Klyukin Oleg

Klyukin Oleg Pavlovich
(20.09.1929 G. – G. 21.08.2002)
Honored artist of Russia, awarded the Honorary Diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet for merits in the field of fine arts.
Born September 20, 1929. in the village of Vasilevo (Chkalovsk) in Nizhny Novgorod province. In 1946. he enrolled in the Yaroslavl art College. In 1949. transferred to Gorky art College, from which he graduated in 1951. The same year he starts to participate in art exhibitions.
With 1952. in 1965. lived and worked in Grozny. In 1957. the delegation of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet socialist Republic was a member of the world Youth Festival in Moscow
In 1960. was accepted as a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR.
In 1965. was transferred to the Moscow branch of Union of Artists of Russia and moved to live in Noginsk.
Last years op Klyukin lived and worked for the Volga river near the ancient Russian city of Gorodets, where he created a series of paintings on the peasant theme, numerous landscapes and still lifes.
Op Klyukin – artist with a wide range. He painted landscapes, thematic paintings, portraits, still lifes. In his paintings attract juicy painting, interesting composition solution.
Many of his canvases are painted in the mountains of Chechnya, in the villages of Ingushetia, on the shores of the Caspian sea, in the city of Grozny, in the suburbs and especially in the Volga region, according to his skill are significant works of art included in the Museum exhibition.
Painting P. O. Klyukina was exhibited at zonal, Republican and all-Union art exhibitions in particular:
1. All-Union exhibition:
"Artists for children" (1967), "Glory to labor" (1976), "TransAuto" (1987)
2. Republican exhibition "Soviet Russia"(1960, 1965, 1975, 1980, 1985.);
3. All-Russian exhibition:
"Mine Nechernozemie" (1977), "60 years of Great October revolution" (1977), "The 25th Anniversary of the defeat of Nazi troops near Moscow" (1966), "At home country" (1981), "Defenders of the Fatherland is dedicated" (1990), "Still life" (1973), "Russian landscape" (Leningrad), "Exhibition dedicated to the 850th anniversary of Moscow" (1997), "Edge of inspiration" (1982)
4. Zonal exhibition:
"The Soviet South" (1964), "In the same order" (1969), "Artists of Central regions of Russia" (1974), "The suburbs" (1980, 1984, 1996), "Artists of Central Russia, Chernozemie and the black earth" (1997).
Op Klyukin participated in exhibitions in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Germany, France, USA, UK and other countries.
Reproductions of his works published in the album: "Painting masters of the Russian Federation", "for the Sake of life on earth", "Edge of inspiration", and others.
Painting P. O. Klyukina are 14 museums and galleries in Russia, including:
1. Central Museum of the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945gg. Moscow, Poklonnaya Gora;
2. Novgorod historical-artistic Museum-reserve;
3. Belozersky Museum of history and art.
In the art galleries gg Tver, Yekaterinburg, Bay Implementation, Krasnodar and Stavropol regions, the Chuvash AR, and others.
At the National Gallery of modern art Glasgow (United Kingdom), in galleries and private collections of France, USA, great Britain, Italy, Hong Kong and other countries.
The story about the artist O. P. Klyukin included in the American television movie "Face of Russia", which was presented to the US Congress in 1998году.