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Yuriy Klapoukh is a contemporary realist artist from Ukraine. The master is inspired by the beauty of everyday life, the native landscape and the characters of loved ones. Information about the life and good paintings of Klapoukh will be of interest to lovers of new and classical art.
Biography
Ukrainian painter was born in 1963. After graduating from school, Yuri entered the Higher Military Engineering School in Kharkov. In 1985, the young man graduated from the university with honors. By his first education, Yuri Alexandrovich Klapoukh is a designer of aviation equipment.
Professional career was short-lived. A promising engineer moved to Moscow and became a student at the Surikov Institute. Since 1993 Yuri Klapoukh has been a professional artist. The first major work of the master is the painting of the St. Alexander Nevsky Church in Kharkov.
Since the mid-1990s, Yuri Klapoukh has been engaged in secular art. The artist's works were shown at expositions in Ukraine, South Africa and European countries. In 2003, the first solo exhibition was held in Germany.
Klapouh –participant and laureate of international competitions. In 2009-2010, the Ukrainian master received 2 awards from the Art Renewal Center, a scientific organization that supports contemporary realist artists. In 2011, Yuri was awarded a diploma of the Holy Synod and the order "In honor of 1020 years of the baptism of Kievan Rus" for painting the Alexander Nevsky Church.
Since 2019, the artist has been living in Kharkov. The master's paintings are in private collections of domestic and foreign collectors. Klapoukh's works are exhibited at the Gamma Gallery in Kyiv.
Characteristic of creativity
Yuri Klapoukh is an artist working in oil and acrylic painting. He creates beautiful paintings. The best paintings of the master belong to 4 genres:
- Landscape.
- Story painting.
- Still life.
- Portrait.
Klapouha's painting is imbued with sympathy and tenderness for the depicted people, objects and landscape. The artist continues the traditions of romantic realism of the 19th-20th centuries. The plots are taken from modern reality, but placed outside the political and ideological context. The author of the paintings expresses a personal emotional mood, without drawing attention to social problems.
Portraits
All men and women depicted in the paintings of the Ukrainian master have real prototypes. The heroes of the portraits are personally acquainted with Yuri Klapoukh. The artist knows the circumstances of life and the characters' characters. Direct communication with the models helps Klapouch to show their human personality on the canvas.
Master attaches greatthe importance of the details of figurative works. Gestures and postures, clothes and background tell about the character and fate of the posing men and women.
Landscapes
Native expanses is one of Yuri Klapoukh's favorite subjects. The artist paints seascapes, forests and plains with winding paths, rocky streams. Views of villages and pastures tell of a serene life away from the cities.
The landscapes of Klapouha are filled with freshness and silence, which can only be disturbed by the singing of birds, the lowing of cows or the murmur of a forest spring. The paintings leave a feeling of light sadness, make one admire the quiet beauty of the depicted nature.
Still life
The charm of everyday life is the leading theme in Yury Klapoukh's subject painting. The artist demonstrates the lush beauty of garden flowers, the intricate contours of wild mushrooms and the delicate blush of domestic apples.
Everyday food in Klapoukh's paintings turns into an object for creative reflection. In the "Artist's Breakfast" still life, the glossy sheen and openwork edges of fried eggs evoke not only appetite in the viewer, but also aesthetic pleasure.
Story painting
In the genre works of Yuri Klapoukh scenes of rural life prevail. The artist paints villagers in moments of rest from household chores. The characters are surrounded by a free landscape and simple working equipment. A cloudless sky completes the picture of an idyllic life in harmony with nature.
2 genre entries - "Thirst" and "Serious Intentions" - brought Klapoukh awards in the competitionArt Renewal Center. Both canvases show moments from the daily life of the village old people. The details reveal the hidden psychologism of the scenes.
In "Thirst", an elderly woman sits near a dish of ripe peaches. The heroine touches the fruit, and the gesture of her hand betrays her indecision and the dumb question: try or refuse? A woman admires a ruddy fruit and does not dare to disturb the harmony achieved by nature.
In "Serious Intentions", a couple of old men talk while relaxing in the hayfield. A man shares his “grand” plans with his companion. The woman listens to him with a smile. The viewer can only guess what the "serious intentions" of the old man are and whether he will carry out his plan.
Klapouha video blog
Since 2017, the artist has been running a Russian-language channel on the Internet. Klapouh publishes video tutorials for drawing, as well as oil and acrylic painting.
Blog content is designed for beginners and professionals. The channel has video instructions for children on drawing nature.
Each lesson is a visual master class of Klapoukh, accompanied by the author's comments. In the videos you can see the entire process of creating a portrait, landscape or still life.
Klapoukh Yuri Alekseevich shares his own creative techniques and reveals the secrets of the old masters. For example, in one of the lessons the artist offers to learn how to paint oak from Shishkin.
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