Yegorov Yuriy

Sea 49x59 cm, сanvas, oil
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Egorov’s sea is depicted very close to the frame of the picture. It often occupies most of the canvas. The artist tends to a special angle, which provides a top view, which captures a small area of the coastal edge and a very narrow strip of sky. Due to this approximation (which often has an effect similar to that of an operator’s camera), you can directly look at its texture and feel the “flesh”, “fabric”, “layering” (if you use the insightful poetic characteristics of Arseniy Tarkovsky) of water.

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Date of Birth: 1926
Place of residence: Odesa

Yuriy Yegorov (January 27, 1926, Stalingrad, USSR – October 12, 2008, Odessa, Ukraine) – one of the most prominent Ukrainian artists of the second half of the twentieth century, a classic of the Odessa school of painting. He was engaged in easel and monumental painting, graphics, created tapestries, ceramics, stained glass, mosaics.

Yegorov was born in Stalingrad. My parents were ballet dancers. The personality of a sensitive boy was formed under the influence of romantic musical theater, which manifested the sublime state of man, which will later become the defining quality of the heroes of the artist’s paintings. In Yegorov’s work he manifested himself in the appeal to monumental techniques: painting, mosaics, tapestries.

In 1941, together with the troupe of the Odessa Opera House, the Yegorov family was evacuated to Tashkent, and then moved to Krasnoyarsk. There he met Kyiv artists Stepan Andriyovych Kyrychenko and Zinaida Volkovytska, who became his first teachers.

At the age of 16, the novice artist joined the Union of Artists of Krasnoyarsk. Returning to Odessa in 1946, Yegorov was immediately admitted to the fourth year of the art department of the art school, where he studied in the studio of Professor Theophilus Freerman.

In 1948 he entered the Leningrad State Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I. Repin at the Academy of Arts of the USSR. As a fourth-year student, he moved to the fourth year of the Faculty of Monumental Painting of the Higher School of Art and Industry. V. Mukhina, where his teachers were KL Johanson, GO Rublev, GA Savinov.

In 1955, Yegorov moved to Odessa, where until 1957 he taught at the Odessa Art School. MB Grekov, was rector of the Odessa Academy of Arts (1995-1997).

From the beginning of the 1960s, creative youth gathered around Yegorov, which later formed “Odessa nonconformism.” In fact, Yegorov was not a nonconformist, but in every way helped and supported young artists who chose a difficult path to confront the system. It was Yegorov who clearly posed the question of the Odessa school of painting and formed its basic postulates, thus becoming both the brightest representative and theorist of this trend.

Participant of numerous domestic and foreign art exhibitions of painting, graphics and monumental art. Since 1958 he has been a member of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR, and in 1989 he was awarded the title of “Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR”. People’s Artist of Ukraine (2008). After the artist’s death, in June 2009, a hall of permanent exhibition of his works was opened in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Odessa.

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