"I, of course, will be back ": the image of Vladimir Vysotsky in painting and sculpture

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

are the last lines written Vladimir Vysotsky just before death. The poet left, leaving a deep mark on this mortal land. Many people remember the "tape-recorder era", when the country laughed and cried along with the heroes of the songs of the poet and the bard. Vysotsky, who during his lifetime knew the love of the whole people, continues to live today, immortalized in the paintings of artists, in the bronze creations of sculptors.

Vysotsky in paintings and graphics

Interest in Vysotsky will not fade for many years to come, as long as there is a generation that remembers his work. He, as a personality of the era, is addressed by contemporary artists of different directions in art, sculptors. The strong-willed character of the poet is the first thing that delights and attracts numerous creators who create a legendary image.

- this is one of the reviews on the site of the Penza artist Bichurin.

Ilyas was never a fan of the bard - he just listened to him, like millions of others living in the Soviet Union. But years later, the artist became imbued with the work of Vysotsky, began to study biography, met friends, with actors who knew Vladimir, and created a series of paintings dedicated to the poet.

This painting by the Samara artist Anna Gorbunova took part in the all-Russian creative competition "The best portrait of V. Vysotsky", and received the main prize of the audience's sympathy. - said the chairman of the Union of Artists I. Melnikov.

This painting by Vladimir Korchinsky is the winner of the all-Russian competition in the nomination "The best portrait - the image of V. Vysotsky 2012".

The artist Ilyas Aidarov, who is called "Mozart in painting" in Kazan, once lived with the poet in the same house on Malaya Gruzinskaya, 28. Years later he created a whole series of picturesque portraits of Vysotsky.

This portrait of the poet was painted by the famous Belarusian monumental artist I. V. Radoman. The master of the portrait genre always wrote "on canvas" - without preliminary sketches. That is why Vysotsky's portrait is so "lively" and dynamic. This canvas is kept at Maslovka.

Vysotsky in bronze and granite

In many countries and cities of Russia, where Vysotsky visited with his concerts, the image of the bard is immortalized in monuments to which "the folk path will never grow."

Illustrator, sculptor, friend of Vysotsky - Mikhail Shemyakin created a monumental composition dedicated to the anniversary of the poet's birth. At one time, Mikhail Shemyakin illustrated 42 songs of a friend. The monument was erected in Samara.

This bronze sculpture was installed at the Petrovsky Gate on Strastnoy Boulevard in Moscow on the 15th anniversary of the death of Vysotsky.

And this popularly revered monument is erected in Vladivostok next to the Primorsky Drama Theater. Gorky.

The 6-meter monument to Vladimir Vysotsky was erected in Novosibirsk in 2005 on the 25th anniversary of the poet's death. The inscription on the pedestal reads: "Poets walk with their heels on the blade of a knife, and wound their bare souls in the blood" - truly great words of the poet.

A 4-meter tall bronze sculptural composition dedicated to Vladimir Vysotsky was installed in Odessa near the Odessa Film Studio.

In the capital of Montenegro, Podgorica, Vysotsky was immortalized by the Russian sculptor Alexander Tartynov. The height of the sculpture with a pedestal is 5 meters.

This romantic composition dedicated to Vysotsky and Marina Vladi was created by the sculptor Alexander Silnitsky. Installed near the Bolshoi Ural hotel in Yekaterinburg.

In Dubna, in the city of nuclear physicists, the memory of Vysotsky was immortalized by naming an alley in his honor, on which a monument was erected, erected at the expense of the poet's admirers.

At the opening of the 5-meter monument "Vertical" with a climbing wall in the form of an arch, the chief architect of Kharkov S. Chechelnitsky said:

The popularity of Vladimir Vysotsky as a poet-bard, an actor, as a citizen has no boundaries. He is “a poet doomed to eternity”.

And yet, the main memory of the great poet is poetry and songs. "And ice from below, and from above - toil between …" - his last poetic dedication to Marina Vladi. It still causes conflicting opinions among readers.