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Valeriy Kokurin Grigorievich
(b. 1930)
Valery
Kokurin - one of the creators of a unique Vladimir school of
painting. It originated in the late 1950s, and was opposed
to the official art of those years. The canvases of artists
were notable for bright decorative, sonorous color, for deep,
rich stroke. In planted articles Kokurin was called "abstract
artist", "cosmopolitan", "impressionist." There were cases
when the curators removed his works before the exhibition.
But, notwithstanding the sinuosities of life, the artist has
not changed his palette, retaining their identity. His
canvases attracted by their surprising, not adopted in those
years style of painting, by deep poetry, open polyphony of
colors. Themes of his works were the unique nature of the
Vladimir region, villages and small towns with their ancient
streets and colorful bazars and monuments of ancient
architecture - everything that is filled with a quiet life
of the province, with its powerful folk culture.
The artworks of the painter are in the collections of the
State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum in Murom
Historical and Art Museum, in the Vladimir Historical and
Art Museum-Reserve, as well as in private collections around
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