mother to the most remote corner of Tatarstan, where there was no connection, no electricity, not even other children. Every day expecting something terrible, that's why the adults almost did not communicate with the child. Pivovarov himself tells about those events with a bitter smile, because even then he was awakened by a small creator. One day in that empty place, little Vitya found in the backyard a couple of dirty rags. The boy gathered them together, washed them, and then from these rags and wooden chocks he built himself a friend - this doll became the boy's little savior from loneliness.

early years

Having survived the war, the young man decided to devote himself entirely to creativity. But I still could not understand which. In 1957, Pivovarov graduated from the Moscow Art and Industry College named after Kalinin. Now his dream is another university, but fate confuses all the cards. Victor submits documents to the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after Surikov, but only heaps all entrance examinations. Having no more options, the guy still goes to a place where he can do art - to the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, where he graduates in 1962.

During his training, Pivovarov Victor meets Paul Dmitrievich Korin, who secretly becomes the teacher of the future artist. Communication gets tied up spontaneously, and also spontaneously the ways of young creative personalities diverge.

I'm not lucky in money, I'm lucky in love

A year after the graduation, Viktor Pivovarov, whose biography takes an interesting turn, meets his future wife Irina. The couple eventually forms an excellent tandem, because Irina, as it turned out, a novice writer practicing writing children's tales, and by chance she does not have an illustrator. Pivovarov Victor with pleasure holds this position and from now on spends almost all his time with his beloved, recognizing her talents closer. In cooperation, many children's books are born, in each of which Irina lays an instructive meaning, and Victor supplemented it with a picture.

The love story of the two talents continues with renewed vigor, and now, in 1966, Irina and Viktor are born the son of Pavel. Happy parents dissolve in caring for the child and in the performance of orders, and no longer joint. As a result, they have less and less time for each other, they begin to lose a common language, and in 1974, in order not to torture either themselves or their son, they decide to divorce.

But the black time for Pivovarov quickly ends after 4 years. In early summer, at one of the exhibitions, he meets a charming art critic named Milena Slavitskaya. A girl comes from the Czech Republic, and came to Moscow as part of her work, so in any case she will have to return to her homeland. But this time Pivovarov Victor just does not let go of his happiness. In 1982, the artist moved from Russia to the Czech Republic to be closer to his new beloved.

Own workshop

In 1967, the artist's main dream is realized - he opens his own studio with the help of one of his good friends David Kogan. And with the acquisition of his own creative studio, Victor Pivovarov, whose paintings until this moment could not be considered a true painting, now truly becomes an artist.

In 1967, his early work in serious painting - a cycle of monotypes "Temptations of St. Antonia ". His first paintings Victor Pivovarov (the artist, now in the full sense of the word) writes with selflessness and with zeal. This is how his own style emerges, which gave impetus to the birth of a whole movement - conceptualism.

The Epoch of Conceptualism

From 1972 to 1976 in Moscow a completely different style of painting was born, which had never been taken seriously. Following Pivovarov in the same style, their famous works were performed by Eric Bulatov and Ilya Kabakov, each work being so characteristic that it was impossible to assign any other genre to the paintings.

In the same genre, the artist Victor Pivovarov paintings and is going to write from now on.

At such rates, in 1979, the very first exhibition of the artist, now a conceptualist, took place. The exhibition receives the creative name "Color, shape, space" characteristic for artists. For the first time at this event, Pivovarov exhibits a completely new cycle "Seven conversations". The main part of the artist's works was exhibited at that time in the Czech Republic. In Russia, the artist gained popularity much later.

Literary Activity

In the years of searching for himself, Victor Pivovarov, whose photo can be seen below, tried many different creative ways, and two of them really touched him alive: painting, which became the work of his life, and writing. With the latter Viktor Pivovarov, an artist, and not a writer, could not for a long time associate himself. And yet some successes in this field man has reached: under his authorship several novels have appeared, such as "The Enamored Agent", "The Gray Notebooks" and "About the Love of the Word and the Image."

Current activities

Currently Victor Pivovarov is an artist who is actively exhibited at the best exhibitions in Russia.

Two diverse exhibitions took place in 2016 in completely different places: one in the Museum of Modern Art, the other in the famous Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. But everyone was equally warmly received by the public.