Solo exhibition of Anatoly Anosov:
painting, graphics, bookplate, book illustration

An exhibition of Anatoly Anosov, a remarkable graphic artist and painter, teacher who has brought up more than one generation of Irkutsk artists, has opened in the Siberian Art Gallery of the Irkutsk Art Museum. In addition, he is rightly called a classic book design.

A.I. Anosov. Wine and plum. Canvas, oil. 2010

Anatoly Anosov designed over 300 books of various subjects. The books closest to the artist are the Irkutsk prose writers and poets V. Rasputin, A. Zverev, V. Zhemchuzhnikov, M. Sergeyev, S. Ioffe, M. Trofimov, R. Filippov, playwrights A. Vampilov, P. Malyarevsky, B. Levantovskaya. In each work of Anatoly Anosov, a perceptibly sensitive attitude to the individual style of the author, a variety of emotional shades. So the illustrations for Valentin Rasputin’s short story “The Deadline” are convincing life scenes that reveal the original characters of the characters.

An important section of the work of Anatoly Ivanovich was the bookplate. Since 1970, he created about 200 bookplates, which are characterized by humor with hints of light irony and a friendly smile. Ex-libris is mainly dedicated to people close to the artist, primarily fellow artists. The bookplates of Anosov are very popular, they were exhibited at many important exhibitions and brought the artist a well-deserved authority.

A.I. Anosov. Starry evening at Sophia Vasilievna. Canvas, oil. 2010.

And, of course, the exhibition has a large number of paintings. Painting persistently attracts the artist, perhaps in it he expresses what cannot be said in the language of graphics, makes up for the emotional richness and fullness of sensations that is characteristic of his nature. The genres of landscape and still life that he loves most are the beauty and diversity of the Baikal nature and the lush flowering of vegetation. The works of Anatoly Anosov have a lot of good, bright mood, they convey all the colorful richness of the world.

The exhibition is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the author, which he celebrated on March 19. The exhibition will run until May 1, 2016 in the Gallery of Siberian Art at the address: st. Karl Marx, 23.