Biography of Valerian

Creativity, which excites with its life truth, most of her life has passed outside the small homeland, but the Zhlobin residents know their famous fellow countrymen and remember them. And today, in the framework of the editorial project “Rod from Zhlobinsky”, dedicated to the education of the formation of our region, we will talk about the life and work of Valerian Konstantinovna. For starters, we will make a general review of the life and work of Valerian Zholtok.

She is the daughter of a railway employee. In the year she graduated from the Vitebsk Art College, where its mentors were the future People's Artist of the BSSR Ivan Akhremchik and another famous artist Vladimir Khrustalev. The influence of such talented teachers, of course, was reflected in the disclosure of the creative potential of the then young master of the brush.

With GO took part in all -Union, republican and foreign exhibitions. The works of our countrywoman became widely known among lovers of painting. They are awarded a high appreciation of art historians. Most of the works of Valerian Zholtok are devoted to their native Belarus, her people and nature. Among the best works - the paintings "Winter came", "Spring. The children's canvases “for help to the partisans”, “return”, and others tell about children of the war.

In the year, she was awarded the honorary title "Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus." The works of our heroine are stored in the funds of the Belarusian Union of Artists, in the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, in the Museum of Modern Fine Arts in Minsk. Features of the creative style are the main directions of the work of Valerian Konstantinovna, a still life, landscape and portrait.

She also worked in the genre of thematic picture, depicted scenes from everyday life. Her work is characterized by the clarity of the plot and a rich palette. Over the years, the artist’s work has survived a number of stylistic changes corresponding to the evolution of Soviet art, but his essence has always remained the same - unchanging optimism, genuine sincerity, boundless love and respect for people, immense admiration for the beauty of the surrounding world.

The canvases of Valerian Zholtok and today continue to worry connoisseurs of painting with vital truth.

The joy of the arrival of winter, the beloved heroes of the plot-thematic works of Valerian Zholtok are children with their unique world. According to experts, none of the Belarusian artists revealed this topic as deeply as our countrywoman. Take, for example, one of her most famous paintings - "Winter has come." Models for the canvas were the artist’s daughter stands near the piano-in the future, the master of decorative and applied art Elvira Poznyak, nephew Konstantin Zholtok and a friend of the daughter of Valentina Morozov.

The picture was selected for demonstration at the decade of Belarusian art and literature in Moscow in the year. There she was a great success. Along with the successful image of the psychological state of the heroes of their large charge of emotions, overwhelming a sense of joy and an irrepressible desire to be faster on ice, this picture attracts researchers with its household details.

In this case, skates. In the USSR, both adults and children went to the rink. By the way, skates with leather boots depicted in the picture were expensive, and this suggests that the heroes of this work of painting are children from a wealthy, by Soviet standards, family. Among her most remarkable works on this topic is the painting "Girl with flowers." Poppies, tulips, begonias, lilacs, bells - many marvelous creations of nature settled on the canvases of Valerian Zholtok.

She herself grew flowers and was happy to draw them, finding wherever she had to be - in Siberia, Central Asia, Crimea and the Caucasus.