Yuriy Klapoukh is a contemporary realist artist from Ukraine. The master is inspired by the beauty of everyday life, the native landscape and the characters of loved ones. Information about the life and good pictures of Klapoukh will be interesting to lovers of new and classical art.
Curriculum Vitae
Ukrainian painter was born in 1963. After graduation, Yuri entered the Higher Military Engineering School in Kharkov. In 1985, the young man graduated from high school with honors. According to his first education, Yuri Alexandrovich Klapoukh is a designer of aviation equipment.
Professional career was short-lived. A promising engineer moved to Moscow and became a student at the Surikov Institute. Since 1993, Yuri Klapoukh is a professional artist. The first major work of the master - painting of the Holy Alexander Nevsky Church in Kharkov.
Since the mid-1990s, Yuri Klapoukh has been engaged in secular art. The artist's works were shown at expositions in Ukraine, South Africa and European countries. In 2003, the first solo exhibition was held in Germany.
Klapoukh - participant and laureate of international competitions. In 2009-2010, the Ukrainian master received 2 prizes of the Art Renewal Center, a scientific organization supporting contemporary realist artists. In 2011, Yuri was awarded the diploma of the Holy Synod and the Order “In Honor of 1020 Years of the Baptism of Kievan Rus” for painting the Alexander Nevsky Church.
Since 2019, the artist lives in Kharkov. The master’s paintings are in private collections of domestic and foreign collectors. Klapoukh's works are exhibited at the Kiev Gamma Gallery.
Characteristic of creativity
Yuri Klapoukh - an artist working in the technique of oil and acrylic painting. He creates beautiful paintings. The best paintings of the master belong to 4 genres:
- Scenery.
- Story painting.
- Still life.
- Portrait.
Klapoukh's painting is imbued with sympathy and tenderness for the depicted people, objects and landscape. The artist continues the traditions of romantic realism of the XIX-XX centuries. The plots are taken from modern reality, but placed outside the political and ideological context. The author of the paintings expresses a personal emotional attitude, without drawing attention to social problems.
Portraits
All men and women depicted in the paintings of the Ukrainian master have real prototypes. The heroes of the portraits are personally acquainted with Yuri Klapoukh. The artist knows the circumstances of life and the characters. Direct communication with models helps Klapoukh to show their human personality on the canvas.
The master attaches great importance to the details of figurative works. Gestures and poses, clothing and background talk about the nature and fate of posing men and women.
Landscapes
Native open spaces - one of the favorite stories of Yuri Klapoukh. The artist paints seascapes, forests and plains with winding paths, rocky streams. Views of villages and pastures tell of a serene life away from cities.
Klapoukh's landscapes are filled with freshness and silence, which can only be broken by the singing of birds, the mooing of cows or the murmur of a forest source. The paintings leave a feeling of light sadness, make one admire the quiet beauty of the depicted nature.
Still lifes
The charm of everyday life is the leading theme in the subject painting of Yuri Klapoukh. The artist demonstrates the lush beauty of garden flowers, the intricate contours of forest mushrooms and the delicate blush of domestic apples.
Everyday food in Klapoukh's paintings turns into an object for creative comprehension. In the still life “Breakfast of the Artist”, the glossy brilliance and delicate edges of fried eggs cause the viewer not only appetite, but also aesthetic pleasure.
Story painting
In the genre works of Yuri Klapoukh scenes of rural life prevail. The artist writes villagers in moments of rest from economic worries. The characters are surrounded by a free landscape and simple work equipment. A cloudless sky completes the picture of idyllic life in harmony with nature.
2 genre works - “Thirst” and “Serious Intentions” - brought Klapoukh awards in the Art Renewal Center competition. Both canvases show moments from the everyday life of village old people. Details reveal the hidden psychologism of the scenes.
In "Thirst", an elderly woman sits near a dish with ripe peaches. The heroine touches the fruit, and the gesture of her hand betrays her indecision and a dumb question: try or refuse? A woman admires the rosy fruit and does not dare to upset the harmony achieved by nature.
In "Serious Intentions," a couple of old people are talking while resting on haymaking. The man shares with the interlocutor "grandiose" plans. A woman listens to him with a smile. The viewer can only guess what the "serious intentions" of the old man are and whether he will fulfill his plan.
Klapoukh Video Blog
Since 2017, the artist has been leading a Russian-language channel on the Internet. Klapoukh publishes video tutorials on drawing, as well as oil painting and acrylic paints.
Blog content is designed for beginner and professional artists. The channel has video instructions for children on drawing nature.
Each lesson is a visual master class by Klapoukh, accompanied by comments by the author. In the videos you can see the whole process of creating a portrait, landscape or still life.
Klapoukh Yuri Alekseevich shares his own creative techniques and reveals the secrets of old masters. For example, in one of the lessons, the artist offers to learn how to write oak by Shishkin.