Victor
Mefodievich Zyryanov

The poster. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.

Born in 1931 in Perm. In 1951 he graduated from one of the oldest in the country Zagorskoe art school. Came back to Perm with a master of Alfano paintings. This is a rare specialty of the artist-designer, specializing in decorative and monumental painting of residential interiors.

Working since 1953 at the art Fund, Zyryanov actively engaged in visual agitation. They made numerous orders for the decoration of streets and squares of the city, cultural centers and kindergartens. A lot of work Zyryanov and poster, preferring a political poster as the most effective form of modern propaganda.

First time poster Perm was shown in the zonal exhibition, 1969 in Chelyabinsk, which exhibited the work of Zyryanova "For peace" and "Save the monuments". Even then, Zyryanov announced himself as an artist, good sense of the specifics of the poster.

In 1970, Danny was on the suburban creative dacha "Chelyuskinskaya", where he worked in the Studio of poster artists. Acquaintance and exchange of experience with artists of different regions and provinces of the country has yielded results. The results of this creative assignment was to participate in the exhibition "Artists of poster, XXIV Congress of the CPSU" in Moscow (1971), and the second all-Russian exhibition of poster in Leningrad (1972), which exhibited a poster Zyryanova "the Task of the ninth five-year plan is workable".

In 1974, the artist visited the ancient cities of the Kama region: Cherdyn and Usolye, at the largest potash plant Solikamsk and Berezniki. Under the impression of this trip, he created a new work, which was represented by poster art of the Urals at the fourth zonal exhibition in Ufa (1974): "the Potassium - salt of the earth", "Through the ages - to the stars."

(From the article Alexander Ivanov)