Valery
Vsevolodovich Kapterev

Kazakhstan • 1900−1981

Biografía e información

Painter.Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.

First professional steps Kapterev did on the eve of the revolution in private art Studio; then, since 1918, in his biography was painting Department of VKhUTEMAS, studying Alexander Shevchenko. Roitenberg, describes how, as a sophomore, Kapterev made his first trip to manivshy mystery and romanticism of Central Asia. A young painter, just asked for an assistant to the land reclamation going on an expedition. Subsequently, the cooperation with different kinds of researchers has become a "signature" technique Kapterev — in 1928 he, together with the botanists went to Gagarskoye and Zailiyskiy Alatau, in 1930 — in the high altitude expedition to Kazakhstan, and the year became at the time a geologist, then was involved in the study of the Pamirs and Tajikistan. Everywhere drew. By this time he managed to participate in the creation of a "Shop painters" and go from it in the already mentioned company "Genesis". Impressions of the East and Crimea were for Kapterev extremely productive even in the last decades of his life in his songs not just any antique, archaic motifs — "human Life", "the Archaic George", "Shell, mussels and algae", "Reading ancient authors (the olive Branch)".

But many early things have not survived. "Complained that even in the Kazakh art gallery, where he gave most of the paintings and leaves, the main destroyed, — says in the pages of his book, Roitenberg. In the end, long-excavation in the attic room where he lived and worked the painter, among the materials of ethnographic character documentary depicting the nature and customs of the inhabitants of the districts Anisa, Tarbagatay, the banks of the Syr Darya, was lucky to come across two paintings of the early 1930s that are now in the state Tretyakov gallery". In addition to a small number of pre-war works Kapterev, as well as "Autumn" and "Alpine meadows" written in the forties, today known mainly by those of his canvases and cardboards, that date back to the Khrushchev "thaw" and subsequent decades. By the time the first and, as it turned out, only during the life of a solo exhibition already took place in Alma-ATA in 1943. And a new one was not expected. Temporary exclusion from the creative Union "formalism" had little effect on creativity Kapterev. And it was more of a preventive measure: in any overly politicized art groups Kapterev – romantic, addicted to the prose of Alexander green, music and poetry (his wife, the poetess Lyudmila Oknazova, has made its modest contribution to the formation of the "thaw" literature), — was not. At the same time Kapterev did not stay aside from actual at the time of the debate between physicists and lyricists, as well as from experiments in the field of synthesis of science and art — just broke these themes in his work is very individual. The title of his picturesque things of the turn of 1950-1960-ies may serve to illustrate the interest of the artist to the present, and eternity at the same time: "Math space", "Unity of opposites", "Reading the theory of relativity"...

(From the article Sergey Safonov, "Picturesque formula" time magazine "Our heritage")

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