Soviet artist Viktor Ivanovich Zaretsky 1925-1990

Selection of flax. (Portrait of a team leader P. Syrovatko). 1960. Tempera. Soviet artist Viktor Ivanovich Zaretsky 1925-1990
Soviet artist Viktor Ivanovich Zaretsky
Born in 1925 in the Kharkov province, Viktor Ivanovich Zaretsky – Soviet artist, educator, Veteran of WWII, a member of the Communist Party, a member of the USSR Artists’ Union, and public figure.
Viktor spent his childhood and youth in Donbass in the workers’ settlements of Gorlovka and Stalino (now Donetsk). His father worked as an accountant at the then created chemical production. During the Great Patriotic War (1943-1945) he served in the reserve regiment, and after the demobilization lived with his parents for some time in the village of Obidimo near Tula, Russia. There he took private lessons from the Soviet painter L. Orekhov.
In 1946 Viktor Zaretsky entered the art school at the Kiev State Art Institute, workshop of Gennady Titov. A year later he entered the institute, where his teachers were K. Yelev, M. Sharonov and S. Grigoriev.
As an excellent student, he received Repin and Stalin scholarship. Besides, the diploma picture – “The Line to Lenin’s Mausoleum” – received the highest score. After graduating from the institute in 1953, Viktor Zaretsky began to teach in his Alma Mater.
Since 1955, the artist worked in Donbass. There he created such paintings as “Miners. Shift”, “After the war”, “Hot day”, “Mine yard”, “After the change” and others.

Diploma work – Line to the Mausoluem. Workshop of S. Grigoriev (1947-1953)ю Soviet artist Viktor Ivanovich Zaretsky 1925-1990
Together with his wife, Alla Gorskaya, he became a well-known figure in the movement of the “sixties”. In the monumental and decorative works of the artist – mosaic panels created in co-authorship with his wife. Accordingly, we see the influence of folk art, characterized by a bright, life-affirming artistic solution.
Soviet artist Viktor Ivanovich Zaretsky

A family
Meanwhile, in 1978 he opened his own art studio, in which over 200 students studied.
Characterized by the multi-vector stylistic approaches, his creativity was the constant search for the new in the traditional. And early paintings show expressive composition, rhythm and silhouette. After the collapse of the USSR, the artist’s legacy received a wide foreign resonance. In particular, about 30 of his works were presented at Christie’s auction.
Viktor Ivanovich Zaretsky died August 23, 1990 in Kiev, buried at the Berkovets Cemetery.

A girl in a hat, portrait

A girl in blue

A viburnum snow

Actress (Portrait of Raisa Nedashkovskaya)

Angel of spring. 1986

Artist Zaretsky, self-portrait. 1950s

At the coal mine. 1957

At the Fair

At the river

Breath of spring. 1987

Dream

Early spring. 1982

Flashes

Flooding

Forest Dream

Forget-me-nots

From the series of paintings ‘Spring’

In the street. 1964

Ivana Moskovka, portrait

Kosovo craftsmen. 1975

Landscape. From the series of Spring

March. 1987

Milkmaids. Portrait of a Milkmaid N.

Miners

Morning still life

Mother-in-law. 1954

Peacock

Plant a tree

Play music, play

Poppies

Portrait of Olga Kravchenko

selection committee

Self-portrait with Zun Ko Li

Soldier’s wife

Spring has come. 1988

Spring worries. 1987

Tatyana

Teacher. 1968

Temple. Winter forest

The city of workers. 1979

The Kosovo potter. 1975

Two Falcons

Viktor Zaretsky

Washing in the river

Wind

Winter bunches of viburnum. 1986

Zootechnician Luba Palaguta. 1963
sources
Illustrated Album Soviet art, 1970
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