Vladimir
Alekseevich Chursin

Russia • 1938−2008

Biography and information

Born in 1938 in Vladivostok.

In 1961 he graduated from the Ural Polytechnic Institute. S. M. Kirov in 1961, but on a speciality never worked.

Since 1962 – participant of professional exhibitions. As a muralist is the author of numerous projects of common artistic solution for the buildings and facilities of the Ural cities of Ekaterinburg, Tyumen, Magnitogorsk, Kurgan, etc., as well as the author and artist of monumental-decorative works - mosaics, paintings, works on metal, etc.

Since 1970 - member of the Union of artists of Russia.

The main creative specialty – easel painting: painting, still life, portrait.

Art V. Chursina full of happy feeling and poetic power over life in all its manifestations. Direct perception, the artist replaces the sign of celebration, a festive game or a holiday, easily immersing the audience in the spirit of dances, beauty pageants, resort pleasures and the famous Parisian variety show. As an experienced Director, he builds complex scenes, it fills the image with fierce emotional power, burnopedia element of paints, supplies ironic slogans, trying to evoke the feeling of newfound and burgeoning freedom, fullness and serenity of being. The artist shows us the joy of rapprochement with the infinite material of the art of past eras. In this imaginary, literary and historical characters, the heroes of paintings by many different authors so familiar to the audience contemporaries are on an equal footing and even engage in explicit interaction.

Like many artists of his generation, V. Chursina attracted to stories and images of the parable, the eternal theme in art. He offers the viewer his soverei Danae, judgment of Paris, the fall of Icarus, a name of Venus, mostly paradoxical and ironic. In these works, irony becomes the dominant tone and feels like a way of protection from other people's misunderstanding and unfriendliness. Ironic lyrics masquerade transformations felt in another favorite subject is the Nude.

Interesting exquisitely elegant still lifes, lush Crimean landscapes, portraits of people impressed the author. In General, the artist appears not as the end, but as a complex, constantly evolving process, in which he tries to accommodate the whole world around us, its beauty, its fascinating nepoznannogo.

V. Chursina are in museums and private collections in various cities of Russia and abroad - in France, Holland, Germany.