Khokhlov, Ivan Ivanovich

Parents: Ivan Nikolaevich Khokhlov, Ph.D., associate professor of the Institute VZIIT (Moscow), art critic, author of an article on the work of S. T. Konenkov , with whom he was personally acquainted. Mother Regina Yuryevna Khokhlova (nee Snegireva) is the granddaughter of Professor V.F. Snegirev .

Ivan Khokhlov began to paint at the age of three. He studied at the children's art studio (1957-1959) with the teacher V. A. Voronin. The first publication of Ivan Khokhlov - the drawing "Artists on the Moon" - in the magazine " Murzilka " in 1959. At the age of 14, he suffered severe polio . He graduated from high school No. 145 with a gold medal.

In 1966, Ivan Khokhlov entered the Moscow Polygraphic Institute as a graphic artist, graphic designer, and graduated in 1972. On the recommendations of A. Sidorov, D. Bisti and M. Alpatov, he was admitted to the "adult" section of the Moscow Union of Artists in 1973. The development of the artist was influenced by the masters of Russian iconography - Feofan Grek , Andrei Rublev , Dionysius ; Russian artists of the early 20th century - M. Kandinsky, A. Filonov, M. Vrubel, western - S. Boticelli, A. Modigliani, P. Brueghel, I. Bosch, S. Dali ^[1] .

From 1972 to 1992, Ivan Khokhlov worked at the Combine of Graphic Arts (KGI), where he created 87 colored linocuts on the themes of Russian folk and European fairy tales and his own fairy tale in the pictures "Funny Gnomes", which was published in the publishing house "Ilexa" in 1997 . All these years he collaborated with Moscow publishing houses (Children's Book, Contemporary, Youth, Detgiz , Soviet Artist), where books and articles with his illustrations were published. Khokhlov's color linocuts in the 80s were exhibited in the countries of Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Europe.

Khokhlov’s paintings are in museums in Russia (the Museum of Artem, the Museum of the History of Moscow, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of the Moscow City Council), in private collections of M. Rostropovich (five paintings from different series), Ch.Aitmatov (portrait of Father Alexander Me presented to Aitmatov along with the prize “For Connection in Culture”, Dusseldorf, 1998), G. Uranov, A. Shokhin. Abroad - in America, Canada, Japan, Australia, Germany. In England, A. McGeorge has the largest collection of paintings in the Tree of Life series in Europe. 87 colored linocuts were donated by the artist of the Shushenskaya Picture Gallery. From these engravings a traveling exhibition was compiled, which traveled through Siberia for many years. In 2004, the artist presented the city of Bazarny Karabulak, Saratov Region, with 15 colored linocuts for the museum of local lore, where a separate room was allocated for this exhibition and drawing lessons were held. In 1996, the Cultural Foundation bought from the artist a picture from the series “Remembering Brueghel” ^[2] .

Between 1992 and 2002, 19 personal exhibitions of the artist’s works took place in Moscow ^[3] .

• 1992 year. State Museum of N. Ostrovsky, Humanitarian Center “Overcoming” in 1992. The first solo exhibition ^[2] .
• 2002 year. Gallery "Pines" (Office of the President of the Russian Federation). Personal exhibition.
• 2005 year. Linocut exhibition at the Bulgakov House ^[2] .
• 2007 year Library of Foreign Literature M.I. Rudomino. “Pony and Bunny on the island of fairy tales” ^[4] .
• year 2012. Gallery "Pine". ^[5] .

• "Ponies and Bunnies on the island of fairy tales." Publishing house "Styhira", 2007. Text and illustrations by Ivan Khokhlov. The book was written in 2004-2006.
• "King Cat". Izvestia Publishing House, 2010. Text and illustrations by Ivan Khokhlov. The book was written in 2008-2009.
• "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Izvestia Publishing House, 2010. The Brothers Grimm, illustrations by Ivan Khokhlov, were made in the late 70s.
• The album "Illustrations to Russian folk and European tales." Izvestia Publishing House, 2010. Illustrations for various fairy tales made in the 70-80s and 90s.
• "A Tale in the Pictures of Ponies and Bunnies." "Write a fairy tale." Izvestia Publishing House, 2010. The album contains all the paintings from the author’s fairy tale, created between 1998 and 2003. At the end of the book there is a page with rulers, so that the child himself can write a fairy tale from the pictures.
• "Gingerbread Man", a Russian folk tale. Izvestia Publishing House, 2011. Illustrations by Ivan Khokhlov, year of creation 1995-1996.
• “The Cockerel and the Beanseed,” a Russian folk tale. Izvestia Publishing House, 2011, reprint (Children's Literature, 1982). Illustrations by Ivan Khokhlov.
• Hans Christian Andersen "The Snow Queen." Izvestia Publishing House, 2011. Black and white engravings by Ivan Khokhlov (from an unpublished diploma, 1973). Cover - Ivan Khokhlov, author's technique, 1980.
• Alexey Tolstoy "Pinocchio". Izvestia Publishing House, 2011. Text adapted by Alexey Tolstoy. On the cover there is a colored linocut of Ivan Khokhlov (published by the KGI), inside are pencil illustrations of Ivan Khokhlov, 1982.
• Book-album of illustrations for the tale of Alan A. Milne “Winnie the Pooh and everything, everything, everything ...” Izvestia Publishing House, 2012, engravings by Ivan Khokhlov of different years (published in the KGI)
• Author's fairy tale in the pictures "Funny Dwarves". Izvestia Publishing House, 2013. Engraving illustrations by Ivan Khokhlov of different years.

At the end of the book there is a page with rulers, so that the child himself can write a fairy tale from the pictures.

• Official site. http://ivanart2.narod.ru
• Interview with the artist ^[6] .