Victor A. Dolgopolov

He was born in 1952 in Mr.. Samara.
In 1957 he moved to Sergiev Posad, Moscow region.
He studied at the College Zagorsk toys.
He graduated from the People's University of Arts Correspondence.
Participation in exhibitions and auctions

1982 Second All-Union Festival of Folk Art of the USSR. VDNKh (Winner). Moscow.

Criticism

Artist, sculpture, wood carver, a talented virtuoso master miniaturist, the restorer, to work freely as monumental, as well as in small plastic, as well as in church and religious topics. Creativity Victor Dolgopolova diverse and species and forms of artistic expression and technical means. His works combine images of conciseness, expressiveness and precision of language realistic outlook, decorative ornamental general impression of the truth of life observation, based on the traditions of Russian. The artist creates ostrovyrazitelnye the grotesque compositions based on the internal perception of the surrounding world (wood carving, casting). They are marked by imagination, wit, understanding the nature of images, combined with the best traditions of small sculptures and a fundamentally new art. Products arts and crafts original, original, their form of perfection, elegance and expressiveness. Victor Dolgopolov - master with a great knowledge of the material - wood, revealing its beauty and features a plastic material. Calibrated and polished techniques of carving up the virtuoso plastic expressiveness, built on a clear silhouette, a soft round shape, the decorative rhythm of "cuts" their harmonious combination with the surface of wood.

Olga Baldin