Video: "The Greats Behind Desks": Timeless Humor from Soviet Illustrator Viktor Chizhikov
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Victor Chizhikov is an infinitely talented artist. His illustrations are well known to us from childhood. Uncle Fyodor and the cat Matroskin, Aibolit and Barmoley, even the Olympic Bear - all of them were born by his imagination and to this day remain loved by both kids and adults. Another facet of the artist's work is cartoons and humorous illustrations. We decided to remember the mental cycle "Great at the desks".
Illustrators who paint for children are perhaps the most cheerful people. Never discouraged, they are immersed in magical good worlds, where real values reign - friendship and mutual assistance, and good always triumphs over evil.
The creative biography of Viktor Chizhikov is very rich and varied: the cartoonist-illustrator worked in such major publications as "Funny Pictures" and "Murzilka", "Crocodile" and "Around the World", "Young Guard", "Ogonyok" … Created drawings for children books. Publishing houses "Malysh", "Children's Literature", "Fiction" and many others have collaborated with him for many years. It is very difficult to remember all the books illustrated by Viktor Chizhikov, because their count has long since gone up to dozens.
The real passion in the life of Viktor Chizhikov is cats. In numerous interviews, the artist likes to talk about funny cases that happened to his pets. So, for example, one of his favorites adored potato pancakes and, going to the dacha, Victor specially fried a tasty dish in order to share a meal with a four-legged friend. And another cat named Chunka inspired the artist to start work on a series of illustrations "Cats of Great People".
By the way, it should be noted that in art, creative "unions" artists and cats - Not unusual. More about the friendship of people and the purr - in the project The Untamed Species.
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