Leonid Vladimirsky (420 works)

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Favorite artists of our childhood - Leonid Vladimirsky - part 2 - BRAVE GIRLS AND OTHER FAIRY-TALE HEROES

“There are no and cannot be simple characters. I consider the most successful, of course, the images of Pinocchio and the Scarecrow. But the most difficult for me was the image of Lyudmila from Pushkin’s poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila.” This was my diploma work.

Everyone liked Lyudmila from the fairy tale, so I decided that everyone should like my Lyudmila too. At first I drew girls on the street, after which I showed the drawings to my friends. If even one didn’t like it, he rejected it.

This is how Lyudmil drew nineteen. Then I decided that I’d stop adjusting to other people’s tastes, I’d draw a Lyudmila that I would like myself. And I drew it. My friends looked and said that I had bad taste, that it was a waitress from a restaurant. And then I realized - I need to draw an image that Alexander Sergeevich would like. I thought - I did it. I placed a portrait of Natalya Nikolaevna in front of me and began to draw. This is how the sad Russian princess arose. By the way, all my friends approved this option." Leonid Vladimirsky