"Bringing the Museum to You"

By permission of the artist’s gallery, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature works by Russian Impressionist landscape painter Vladimir V. Filippov, our second contemporary artist on this new home website.

 

Vladimir was born in 1956, in Vyshniy Volochek. He spent his childhood in Novoye Kotchische Village, where such famous artists as brothers Sergei & Aleksei Tkachev lived. It was also not far from the Academic Dacha a well-known Russian Art Academy and artist community named after the great painter Ilya E. Repin. Filippov spent long hours visiting artists in their studios, admiring great artists and their paintings. Since childhood, Vladimir's dream was to become an artist.

 

Vlad graduated from the Railway College and enrolled in the Soviet Army. After his demobilization he entered the Agricultural Academy, renewing his paln to become an artist. Vladimir painted his first nature watercolor still life from the studio of Nikolai A. Sysoev, an honored artist of the Soviet Union. Filippov’s gift grew under Sysoev’s direction.

 

In 1970, Vladimir became acquainted with Peter I. Strakhov and Peter's wife, Lia A. Ostrovaya, who were famous artists in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Peter Straknov made great contributions to Vladimir's creative development. Since 1970, Vladimir Filippov has devoted his life full time to painting, participating in numerous local and regional exhibitions since 1980.

 

Since 1990, Filippov has trained and worked under the Russian Realist masters Yuri P. Kugach (senior) and his son Mikhail Y. Kugach, who is now head of the Kugach Studio and a full member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Vladimir has also painted in the company of such wonderful artists as Grigory Chainikov and Andrei Zakharov. These artists and close friends have played an important role in Vladimir's development as an artist. Filippov is one of the few artists continuing the great tradition of Russian Realistic Art.

 

Vladimir Filippov is a member of the Union of Russian Artists since 2003. His paintings are exhibited in the Museums of Mogilev and Bobruisk (Republic of Byelorussia), in the Museum of Harbin (China), in many private art collections in Russia, Check Republic, Yugoslavia, Romania, Finland, Germany, China, and the USA.

 

 

Special Thanks to the good people at Thomas Kearns McCarthey Gallery. Check out their fabulous collection of Russian Impressionism here:

http://www.mccartheygallery.net/