Artist Zarubin: animation and postcards

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Older people remember greeting cards with funny cartoons. The author of these kind fairy-tale pictures was the artist Zarubin Vladimir Ivanovich, a Soviet animator, with the participation of which about a hundred hand-drawn cartoons came out. Postcards are a hobby of Vladimir Ivanovich, which at one time became his main work. The postcards of the artist Zarubin brought a joyful expectation of a miracle not only into the lives of children, but also adults. On the eve of the holidays, every house in a vast country was waiting for bright images with cartoon animals, which children redrawn, cut out, and collected postcards. Today, Zarubin's postal miniature is published in printed catalogs and collections, and his series of old postcards is of particular value to collectors.

Short biography

Vladimir Zarubin became an artist rather late because the war prevented him from getting a proper education and professional skills. Vladimir was born in the Oryol region, a villageAndriyanovka, in 1925. His father, a road engineer, had a good library and often brought home books on painting. For Volodya, this was the first introduction to art.

The family moved to the Donbass, to the city of Lisichansk, where the Zarubins found themselves in the Great Patriotic War. Volodya's two older brothers went to the front, and he, the youngest in the family, was barely sixteen. When the Nazis occupied the Donetsk region, Volodya, like many other teenagers, was taken to Germany for forced labor. There, in the camp, the young man remained until 1945, the moment of liberation by the American allies. Having reached our occupation zone in the territory of eastern Germany, Vladimir entered the army as a rifleman. Then he became seriously interested in drawing.

Demobilized in 1949, Zarubin returned home, and after a while went to his older brother, who lived in Moscow. In the capital, Vladimir got a job as an artist at a factory. There he met his future wife, draftswoman Nadezhda Ulyankina.

The work of the multiplier

Perhaps the biography of the artist Zarubin would have remained inconspicuous, but in 1956 there was a sharp turn in his fate. Having learned about the recruitment at the Soyuzmultfilm studio for art courses, Vladimir entered there and after training began to work as an animator. He participated in the creation of 97 famous cartoons, such as "Mowgli", "Well, wait a minute!", "Once upon a time there was a dog", "The Secret of the Third Planet", "Vasilisa Mikulishna", "The Adventures of Vasya Kurolesov", "The Argonauts" and many others, loved by the Sovietkids.

Management has repeatedly noted the work of Vladimir Ivanovich and often called him the best multiplier in the country. In the late 1970s, the artist Zarubin became a member of the Union of Cinematographers. In 1982, Vladimir Ivanovich suffered his first heart attack, after which he worked mainly at home.

Mail thumbnail

Even during his work at the film studio, the artist carried out commissions for the illustration of children's books and postal products, such as envelopes, calendars and postcards. But the work on postcards especially captivated the artist Zarubin. Each of his pictures is like a frame from a cartoon, and at the same time it is a complete story with its own story and characters. The artist's favorite theme was the New Year, the most fabulous and magical holiday. Other motives of his postcards are congratulations on March 8 and birthday, and after perestroika, Christmas and Easter themes appeared.

In 1962, the publishing house "Izogiz" issued the artist's first postcard, a year after Yuri Gagarin's flight into space. It was a New Year's greeting with the image of a rocket and an astronaut, a popular theme of the time. Zarubin continued to reflect the space theme in a postal miniature, each time the images were dedicated to significant events in Soviet cosmonautics. In total, Zarubin created about 250 postcard designs and over 70 envelopes, the total circulation of which exceeded one and a half million copies.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Vladimir Ivanovich has been constantlycollaborated with a small publishing house. In June 1996, after a conflict over payment for Zarubin's work by management, the artist died of a second heart attack.

Greeting cards today

Interest in the pictures of Vladimir Ivanovich has not disappeared. Now sets of his postcards are being published, a printed catalog has been published, and on the Internet, postal products designed by the artist are widely represented for philocartist collectors. Photo postcards by the artist Zarubin are popular in electronic form, they captivate thousands of people. Users on the Web send images to their friends along with congratulations, just as their parents once sent out postcards. And over the years, the pictures of this wonderful artist invariably evoke the kindest feelings and smiles.