His paintings and icon paintings are known throughout the world. The works of this Russian artist of the 20th century are exhibited in museums in Russia, Europe, Japan, America and Korea. He participated in 70 exhibitions. His icons are in many private collections in the world. This is all about the artist Vladimir Volk, whose surname also bears his famous descendant - daughter, who is a police colonel, journalist and writer, head of the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The future Soviet artist and talented icon painter was born in 1939 in the town of Ramenskoye near Moscow, in August, the 4th.
Study
Studied by calling and calling of the heart. In 1964 he became a graduate of Moscow University of Arts, the head of the workshop was V.P. Miturich. Five years later, he brilliantly graduated from the creative department of another institute - Moscow State Pedagogical. The faculty was called artistic and graphic. He was taught by famous personalities:
- A.I. Lactionov
- F. Modors
- G.B. Smirnov
- V.M. Desnitsky.
That is what served as a good basis for the development of the artist’s creative career, which later gained worldwide recognition.
In 1975, he became a member of the International Federation of Artists of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. And after several brilliant exhibitions in the USSR, Wolf received membership in the Moscow Union of Artists.
Art and career
From childhood, Vladimir Alekseevich was attracted by the beauty and naturalness of naive art. At first, he wrote interesting works inspired by folk art and ancient Russian motifs. He painted icons, paintings based on folk tales. In the middle and late period, he turned to abstraction, but did not depart from his main line - primitivism.
One of the Gatchina artists' exhibitions was called “Such a Different Wolf”, which became a continuation of the exhibition of the same name in the Tretyakov Gallery in St. Petersburg (2015). In this name, as if concentrated the diversity of his work. The artist was a real experimenter. He could easily change the technique of work, took up creativity on different textures: canvas, glass, metal. And he also experimented with emotional content, a philosophical meaning, which, through himself, he tried to portray in his works of art.
He’s been in a creative search all his life, and, as critics say, “The variety of the Wolf is incredibly interesting.” It was as if several artists were concentrated in it alone. According to connoisseurs and fans, such masterfulness is inherent in the master, primarily due to his higher art education, which radically distinguishes him from his colleagues in the underground of the capital.
Vladimir Alekseevich was the famous guest icon painter who painted the Church of the Archangel Michael in the late 20th century. The current church is still open to believers in the village of Tikhinichi, Rogachev district, on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
Interesting facts about this work:
- In this temple, about 60 Orthodox icons belong to his pen.
- For this, in 2002 he was awarded from the hands of Patriarch Alexy II the Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir of the third degree.
- In 2007, he was awarded the medal of St. Cyril of Turovsky for painting the temple.
Nonconformist artist Vladimir Volk even in the formation and design of his exhibitions loved order and consistency. Despite the variety of its directions - from graphics to modern sculpture, from primitivism to abstraction, he followed his whole life in creativity to the call of the heart. And he adhered to his own authorial style.
The Wolf himself called art the most difficult work, which involves the consciousness and subconscious of a person and in which real life is reflected. And even in the final work to the end, all this is almost impossible to express. Therefore, according to the nephew of the creator, also the artist Arsen Melitonyan, the Wolf invites every spectator to become a full-fledged co-author of his works. Thus, the viewer, the contemplator of the picture also works - thinks over what he sees, passes through himself, empathizes with the brush.
In November 2015, Vladimir Wolf died. But his works remained, his magnificent icons and unique paintings, the primitive graphics disclosed in his own texts (after all, the artist was also a prose writer and also wrote poetry), published in his own miniature books. All this allowed us to keep in touch with the artist’s work through carefully collected works for the next generations.
