Lev Smorgon – Graphics, painting Automatic translate

Lev Smorgon does not have a preference for any type of art. Being a recognized puppet artist, porcelain artist, glass artist and more, he applied his drawing skills everywhere, even on wooden sculpture. All this speaks of incredible curiosity (what if so?) and dedication to the visual arts.

“When you perceive color as an element of form, you try to vary it - closer-further, quieter-brighter, more-less. You do what you think is best, but only from your perspective. These formal elements need to tell you something, reveal something to you. Until there is this signal, look further, don’t be lazy, in short.

The exhibition will feature Lev Smorgon’s graphics from past years, some drawings from the 2000s, as well as oil paintings. These are individual portraits, landscapes and still lifes, made in the author’s characteristic manner of calm drawing. The exhibition is dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the master. And, of course, its goal, as the author says, is simple - to take a look at the dusty works of past years and look at today’s viewer. “And the viewer is the mirror in which you see yourself.” /Lev Smorgon/

Lev Naumovich Smorgon is an outstanding artist, graphic artist, painter, sculptor, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR and Russia. Born in 1929 in Detskoe Selo, Leningrad Region. From 1941 to 1944 he lived in evacuation in the Urals. I painted constantly, every free minute. After the war he graduated from the Leningrad Higher Art Pedagogical University named after. V. I. Mukhina, Faculty of Decorative and Applied Sculpture. His teacher was V.L. Simonov, and N.I. Altman accepted work on the art council.

Since 1954, Smorgon worked at the Leningrad experimental plant "Porcelain" at the State Institute of Culture and Art, creating dozens of models of porcelain sculpture, which were produced in mass quantities in the USSR. Since 1955, he has been involved in toys at the Okhtinsky Chemical Plant, and is the author of almost a hundred legendary Soviet toys.

Lev Smorgon is an artist with a bright personality. Graphics, painting, sculpture, decorative and applied arts - in everything the master found his unique style, creating works of the highest artistic level. During his career, the artist made hundreds of drawings, complementing the idea of ​​the creative range of the outstanding sculptor. Of particular interest are the sheets reflecting his work on the sculpture.