Vladimir Mishin is a monumental artist. He entered the art school several times, created a unique mosaic panel in Chelyabinsk, and lives in this city.
Biography
Now Vladimir Gerasimovich is 79 years old. He already sees poorly, so he does not draw. But all the same, every day he goes to his workshop, sometimes even spends the night there.
The future famous artist was born in a small village. Vladimir was brought up in an incomplete family. He lost his father early, so he loved to watch the work of his friend Misha's dad. The comrade's father was a carpenter. Vladimir often came to watch this professional work. Then the boy returned home and made such airplanes out of wood, which were very similar to miniature copies of the real ones.
The boy began to draw early. At the age of 13, he made sketches in a notebook that he carried with him.
As Vladimir Gerasimovich said, seeing one of the children in the yard, he sat them on a bench and painted portraits of these children.
When the boy was in the tenth grade, he was offered to teach drawing. And he was practically the same age as those for whom he became a teacher. After graduating from school and receiving secondary education, Vladimir went to Leningrad to enroll in an art school. But the young man failed. Before that, the guy watched the film "Surikov", then he acted like that great artist. Vladimir Gerasimovich Mishin also vowed to himself that he would do it, and, ultimately, he succeeded.
Creation
When the young man nevertheless entered the Mukhinsky Art School, he was the only one on the course to receive only A's. When Vladimir was 22 years old, they bought his first job. The picture was called "Tatarochka".
Young artists were allocated 400 rubles each so that they could hire models to paint. As Vladimir Gerasimovich later said, he came to the Lenfilm studio to find models. There was no end of those wishing to earn that kind of money. Therefore, Vladimir quietly called some girl to draw her. He also said that 10 naked women could walk in his workshop at the same time. He taught them drawing, and they, in order not to pay for it, posed.
Detention
Once Vladimir Mishin came home after the holidays to the hostel. Suddenly he was detained and taken to the St. Petersburg prison. He sat there for 3 days. Then everything cleared up. His friend forged passports, and since Mishin adopted the manner of this friend in his artwork, they thought that it was Vladimir Gerasimovich who was engaged in forging documents.
Mosaic
He and a friend made the famous Chelyabinsk mosaic panel for a year, and before that Mishin had been thinking up a project for 4 years. As a result, he chose the most economical option.
For this mosaic, 40 tons of basalt were chopped at the factory. Then this material was transported by train and unloaded, but the artists were not informed. When Mishin and his friend came to this place, they saw that there was not enough basalt. Then, with difficulty, they managed to arrange for the missing material to be brought.
The artists made panels throughout 1976 - from early morning until late at night.
One piece of such a mosaic weighed 100 kg, so the artists had a hard time.
When asked if Mishin had tried to draw on a computer, he replied that it was enough for him to know a couple of buttons on the phone, and the artist was not interested in modern computer technologies.
