Vladimir Sokovnin

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Tatyana Lomovceva

10 October 2020, 17:34

Владимир Соковнин - удивительный художник. Он создает картины, очень похожие на фотографии - настолько талантливо у него это получается.

About the author

Born on June 9, 1955 in Moscow.
Lives and works in Moscow.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (Painting Department, 2012).
Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts (2017).

Merited Artist of Russia (2002), People's Artist of Russia (2012).
Professor (since 2004), Associate Professor (2011).

Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Arts.

Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, Russia (since 1985).

Education:
Graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts at the A.N. Kosygin Moscow Textile Institute in 1982. Advisor Kozlova T.V.

Major projects and works:
Costumes for films: "Magicians" (director Bromberg K. "Odessa Film Studio", 1982), "Kin-dza-dza" (director Daneliya G. "Mosfilm", 1984).
Triptych "Memory" (oil on canvas 150x100, 150x200, 150x100, Museum of the Great Patriotic War at Poklonnaya Hill, 1985).
Portraits: "Russian Beauty" (oil on canvas 150x150, 1993), portrait gallery of "Gazprom" (1994), portrait of the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (oil on canvas 120x100, 1999), Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia (oil on canvas 101x76, 2004), President of Indonesia Megawati Sukarnoputri.
A special place in the artist's work is occupied by portrait and landscape painting.
Participated in the recreation of the painted decorations of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior (2000).

Works are in the collections of the State A.A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts, in the collection of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, the White House USA collection, as well as in state and private collections in China, France, Germany, the USA, and others.

Personal exhibitions: a regular participant in Moscow, regional, republican, all-union, and international exhibitions (since 1976).

State, public, and teaching activities:
Artist at the "Screen" creative association, Central Television, Moscow (1983-1985).
Professor at the Department of Artist-Stagecraft at the Gumanitarny Institut televideniya i radioveschaniya (Humanitarian Institute of Television and Broadcasting) named after Litovchin (since 2004).

State and public awards and prizes:
Medal of the Moscow Union of Artists of Russia (2010), Diploma of the Ministry of Culture (2011), Silver, Gold medals of the Artists Trade Union of Russia (2011, 2015), Medal of the Union of Artists of Moscow "For Merit in the Development of Visual Arts" (2015), Gold Medal of the Union of Artists of Russia (2015), Honorary Certificate of the President of the Russian Federation (2016), Order of Friendship (2018).

Awards of the Russian Orthodox Church:
Order of the Venerable St. Sergius of Radonezh, III, II degree (2001, 2005).

Awards of the Russian Academy of Arts:
Diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts (2005).
Medals "To the Worthy" from the Russian Academy of Arts (2015, 2016).
Silver Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (2016).