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| First Name | Gennady |
| Last Name | Miznikov |
| Born | 1933-03-12 |
| Country | Russia |
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Gennady Miznikov was born in 1933.
Member of Russian Academy of Arts.
Gennady Sergeevich!
You are a contemporary Giotto!
(From the Book of Impressions,1983)
Last turbulent years sum up many phenomena of our life and culture. But if you are going to be 60 and if your creative life has gone through the periods of the thaw, stagnation and perestroika, then, I think, it suffices to tell the story of my time and myself.
I was born in 1933 in the town of Orekhovo-Zyjevo of Moscow Region. I went to the Art School attached to Dulievo China Factory and got a profession of a painter for china. Then I graduated from the Leningrad Higher Art-Industrial School named after V.G. Mukhina, the department of Monumental Painting.
Being a student and traveling around provincial Russia I got a true notion of life and of remains of once great culture. When I returned to my native town the surroundings so well familiar and so close from childhood became the typical personification of life for me, the theme of my many works.
In 1958 I made my debut at the All-Union Art Exhibition in Moscow with the picture Children on a Zavalinka. It was a success, and I found myself in the very midst of events of those days known as the thaw. Nowadays, from the distance of 30 years long, one can see that the artists of the 60-ies were restoring the links with traditions of Russian School of painting, they were drawing the bridges in the broken chain of Russian Culture. It seemed to me then that we had to save our history from falsification first of all. On my first authors emoluments I bought wooden finished panels and assembled a house on my fathers land. It still serves me as a studio. I began to work at a series of pictures. Strike, Mayovka, Revolution were painted almost simultaneously and went through all the battles characteristic of that time.
After working on historical items I started to look at the contemporary life with different eyes. There were painted Summer and Winter. But the thaw turned unwittingly into the stagnation. Art exhibitions agulred some semi-official character. At that time I created The 9th May and The 26th October.
My views on art have changed little in the course of my creative life. I believe that conception of beauty is given to us by Nature itself and is as permanent as a human being. But every piece of time has its own priorities. For some reason or other abstract thinking is the nature of the man who found more freedom. With perestroika and a new free life avanguard, the art of aging civilization, came forward. I myself wouldnt like to hurry to this new life. The problems of censorship we had had in the time of the stagnation, and out of which we had found the way however that may be they are just nothing compared to that of the problems of market. The thesis saying that art is born in captivity, gets stronger in struggle and dies under freedom might be true. It might be the right thesis for Russian art, for Russian school of painting.
I dont think Russian school of painting ended in the 19th century. It continues living., being the deepest on a world scale, and the most professional, rich in various traditions. And may be now our school is to get firmly established in the struggle for the market. May be, everything may happen. Lets hope.
February, 14, 1993.
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Gennady Miznikov was born in 1933.
Member of Russian Academy of Arts.
Gennady Sergeevich!
You are a contemporary Giotto!
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