Sergey Zagraevsky

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Sergey Zagraevsky

Zagraevsky in 2011
Born August 20, 1964(1964-08-20)
Moscow, Russia
Nationality Russia, Israel
Field Painting, art critic
Training Private Studio of Tatiana Mavrina
Movement Close to Naïve art, Primitivism
Awards Honored culture worker of Russia[1]

Professor Dr. Sergey Zagraevsky (Russian: Сергей Вольфгангович Заграевский. Hebrew: סרגיי זגרייבסקי) (born August 20, 1964, Moscow) is a well-known Russian-Jewish painter,[2] architectural historian, writer and theologian.[3]

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[edit] Biography

Zagraevsky was born to architectural historian Wolfgang Kawelmacher (1933–2004) and poet and dramatist Inna Zagraevsky (born 1933). His name may also be transliterated into Hebrew as סרגיי זגרייבסקי, and to Zagrajewski, Sagrajewski, Zagraewski, Zagraevskiy, or Zagraevskij in English.

He began to paint at school and his first teacher was the well-known Russian painter Tatiana Mavrina.[4]

Until the middle 1990s, Zagraevsky studied the scientific problems of system analysis alongside the arts. During this decade, he became a professional architectural historian and theologian while continuing with his painting. In 1998 he began to focus completely on arts, humanities and public activities, using the organizational experience gained as chairman of the Artists Trade Union of Russia, one of the most authoritative artists' organizations in Russia.[citation needed] He also held more than ten personal exhibitions in Moscow and took part in numerous other group ones.

Between 2002–2005 Zagraevsky lectured at the Moscow Institute of Restoration Arts, and he now he gives lections at the Russian University of Intellectual Property and in the Vladimir-Souzdal Museum. The main themes of his architectural history research are ancient Russian white-stone buildings, the early architecture of Moscow and architectural connections between ancient Russia and Romano-Gothic Europe. His doctoral thesis was "North-Eastern Russian architecture from the end of 13th - first third of the 14th century".

Zagraevsky is chief editor of the reference work "United Artists Rating" as well as the author of a number of books on philosophy, theology, the history of architecture together with children's stories and many articles on art critics. He is the founder and curator of "RusArch" - the electronic scientific library on History of Old Russian architecture.[5]

In 1992 he became a doctor of technique then a professor in 2005,[6] and received his doctorate in architecture in 2004, Zagraevsky is also a full member of Russian art critics Academy (since 2001), a member of the AICA (since 2004),[7] a member of Writers union of Russia (since 2001)[8] and an Honored culture worker of Russia (since 2009).[9]

Sergey Zagraevsky

[edit] Art

Zagraevsky's art[10] does not belong to the classic primitive or naïve schools, which includes paintings by Henri Rousseau, Niko Pirosmani and Grandma Moses since neither the formal nor actual parameters of primitive art are met. Instead, his style is best described as "primitivism", a genre which includes the "primitive" paintings of many artists who had an academic apprenticeship and extensive experience in other styles such as Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee. However, there are some differences in Zagraevsky's style; his landscape paintings are very close to the "childish" while only reverse perspective, the absence of chiaroscuro and aerial haze, the relatively accurate portrayal of parts twin his works with the classic plastic of primitive.[clarification needed] Zagraevsky also uses predominantly open colors, which give his paintings exceptional brightness and comparable only to children's painting. There is no humor nor gore, both of which apply to the creativity of children, unless they attempt to draw based on instructions from adults.

Within the last decade, Zagraevsky's works have become slightly more generalized and his paintings more mixed but without detriment to their brightness. Details are drawn less carefully although the works remain "childish", with the hand of an experienced artist visible only in the stability of the stroke, the virtuoso technique of painting and drawing, the compositional and the color balance. A number of recurring "proprietary" features such as a "flattened" sun, squat trees with huge roots, multi-colored water, "album-styled" flowers and windows also appear in these paintings.

In the 1990s Bulat Okudzhava wrote of Zagraevsky:[11]:

When he moves on a picture his fist,
God is at his assist.
God is with him all his way.
That is the painter Sergey.

[edit] Sample works

  • Sergey Zagraevsky. Apple Garden. 18x24 wat.col. 1992.

