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The Russian Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of paintings by the Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts Oleg Nikolaevich Loshakov “From Petushki to Shikotan”. It is retrospective. The exposition consisted of about a hundred works of different years from the author’s collection: landscapes, still lifes, portraits, thematic compositions. It is based on a number of famous Shikotan works, part of a cycle of paintings from the 1960s–1990s that strikes with its originality and integrity. Deep content, romantic pathos, expression, dynamics of compositional rhythms, bold pictorial generalizations, color contrasts are inherent in the master’s art. The exhibition demonstrates a fairly broad picture of the author’s work, making it possible to trace the development of his pictorial style.

The name of Oleg Loshakov, one of the brightest representatives of the art of the late 60s and early 70s, the founder of the so-called "Shikotan group", is widely known both in our country and abroad. His creative development is associated with the time when, following the artists of the “sixties”, the next generation came with its own worldview and understanding of creative tasks. The quest of the “sixties” was close to Loshakov, but he found his own figurative-plastic language.

Oleg Nikolaevich Loshakov was born in Moscow in 1936. In 1954 he graduated from the Moscow secondary art school, studied with A. P. Shorchev, N. I. Andriyaka; in 1960 - Moscow Art Institute. V. I. Surikov, the workshop of the People’s Artist of the USSR P. P. Sokolov-Skal. He began participating in art exhibitions as a student. Since 1967 - a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. After graduating from the institute for distribution, Oleg Loshakov taught at the Vladivostok Art College for two years. In 1966, he first came to the island of Shikotan. The amazing beauty of this region struck and captivated the artist. Every year for several decades, his creative expeditions continued here at the head of a group of young painters from Moscow and Primorye. The harsh nature of the Far East, a peculiar way of life,

For Oleg Loshakov himself, these trips became a time of deep artistic searches and discoveries, the emergence of which was the strongest emotional impression made from acquaintance with the Far East. Here, on about. Shikotan, he felt the greatness and power of nature, as if becoming a participant in the clash of grandiose elemental forces. Here he wrote hundreds of etudes, etudes-compositions inspired by the experience of the uniqueness of this semi-mythical country. In his work, the artist went to gaining inner freedom, visual means that allowed him to convey his thoughts about the world, the place of man in it. The characteristic laconicism of form, the accuracy of all elements of the composition, the emphasized harsh monumentality of the landscape create in his works a holistic, symbolic image of nature and the universe filled with spiritual power.

Experts note that "in the Shikotan works of Loshakov there is always a sense of the global nature of the world, primarily in landscape paintings." According to the researchers, "the cycle of paintings created in the Far East and about the Far East… was not only a remarkable creative discovery of the artist, but also a bright page in Russian art of the 20th century."

The exhibition also includes portrait works of the author. Fishermen, border guards, sailors, workers, young girls - all these images are distinguished by lively spontaneity, sincerity, clarity of characteristics. The exhibition also features landscapes and still lifes created in the village of Omutishchi, Vladimir Region, near the town of Petushki in the 2000s. In the post-Shikotan period, an artist works in these places in the summer. The painting of these years preserves and develops that inner tension and expressiveness of style, elements of the artistic language that were found and developed in works dedicated to the Far East. Large-scale compositions draw attention to themselves - “Earth and people. The soul of a fisherman "(1979-1986)," Departure at 17. 00 "(2002). They sound the theme of acute dissonances of modern life.

A recognized master, a major painter, Oleg Nikolaevich Loshakov is an experienced teacher who has educated several generations of artists. He was repeatedly elected to the Board and Secretariat of the Union of Artists of the USSR, supervised issues of work with creative youth. Currently Professor Loshakov teaches at the Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts. He is also an honorary professor at the Institute of Zhangzhou University of China. His creative activity was highly appreciated, he was awarded state and professional awards. O. N. Loshakov’s works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, museums and art galleries in Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kurgan, Izhevsk, Perm, Uglich, foreign countries, as well as in private collections abroad.

The exhibition at the Academy is a meeting with the work of the most interesting author, an opportunity to take a fresh look at his art in the context of modern artistic life, the realities of today.