Seleznev, Vladimir Ivanovich (artist)

Vladimir Ivanovich Seleznev was born on August 3, 1928 in Leningrad. In 1947 he entered the first year of painting at the Faculty of Painting of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. Repin . He studied with Mikhail Platunov , Ivan Stepashkin, Peter Belousov , Yuri Neprintsev .

In 1953, Seleznev graduated from the Institute in the studio of Professor Rudolf Frentz with the qualification of an artist. Thesis - historical picture "VI Congress of the RSDLP" ^[2] . In the same issue as Vladimir Seleznev, the institute graduated from Valeria Larina , Nikolai Galakhov , Vladimir Andreev , Orest Betekhtin , Leonid Kabachek , Mark Klonsky, Nikolai Lomakin, Konstantin Molteninov , Georgy Pesis , Peter Smukrovich, Pavel Utkin, Solomon Epstein and other famous paintings of the future Leningrad .

Vladimir Seleznev participated in exhibitions since 1951. He painted historical and genre compositions, landscapes, portraits, still lifes. In 1949 he was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Artists . Seleznev’s creativity is characterized by the use of various techniques and expressive means, the choice of which was determined by the specific tasks facing the artist. The development went towards enhancing the decorativeness and locality of color while maintaining the constructive role of the pattern. In the portrait genre, gravitated to an in-depth psychological description of the image. Among the works created by Seleznev, the paintings “In the Hills” ^[3] (1951), “Early Spring” ^[4] (1954), “Engineers” ^[5] (1960), “Noble Gurtovods” ^[6] (1961), “Divers G. M. Alekseenko and L. G. Molchanov, drummers of communist labor” ^[7] (1964), “Return” ^[8] (1967), “Portrait of a Girl with a Bear”, “Portrait of the Artist M. G. Platunov " ^[9] (both 1972)," The day before. Nevsky Prospect ” ^[10] (1980) and others.

Seleznev Vladimir Ivanovich died on March 5, 1991 in Leningrad, at the sixty-third year of his life. His works are in museums and private collections in Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, USA, Japan and other countries.

• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1951. Catalog. - L: Lenizdat, 1951. - P.19.
• Spring exhibition of works by Leningrad artists. Catalog. - L: Izogiz, 1954. - S.18, 45.
• Two hundred years of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. Exhibition catalog . - L.-M.: Art, 1958. - P.200.
• Soviet Russia. Republican art exhibition. Catalog. - M: Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR, 1960. - P.74.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1961. Catalog. - L: Artist of the RSFSR, 1964. - P.36.
• Leningrad. Zone exhibition. - L: Artist of the RSFSR, 1965. - P.48.
• An exhibition of works by Leningrad artists dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. Catalog. - L: Artist of the RSFSR, 1972. - P.9.
• The catalog of works of artists of the Russian Federation donated to organizations and cultural institutions (1963-1971) . - M: CX of the RSFSR, 1972. - S.97, 99-100.
• Fine art of Leningrad. Exhibition catalog. - L: Artist of the RSFSR, 1976. - P.29.
• Portrait of a contemporary. Fifth exhibition of works by Leningrad artists in 1976. Catalog. - L: Artist of the RSFSR, 1983. - P.19.
• Directory of members of the Union of artists of the USSR. Volume 2. - M: Soviet artist, 1979. - S. 328.
• Zonal exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1980. Catalog. - L: Artist of the RSFSR, 1983. - P.22.
• Lenyashin V. Searches for the artistic truth // Artist. 1981, No. 1. S. 8-17.
• Lewandowski S. Painting on the Leningrad Zonal // Art. 1981, No. 2. S.60.
• Directory of members of the Leningrad organization of the Union of artists of the RSFSR. - L: Artist of the RSFSR, 1987. - P.116.
• Ivanov S.V. Unknown Socialist Realism. Leningrad school. - St. Petersburg: NP-Print, 2007. - P.369, 391, 393–397, 400–402, 404. ISBN 5-901724-21-6 , ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7 .
• Anniversary Directory of graduates of the St. Petersburg Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. Repin of the Russian Academy of Arts. 1915-2005. - St. Petersburg: "Primrose", 2007.

• List of painters of the Leningrad Union of Artists

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• Leningrad school of painting. Essay on the story.
• Chronology of the Leningrad School of Painting.