PLAKSIN Michael

1898 Schlisselburg near St. Petersburg - 1965, Moscow. He studied at the PU OPKh y and. Repin and A. Yakovlev. Was mobilized in the Red Army, served in the Urals in the advocacy department, making posters and decorated streets to the "red calendar days". Influenced served there as a painter. Labasa interested in the problems of abstract art. Entered into Higher Art (1920), made friends with the group "Elektroorganizm", then "group proektsionistov". In addition to the characteristic of the artist "proektsionista" abstract and semi-abstract works embodying some elements of modern urbanism, Plaksin performed and plot-theme songs and pictures. Since the mid 1920's virtually abandoned painting classes. Products are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; SRM, St. Petersburg, etc.. meetings.