The village “Peremilovo”, from which one does not want to leave. Soulful paintings by Vladimir Lyubarov

Vladimir Lyubarov (born in 1944) is a Russian artist who paints in the genre of primitivism, where he depicts the real life of the Russian village, but not dreary and hopeless, but with a sincere love for its inhabitants and for her herself.

Random Waltz.

The village in Lubarov's work is a kind of idealistic settlement lost in time, where simple and kind toilers live, and where real fairy-tale miracles are possible, such as a mermaid sitting on the lap of an ordinary Russian man.

Random connection

And the genre of primitivism fits here as well as possible, because it allows you to accurately convey the good-natured irony that permeates most of the artist's paintings.

Banana republic

However, Lyubarov's paintings are by no means primitive. He took much from Russian folklore and from the classics of painting. For example, the depiction of the crowd resembles the works of Bruegel, some paintings from the "Jewish series" clearly show the influence of Marc Chagall, and in their naive and enthusiastic view of the world they are similar to the work of Pirosmani.

Saturday

Blessing of the Kohanim

Gifts for Purim

But at the same time he managed to form his own style and Lubarev's paintings are difficult to confuse with anyone else's.

Fishy day

Lyubarov was born in an ordinary Moscow communal apartment. There was so little space there that as a child he had to sleep in a galvanized trough. But still Lyubarov recalls his childhood and life in the communal apartment with warmth, even about his unusual bed spoke with delight: “no one had such a bed for sure.

Hockey

Jumping ropes

Fasting day.

He started drawing early, and his favorite subject was war pictures, where the Russians always won. At the age of 11, he went to study at the art school at the Surikov Institute, and he did it on his own: he took a streetcar and applied. At the exam he drew Sadko from Russian bylinas, making him very fat. “But why is Sadko so fat?” the teachers wondered. “And I always wanted to look like him” - admitted young Lyubarov.

The swallow

Attack

He studied at art school for six years, but after graduation he was bored to write standardized paintings in the genre of socialist realism. But he became seriously interested in Russian and foreign literature, decided to become a graphic illustrator and entered the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. And here Lyubarov finally found a job to his liking: illustration allowed to reveal the image of literary heroes more fully, and it was possible to draw not only advanced workers, Soviet leaders or happy workers and peasants.

Love

For twenty years he illustrated and designed various books and magazines, including a particularly long period of time, from 1970-1985, when he worked as chief designer for the journal Chemistry and Life. The name should not be embarrassing - in addition to specialized articles, it printed novels and stories by many progressive authors, such as Strugatsky, which had to be illustrated.

Bulb

In 1988, he organized one of the first Russian private publishing houses, Text. The business turned out to be profitable, and Lyubarov earned enough money to buy a dacha. He didn't have enough for a palace in Rublevka - here, perhaps, he should have been in the oil business, not the publishing business - but he did find a nice house in the village of Ivanovskoye, 200 kilometers from Moscow.

Lunch

patchwork quilt

Life in the village, acquaintance with simple-minded and not yet spoiled by the hustle and bustle of the city locals prompted Lyubarov to write the cycle “Peremilovo Village” consisting of 300 paintings. “I'm not as good at going into the astral as the locals, but I'm trying,” Lubarov jokes. And he paints everything he has seen and witnessed in the village, sometimes adding a certain amount of fantasy, as in the case of the mermaid, but he does it very organically.

Bath day

Mermaid Dasha

Of course, in many ways this is an idealistic view of rural life, but Lyubarov does not want to write in any overly realistic way. And his work has become so popular that the artist could probably buy a dacha in a much more prestigious and close to Moscow, but he doesn't want to do it. “This is my home and my Peremilovo, I feel good and calm here.” And looking at Lubarov's colorful paintings one can only agree with him - one definitely does not want to leave Peremilovo.

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