  • Sergey Zagraevsky. Jerusalem. The Western Wall. 70x100 oil, canvas. 1998.

  • Sergey Zagraevsky. Ukrainian night. 100x80 oil, canvas. 1999.

  • Sergey Zagraevsky. Moscow, Kremlin. 100x100 oil, canvas. 2001.

  • Sergey Zagraevsky. The draught that broke the still-life. 100x80 oil, canvas. 2008.

  • Sergey Zagraevsky. Moscow, Bolshoy Kamenny bridge. 30x21 wat.col. 2008.

[edit] Publications

[edit] History of architecture

[edit] Monographs

[edit] Selected articles

[edit] Theology

[edit] Social philosophy

  • "Third Rome" or "Third world"? (Russian: Третий Рим или третий мир? Справочник «Единый художественный рейтинг», вып. 7. М., 2003. С. 6-12.)
  • The past, present and future of the Jewish nation (Hebrew: על עבר, הווה ועתיד של אומה יהודית, Russian: О прошлом, настоящем и будущем еврейской нации. Электронная публикация. М., 2009.)
  • Death penalty or life imprisonment? (Russian: Смертная казнь или пожизненное лишение свободы? Электронная публикация. М., 2008.)
  • Arts and the fall of Soviet power (Russian: Искусство и гибель советской власти. Справочник «Единый художественный рейтинг», вып. 4. М., 2001. С. 17-26.)
  • Alcohol and alcoholism in Russia (Russian: Об алкоголе и алкоголизме в России. Электронная публикация. М., 2009.)
  • Democracy and dictatorship in Russia (Russian: О демократии и диктатуре в России. Электронная публикация. М., 2010.)

[edit] Literature

[edit] Art criticism

  • On some problems of basic terminology (Russian: О некоторых вопросах базовой терминологии. Справочник «Единый художественный рейтинг», вып. 11. М., 2005. С. 16-25.)
  • "Spiritual autism" (Russian: Духовный аутизм. Справочник «Единый художественный рейтинг», вып. 5. М., 2002. С. 67-76.)
  • "Spiritual autism" (Russian: Еще раз о «духовном аутизме». Справочник «Единый художественный рейтинг», вып. 7. М., 2003. С. 51-64.)
  • The congress of Moscow artists union or a feast during the plague? (Russian: Съезд Московского союза художников или пир во время чумы? Газета «Московский художник», № 2, 2003. С. 5.)
  • Arts and virtual reality (Russian: Искусство и виртуальная реальность. Справочник «Единый художественный рейтинг», вып. 5. М., 2002. С. 42-52.)
  • What to consider as masterpieces? Again about "Art of XX century" (Russian: Что считать шедеврами? (Снова об «Искусстве ХХ века»). Газета «Культура», № 25 (7233), 6-12 июля 2000 г.)
  • The ship and its team (to the 10 years jubilee of the Charter of Russian Academy of arts (Russian: Корабль и его команда (к 10-летию Устава Российской академии художеств). Электронная публикация. М., 2007.)

[edit] Protection of historical and cultural heritage

[edit] Catalogues of Zagraevsky's art works

  • Сергей Заграевский / Sergey Zagraevsky. — М., 1998.
  • Сергей Заграевский / Sergey Zagraevsky. — М., 2007.

[edit] Interesting fact

Zagraevsky in 2006 (before weight losing)
  • Since 2009 Zagraevsky lost about 30 kilos without medicine and special diets, only by less eating [12]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ High awards of Russia (in Russian)
  2. ^ Articles about Sergey Zagraevsky's art
  3. ^ See Prof. Dr. Sergey Zagraevsky's bibliography
  4. ^ See Sergey Zagraevsky's biography
  5. ^ Library "Rusarch" (in Rissian)
  6. ^ About Sergey Zagraevsky on Russian AICA section's website (in Russian)
  7. ^ About Sergey Zagraevsky on Russian AICA section's website (in Russian)
  8. ^ Sergey Zagraevsky's biography on the website of Moscow organization of Writers union of Russia (in Russian)
  9. ^ High awards of Russia
  10. ^ Sergey Zagraevsky's pictures
  11. ^ Full poem of Bulat Okudzhava
  12. ^ Russian TV, 1st Channel, June 2011

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