An exhibition by Vladimir Vitko opened in Vitebsk
The exhibition runs from August 1 to 31 at the Art Museum.
Vladimir Ilyich Vitko is a Vitebsk painter and graphic artist, known in the world of contemporary Belarusian art as a master of the "severe style" of painting.
Vladimir Vitko was born on May 10, 1933, in the village of Gretsk, Slutsk district, Minsk region. He graduated from the Minsk Art College named after A.K. Glebov (1960). In 1961, he moved to Vitebsk, where he initially worked at the KIM factory, and then at the silk combine. In 1968, Vladimir Vitko began working in the Vitebsk Art Workshops, where he had his own creative studio. Since 1964, the artist began to regularly participate in republican exhibitions. He painted with watercolors, engaged in linocut, and later became interested in oil painting. In 1975, he was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR. In 2001, V. Vitko published his autobiographical book "White Clouds".
The work of V.I. Vitko is very diverse in theme and style. In his canvases, the artist expresses the sorrows and griefs that the Belarusian land has gone through. The author pays great attention to the theme of the Great Patriotic War. Deep reflections on the themes of death and human destiny are juxtaposed with decorative works in bright, cheerful, optimistic colors. Alongside realistic portraits and landscapes are stylized works close to abstraction. Among the paintings created by the artist, there are many deeply realistic, and at the same time, fantastical and philosophical compositions. And although the titles of his paintings often include the words
"memory", "pain", "suffering", Vladimir Vitko remains an open, naive, and sentimental romantic in his work.The work of Vladimir Vitko is widely known in Belarus. His works are kept and exhibited in art museums of Minsk, Vitebsk, Novopolotsk, Slutsk, and other museums in our country, and his works are added to private collections in Belarus, Russia, Poland, Germany, and Italy.
"The artist highly values decorativeness in painting, noting at the same time what an inexhaustible treasure trove for professional art is folk art, its decor, ornament, color...". N.A. Gugnin, art critic.