The anti-Soviet art Basil Koloteva

• The anti-Soviet art Basil Koloteva

Communal, beer, store utility room, women's bathhouse and food queue - all these are simple everyday scenes on canvases ironic Vasily Koloteva devoted to life in Moscow 70-80-ies. At that time, the artist officially worked as a mechanic, because of his anti-Soviet works were banned in the Soviet Union. Despite the gloomy tone of his genre paintings of this period are full of life and often cause a smile.

Vasily batters born in 1953 in the village of Nikolskoye second in the Voronezh region, and since childhood began to study painting. At first Vasily he attended art studio, and in 1969 he enrolled in art school. After serving in the Army Vassily he moved to Moscow, where he settles in a small room in a communal apartment in the Arbat area.

Rush Hour

A small room on the Arbat and becomes the main creative studio artist Koloteva - where he paints in an abstract style, as well as copies paintings by Dutch artists, honing skills. Around the same time is born and his own style of painting Basil - sketches on the theme of Soviet life. Somewhere nearby there bravura socialist realist paintings with happy and mighty Soviet citizens and heroes Koloteva paintings lived their quiet and inconspicuous life of inhabitants and communal regulars gateways.

Morning neighbor

Of course, in the USSR, picture Koloteva were banned, so the "real socialist realism" was not necessary to the authorities - batters are not spent in the Soviet years a single exhibition, and was forced to work as a mechanic, repairman and artist designer at a textile factory - not including the "parasite" . His first official exhibition of Vasily was able to organize only in 1992 - and almost all pictures with it there and then flew through the galleries in Paris, New York and Berlin.

Morning neighbor

Street Scene - 1

Street Scene - 2

Street Scene - 2

In the stairwell

0, 7 do not take

Vegetables, fruit

queue

Memory cat Tishka

Floats, floats boat

Entrepreneur

Arrived

Birds on a gray background

Bird Market

the public stage. Arbat

... And the ship sails. Beer.

0, 5 do not take

Ale

The arrest of the propagandist. Sobering-up stations

Bani Third Rome - F

Bani Third Rome - Moscow

The tabloid scene - 1

The tabloid scene - 2

In the supermarket

At the hairdresser

Vernissage

Resurrection

The World of Art

Master of his craft - 1. Grinder

Master of his craft - 2. Shoe Repair

cross - trumps

The Ninth Wave

Red letter day