Viktor Zhukov
The art of silhouette (papercutting) brooks no fuss, it requires talent,
patience and persistency.
Victor Zhukov possessed all these features.
Artist "by the grace of God", scientist, poet, traveller, herbarium
collector, he was engaged in the art of papercutting for more than fifty
years, having created surprising series of silhouette miniatures depicting
moutains, plants, animals, postage stamps and, finally, people.
His work
amazes by irreproachable lines, harmony of "black and white". His
creations are run through by a fine sense of humour and, sometimes, are
featured with frank satire. No doubt that Victor possessed a "gift of the
gods" being one of the small quantity of masters who made their
contribution into the renaissance of the art of sillhouette - the art that
was almost forgotten in Russia.
People say that to get a sculpture from stone one should only remove
all
that is not required.
A talented silhouettist is capable of something more than that: from one
sheet of paper he creates two pictures simultaneously - "positive" and
"negative" ones. Creating such a pair is like a drawing made with a stroke
of the pen. Victor Zhukov, making use of well sharpened surgical scissors,
created such pairs of miniatures without any preliminary drawing made, and
right before the eyes of the astonished public. As they say: "Feel the
difference".
Attention: news!
Our Gallery has published an art album with the images of papercuts of the artist Victor Zhukov.
The album includes papercuts from a literary-art cycle "Wildness" (scenes of human prehistory).
It is the cycle from 98 satirical real-sized miniatures with author's signatures in English and Russian languages.
The dimensions of the album are 275 х 200 mm.
More information can be received by e-mail .
Presenation of “Wildness” series online
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