Exhibition of the Honored Artist of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Anatoly A. Kholopov Automatic translate

The solo exhibition of Anatoly Alexandrovich Kholopov, Honored Artist of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, is a small but striking part of his work in the field of poster and printing design for more than 50 years of creativity.

A special place in the artist’s work is occupied by work on a political, exhibition and spectacular poster. Trips to the houses of creativity and work with the masters of the Soviet poster enriched the creative potential of the artist and influenced his further professional level. It was the skill of Anatoly Alexandrovich Kholopov in the field of poster art that was the center-forming artistic core in the exposition presented by the artist.

Poster - synthesis of words and images. The gift of Anatoly Alexandrovich Kholopov is characterized by laconicism, accuracy of thought, expressiveness of composition.

The exhibition presents works of different years, starting in 1980.

The exhibition is held within the framework of the project of the Creative Union of Artists of the Republic of Bashkortostan PORAH and TLC Experimental Creative Workshop in Ufa, where he is one of the curators of the project and a member of the TLC RB Art Council.

Kholopov Anatoly Alexandrovich was born in Ufa on February 24, 1943. In 1962 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Art College. After serving in the army in 1965, he began working in the field of printing design. Since 1966 he has been working at the Bashkir Book Publishing House as a book artist.

The main activity of the artist is related to book design, and the poster. Of particular interest to him is the work with font compositions and photography. Since 1966, in the Bashkir Book Publishing House, he has issued more than 300 publications of fiction, political mass media and technical literature.

In the 70s, he worked on creating albums on the history and ethnography of the Bashkir region, the nature of the mountain Urals and its marvelous landscapes, travels a lot and takes pictures. As a result of these trips, the ideas of the Bashkir Costume photo album and the eponymous exhibition in the halls of the Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR in Leningrad, where he was the main artist of the exposition, were born.

In the 70s, he worked on creating albums on the history and ethnography of the Bashkir region, the nature of the mountain Urals and its marvelous landscapes, travels a lot and takes pictures. As a result of these trips, the ideas of the Bashkir Costume photo album and the eponymous exhibition in the halls of the Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR in Leningrad, where he was the main artist of the exposition, were born.

Since 1972, in the position of technical, then art editor. He was awarded diplomas of the All-Union and Russian book art competitions, with publications in the magazine "In the world of books."

1975 - Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR.

1976 - Member of the poster committee of the Union of Artists of the USSR and the RSFSR.

1983 - 1990 - Chairman of the Art Council of the Creative and Production Combine of the Union of Artists of Bashkiria.

1990 - 1992 - Chairman of the Board of the Union of Artists of Bashkiria.

Since 1970, a participant in all republican, Russian and All-Union exhibitions of the poster, the exhibition Soviet Poster in England (1977), France (1978). 1977 - 1980 The head of the creative group to create the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography of the Southern Urals of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Bashkir branch).

1991 - the main artist of the exhibition "Bashkortostan in Austria", Salzburg. Since 1997 - the head of the publishing center, the main artist of the publishing house “Bashkortostan”.

Since 2002, lives and works in Sergiev Posad.

2018 - Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia.