Gorokhova Olga Yurievna: biography and creativity

Today we will tell who Olga Gorokhova is. Her paintings are of high artistic value, so you should talk more about this person. Our heroine is a famous Russian artist. She was born in Moscow in 1964, November 22.

Inspiration

Gorokhova Olga Yuryevna is a representative of minimalism and abstract expressionism. Influence on her had Mark Rothko. The main direction of her work is nudity. It is formed under the influence of Egon Schiele and Auguste Rodin.

A family

The father of our heroine - Yegor Gorokhov - art editor of the publication "Crocodile" since 1948, cartoonist, graphic artist, friend of the participants of the association Kukryniksy. During the war from 1941 to 1945 he mastered the specialty of a pilot. Since 1948 he worked in the publication "Crocodile", which he devoted more than 25 years. He published works in the magazines Ogonyok, Moskovskie Novosti, as well as the newspapers Literaturnaya and Nedelya Izvestia, and illustrated books by satirists. He was chairman of the Art Council of artistic and diorama-mock-up works of the Moscow branch of the RSFSR Art Fund.

Mother - Gorokhova (Klimova) Zoya Nikolaevna - teacher of French as well as Spanish. For more than forty years, she worked at IN-YAZ state courses. She was also a translator in Cuba from the Ministry of Education of the Soviet Union. The grandmother of our heroine is a veterinarian Klimova Natalya Fedorovna.

A life

Gorokhova Olga Yuryevna was born in the estate of Golitsyno. Until the age of 14, she lived on the territory of the scientific town of VIEV. There, her grandfather Klimov Nikolai Mikhailovich headed the department. Gorokhova Olga Yuryevna entered the institute. Her choice fell on the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after Lenin. There she gave preference to the Spanish branch of the Romano-Germanic faculty. Soon she married Menglet Alexei Leonidovich. He was the grandson of the actor of the Satire Theater. His grandfather was George Menglet, and his mother was Maya Georgievna. Alex was educated at GITIS. He attended a course at the Mayakovsky Theater and studied under Goncharov. Today is the leading actor and director of the National Theater in Australia, in Melbourne.

In the eighties, our heroine experienced a three-year vivid affair with the actor, musician and poet Peter Mamonov. These relationships have become the source of the best rocker lyrics. The artist called Mamonov “Ant”, he, in turn, “Fly”. From the first syllable of affectionate nicknames arose the name of the group “Sounds of Mu”. Then life brought Peter and Olga together with famous representatives of the underground, including: Natalya Vetlitskaya, Zhanna Aguzarova, Artemy Troitsky, Victor Tsoi, Boris Grebenshchikov.

The artist has a daughter, Maria Gorokhova, she lives in Ghent, is a freelancer. Her father was Andrei Davidyan, a musician and performer of songs.

Creation

Gorokhova Olga Yuryevna in 1990 studied painting at Santa Monica College in Los Angeles. She also studied at the Ghent Royal Academy of Fine Arts. She married Patrick de Klerk - composer, director of the Belgian festival KLARA. It was a strong and long union of creative people who shared common interests, ideas and tastes. Our heroine is a participant in the projects of the Ghent Gallery Entrepot Fictief and M'Ars - the Moscow Art Center. Since 1998, it has been a member of the "Club of Draftsmen" - the center of the avant-garde art movement in Moscow. Its organizer was L. Bruni. Our heroine annually participates in art fairs in the Netherlands and Belgium. Her creative workshop is located in Ghent, in Belgium. There she turned the house into a real art gallery and periodically organizes exhibitions of various contemporary artists. He is a member of the Moscow branch of the Russian Union of Artists, as well as TSHR. Our heroine has many admirers.


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