Modern artist Bocharov Sergey Petrovich: biography, creativity and interesting facts

The modern Russian artist Sergei Bocharov, as his creative motto, chose the aphorism attributed to Aristotle: "Art is meant for humanizing human feelings." This law obeys all the pictures of this author.

Biography of the artist Sergei Bocharov

The birthplace of the artist is the Novosibirsk region, Bagan station. The year of birth in different sources is indicated differently. In one case is 1953, in the other - 1963. Birthday in all cases one - September 27.

His father - Bocharov Petr Tarasovich, a hero and a disabled veteran - had a talent: he was able to masterly represent animals using only one line. So, without taking off the pencil, he could immediately draw such animals as a horse, a hare and a swan.

Only after training in the school Bocharov Sergei was able to learn to draw better than his father.

The first saw the craving of his son to paint his mother. She was a simple peasant woman from the collective farm. Every day Lyubov Andreevna set before her son the task of drawing a new drawing. Even in his children's works, Sergei was able to depict a duck or a tree very naturally.

At the age of seven, he was sent to Yenakiyevo, where his aunt lived, so that he could attend an iconic circle at the House of Pioneers. The circle was headed by the talented teacher Grinenko Ivan Filippovich. Of all the pupils, he managed to grow artists.

After graduating from high school, Bocharov Sergey tried to continue his education in Simferopol College, but he could not write a dictation on a positive evaluation, because for this it was necessary to know the rules of the Ukrainian language well.

Only the following year he managed to pass competitive examinations at the Krasnodar Art College.

In the future, the famous Russian artist Bocharov Sergey Petrovich improved his ability to draw in the Paris studio Nadi Leger and the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. In addition, he studied at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography.

On the artist's work

Sergei Bocharov - an artist who was repeatedly invited to participate in filming motion pictures. His name can be found in the credits to 18 movies. He was an artist in "Stalker", "Fun of the young", "Childhood Themes" and many other films.

Among his works you can find portraits, landscapes, still lifes. A lot of attention Bocharov Sergey Petrovich devotes easel painting, writing group portraits of our contemporaries.

This artist has a strong temperament, strength of spirit and gift of a colorist. Connoisseurs note his sense of form, the accuracy of the drawing, the ability to work in various genres.

His works are distinguished by realism, profound ideology, sincere patriotic service to the Russian people. All this brings them together with the work of the Wanderers.

In his works Bocharov Sergei managed to convey the spirit of our time, which inherent mistakes. In his paintings, a deep seal of the modern era is visible.

Participation in foreign exhibitions

In Italy, every five years there are international competitions, where the best picture of Venice wins.

Bocharov Sergey arrived in Venice and for three months wrote a canvas, where he painted one of the churches on the Grand Canal. With this work he took part in the competition.

The members of the jury he was named the first artist who portrayed crying such a sunny place as Venice.

For this work the author was awarded the Grand Prix. The very first Russian artist awarded this prize was Aivazovsky.

Sergei Bocharov, whose paintings are not only in Russian museums, is known outside Russia. Some of his works can be found at a foreign exhibition or in a private gallery and a collection of German, Japanese, Korean, Italian, French, Norwegian or American art collectors.

Portrait art

Botcharov often prefers portrait painting. In 1989, he painted a portrait of the Norwegian king Olaf, in 1987 - the North Korean president Kim Il Sung, in 1989 - J. Versace and P. Raban, in 1977 - Elton John, in 1980 - Vladimir Vysotsky, in 1981 - Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, in 1991 - L. Pavarotti.

This is not a complete list of persons who addressed him for writing a portrait.

Reviews of portraits

Pavarotti, assessing his portrait, said that Bocharov has a brilliant technique of painting and a philosophical character.

In his portrait Pavarotti sees a passionate spiritual impulse. It shows how it can be. The viewer sees the image of a harmonious personality with feelings and meditations.

Pavarotti claims that he will have to reach the ideal portrayed for the rest of his life.

Vysotsky recalled that the first time he had to pose for a portrait. The picture had a definite influence on the musician's work.

The artist literally dug into it, according to Vysotsky, while making not just an ordinary portrait, and recreating the whole life picture, bringing together the people's view of his life and work.

The portrait allowed Vysotsky to look at himself from the other side.

About the achievements of the artist

Bocharov is a member of two Russian Unions, both artistic and cinematic. He has three international Grand Prix awards for his works in Paris (1989), Venice (1991) and Naples (2002).

In addition, in France in 2011 he was awarded the "Golden Brush" - one of the most prestigious awards in the world of artists.

He held several dozen solo exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
His works were repeatedly exhibited at the Central House of Artists, the Museum "Red Chambers", at the exhibitions of the Federation Council and the State Duma, in the International Trade Center, in the presidential Administration.

With his personal exhibitions, the artist in the period from 2002 to 2004 traveled through the Siberian expanses, visited Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Surgut, Ishim, Tobolsk, Omsk, Nefteyugansk, Noyabrsk.

In 2001, he held a solo exhibition on the Nizhny Novgorod land, in 1998 and 2001 - in Rostov. With his works he also visited Yaroslavl, Ryazan, the cities of the Crimean peninsula.

Abroad, the artist was exhibited in France, Italy, the USA, Norway.

Bocharov is a professor of painting. His lectures were listened to by VGIK students, Italian and Austrian young artists.

Reviews about Bocharov's work

At the opening of Bocharov's solo exhibition in the capital of Italy, many laudatory words were heard from the famous film director F. Fellini. He called the work of the artist an example of a highly professional and convincing modern pictorial art.

Fellini remembered how, in Venice, he, being a member of the jury, voted for the picture of Bocharov, and as a result, the author was awarded the Grand Prix.

Venice on the canvas was very beautiful in the major sunset, she seemed to cry, than touched the hearts of the members of the competitive jury.

Bocharov, according to Fellini, was able to take all the best from the Italian artists who created in the Renaissance, and now the Italian youth learn from him.

The director presented the artist with a tailcoat inherited from his grandfather, so that Bocharov could open more and more vernissages in it.

Painting "Unequal Marriage"

A series of paintings by Bocharov "They" opened with a large canvas called "Unequal Marriage", written in 1989.

The painting depicts the Kremlin Palace of Facets , the hall of power of the tsar. When you look at it, you feel the space drift into the depth to the rhythm created by the giant semicircle of arches. There is a unification of the earthly world and the heavenly world (painting).

The artist Bocharov Sergey Petrovich built the canvas composition using the principle of a triangle. At the top of the composition, in which the golden-red color prevails, is the image of the God of Sabaoth, who holds the infant of Christ, such is the painting of the interior.

The next series consists of disciples of Christ - the apostles. The third collected princes and kings, who, for centuries, have saved the riches of our land.

In the triangular base are representatives of the fourth row. They sold, plundered and disorganized the great power.

Filled with rich treats, a plentiful table is surrounded by well-known faces, constantly flickering on television screens and in print media. The main thing for these people is what the common people call a "feeder".

Under a young, beautiful and rich bride dressed in Russian costume of the nineteenth century, it means a native country. Former US President George W. Bush - a symbol of Western democracy - is depicted as a dry old groom.

The bride looks hopefully at a small company, which includes patriots who have remained faithful to their Motherland. In the waiter serving patriots, the person of the author of the work is guessed.

About family life

About his wife Bocharova - Galina Ivanovna, born in 1954 - it is known that she is a graduate of the Krasnodar Art College, and then the State Art Institute. VI Surikov. She is known as a graphic artist and painter.

One of the children Bocharovyh - Alexander - fought in Afghanistan, where he was killed. Besides him, 16 children were brought up in the family.