Yuri Bosco
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| Born | Yuri Ivanovich Bosco 24 September 1930 Leningrad Art and Industry Academy |
Yuri Ivanovich Bosco (Russian: Ю́рий Ива́нович Боско) (24 September 1930 – 4 February 2019) was a Russian artist, an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1963) and People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2006).[1]
Early life
Bosco was born on 24 September 1930 in
German invasion of Russia in 1941, Bosco's mother sent him to live with her sister in Samarkand. There his early drawings showed talent and his aunt enrolled him in art school.[2]
Education
Later he studied in Tashkent and Moscow. In 1956 he was graduated from the
Leningrad Art and Industry Academy (named, at that time, in honor of Worker and Kolkhoz Woman sculptor Vera Mukhina
, and thus often called the Mukhina Academy during this time) with degrees in Monuments and Decorative Painting.
Bosco was admitted to the
Union of Soviet Artists. Despite this recognition he elected not to move to the capital but to remain on the Volga, living and working in Volgograd, Samara, and Tolyatti, where he executed his most famous works, although he did finally move to Moscow to work and teach in 1978.[2]
Works
Bosco painted many
USSR
, including "Workday Life at the Volga Hydroelectric Station", "Above the Volga", "The Volzanka", and "The Common People".
Bosco's monumental works include:
- Prometheus, a large
- A mosaic in Lenin Memorial Center in Ulyanovsk.
- The composition Energy for the People in the Volga Hydroelectric Station.
- The painting Labor Hall of Fame in the Volga Automobile Plant in Tolyatti.
- And other paintings, mosaics, and stained glass works in Samara, Tolyatti, and other cities.[2]
After the
collapse of the Soviet Union, Bosco turned more to portrait painting. Among his works are portraits of the architects Levitan and Pryadihina, the artists Egidisa and Nazarova, a series of portraits of scientists, geologists, and faculty of Moscow State University, and the painting "O Days of Harsh Sacred Memory", a portrait of frontline medical orderly Mary Rokhlina executed for the 60th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War
.
Before you start to work on the portrait, it is necessary not only to meet the subject, but to know him, to love, to understand...
— Yuri BoscoSt. Petersburg, Samara, Tolyatti, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, and abroad. His work has been presented to the public in Germany, Poland, the United States, Britain, France, Japan, China, and Bulgaria as well as many Russian cities. In 2006, the Central House of Artistsin Moscow hosted a joint exhibition of works by Bosco and his daughter, Anna Bosco.In 1978, Bosco was appointed a professor of drawing at Moscow Architectural Institute.[1]
In 2005, Natalia Dolinskaya published a coffee table book retrospective of Bosco's works.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Высокие награды и звания России" [High Honors and Awards of Russia]. Culture (Культура). 16 August 2006. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2015. (in Russian)
- ^ a b c d e Hope Zhiltsova (8 November 2005). "Свет радости" [The Joy of Light]. Teacher's Newspaper (Учительская газета). Retrieved 19 January 2015. (in Russian)
- ^ Vadim Kondratiev (18 December 2011). "Памятники Тольятти, часть вторая" [Monuments of Tolyatti, Part Two]. Vadim Kondratiev's Photoblog: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Samara Region. Retrieved 18 January 2015. (in Russian)
