Nikolai Kopeikin (born 1966) is a Russian artist, as well as an actor, writer and just a creative person who was often in a certain underground - well, he did not want to write the right ideological pictures and posters praising the current life. But he has many witty and truly mischievous illustrations.
Winnie Pushkin
Kopeikin himself calls the style of the paintings he paints - multrealism, they are something like illustrations of children's books with familiar characters from Soviet cartoons, but created for adults, those who were born in the Soviet era, and used to perceive reality in an ironic-critical way.
Piglet under brandy
Kopeikin's drawings are relatively simple, naive, hooliganistic in a good way, but at the same time they do not repel with excessive vulgarity or blackness. It is simply a look at our lives through the prism of irony, with cartoon characters familiar from childhood, as in the picture Gena modified.
Gena modified
It turned out that Winnie Pooh, Carlson and Crocodile Gena are clearly not fools to drink, and in general more like real alcoholics. But do not stigmatize the artist - Kopeikin managed to show very convincingly what alcohol does even with such positive characters, which in his drawings cause only disgust. You can't think of a better advertisement for a healthy lifestyle.
Conquerors of potatoes
However, there is Kopeikin and real quality satire, with humor and wittily illustrating various phenomena of our lives. For example, the picture "Conquerors of the potato. Those who have ever planted potatoes at the dacha or in the village on the plot, know that the Colorado potato beetle - a real scourge of the gardener. You have to at least a couple of times to treat your plot "from the beetle", so the myths about ecologically clean potatoes from your plot should be left to the vocal storytellers.
Ai-nane technology
And this is already an irony regarding the fashion for nanotechnology, which was once buzzing in the ears of all our officials. It turned out that the Roma also have them, and have had them for at least several hundred years.
Svetka Sokolova and Yurka Shatunov
Kopeikin himself is a member of the "Witch Artists" association, whose goals and objectives are quite interesting. For example, they believe that it is necessary to "spell" the viewer, that is, to make him look at life without rose-colored glasses and illusions, imposed by our media and aggressive advertising, to turn on critical thinking and then he will open the "shining truth". Perhaps that's why Kopeikin has always considered himself a representative of the St. Petersburg underground - in the city on the Neva River there has formed a rather large group of really interesting artists who work not on commission, but for themselves and the dictates of the soul.
Nice kid
By the way, they do not consider themselves professionals, none of the "witch artists" did not graduate from a specialized educational institution, because they write as they can, believe that the main thing is not the technique, but an interesting idea. Professionalism, in their opinion, kills art, makes it soulless, and studying at art schools helps to perfect technique, but emasculates creativity.
The mushrooms are coming
However, Kopeikin's artwork is not at all amateurish, although in them, as in any primitivist or cartoonist, the main thing is an idea and a special mood. And with ideas Kopeikin everything is in good order, his paintings are willingly bought by collectors, and they are even in the Hermitage, Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum, although, of course, not in the main exhibition. Kopeikin's paintings are creative, brave in a good way, and allow us to look at familiar things in a new way. And although his paintings, like Angela Jerich's, are more suited to the Internet and social networks, they have already outgrown the level of mass freelancing and unknown creatives.
Legal Prey
He depicts our reality through the prism of humor and irony, and the usual characters - police officers, "straight guys", brothers, no longer seem not so much scary as funny.
Visiting Lozhkin and Kopeikin
By the way, Kopeikin himself is friends with another famous artist, Vasya Lozhkin. They have their favorite characters, Lozhkin has red cats, and Kopeikin has elephants and snowmen. And I would like to see more of such unconventional and talented artists, if only for the sake of contrasting the boring and correct official art.
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