Bridge. Painting

Pavel Otdelnov 1979 born in Dzerzhinsk, Russia. Member of the Moscow Artists' Union (Painting chapter) since 2006. Lives and works in Moscow. Pavel Otdelnov was born in 1979 in Dzerzhisk. From his childhood he considered himself as an artist although there were no other artists in his family. From 1994 to 1999 Pavel studied in Art College in Nizhny Novgorod, where an emphasis was traditionally made on working from life. To get to the College Pavel spent two hours in train daily. All this time he was busy with drawing. Daily train trips had a strong influence on the young painter, determining the central role of the road in his art. Pavel's first large personal exposition hold in 2006 in the Central Exhibitions Hall in Nizhny Novgorod was called "A way home". The theme of the road is also well noticeable in his college degree work "Cargo-200" made in 1999. The idea of the work was born during one of the sketches trips where the artist got acquainted with an Afganistan war veteran. Ex-soldier revealed to Pavel his fears of being died for a peaceful life when he came back from the war. Returning to his home railway station he couldn't leave it for a long time and go home. Impressed by this confession Pavel decided to create a generalized character of a veteran. Through the military registration of Dzerzhinsk he found all men who had taken part in the Chechen war and painted their portraits. The professors of the Surikov Art institute presented at the defense of the graduation project suggested Pavel to continue his education in the P. Nikonov's workshop. Composition and organization of the picture plane were in the spotlight of the workshop. But the main source of schooling was communication with Nikonov himself, who worked a lot and was concerned with the plastic problems he discussed with his apprentices. Issues of backdrop and atmosphere became the principal ones in Pavel's art dated to his study in Surikov institute. This tendency was mainly due to his ardour for painting of artists of the years 1920-1930s, such as A. Drevin, M.Sokolov, A.Labas. This passion as well as some journeys to Russian North and Central Asia resulted in a graduate work in Surikov institute devoted to the Gospel stories and defended in 2005. In 2007 together with his friend Egor Plotnikov Pavel visited metallurgical complexes of Western Siberia. It was a creative experiment aimed to reexamination of usual for soviet painters landscapes.