Artist Soyfertis Biography

In this fairly voluminous publication, I decided to introduce you to the work of Leonid Veniamin Vladimirovich Soyfertis--People's Artist of the USSR, corresponding member of the USSR, a regular employee of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper and Crocodile magazine, the author of drawings in Soviet periodicals. And in this article, I decided to defeat the work of this wonderful illustrator into three iconic stages not only for him, but also for the country in which he lived Leonid Vladimirovich began to draw professionally very early, because at the age of 17-18 he already printed caricatures in Komsomolets of Ukraine and sent his drawings to the journal Crocodile and when he still moved to Moscow, he was lucky that he was lucky in “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, where at that time the best artists of the country worked at that time, led by the authoritative and respected D.

The artist did not receive a systematic art education at one time, but sought to make up for this gap, studying in the process, directly communicating with art, senior colleagues and visiting a variety of iso-studios in his free time. Paper, watercolor. The scene on the boulevard has absorbed something close to the basic laws of life. Moms, nannies, their children are not in the drawing, and at the same time, they are told about them silhouettes of several strollers with raised hoods.

Eyes involuntarily look for features of the differences in repetition of standard forms, because, no matter how incredible - strollers communicate with each other.

Their cramped circle, their “backs” express a lively interest. Album "Leonid Sofertis. Graphics ”, author of the introductory article by Guryeva Tatyana Georgievna, M. Drawings by the artist Soyfertis of the Great Patriotic War in his own very original and amazing, because they are completely absent in heroization, and we see the eyes of an eyewitness of people to live with dignity, despite the horrors of war that surrounded them and occur with them literally every day, we observe the old woman, which is not the old woman, which is not the old woman, which is not the old woman, which is not the old woman who is not the old woman.

She bothered to raise her head to look at the sky. What to watch there? After all, every day is the same bombing, bombing from the Sevastopol series. Mascara, watercolor. But why, when you suddenly wake up in the middle of the night, when the memories surrender, Sevastopol always arises in your memory: streets littered with stone, twisted beams of buildings and a crimson sky above your head?

.. Always admired the courage and perseverance of the defenders of Odessa and Sevastopol, Little Lithuanians. Soyfertis is again busy with intense searches, immersed in serious work, which requires him to complete dedication and internal stress, the post -war period of our country is illuminated in its huge archive of sketches and sketches, the small fraction of which I was able to provide a technique in this review: paper, mixed equipment.

Size: 78x year: E Gg. Size: 56.5X Size: 49X Size: 30X Technique: paper, pencil. Technique: paper, watercolor. Size: 65x42.5. When you get acquainted with the work of the artist of this period, there is a feeling that the author of these drawings unexpectedly found his heroes at the time of their unhurried conversation, that he turned out to be a random witness to some unpretentious, but important for these characters, events.

From the series "Metro". Technique: paper, mascara, watercolor, pastel. Size: The 33rd Sea, as you see, was built, and the kindergarten we are waiting for ... Technique: paper, mixed equipment. Size: 47.5x