Timoshenko Ruslan

Biography

Honored Artist of Kalmykia, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR and Russia, Ruslan Vsevolodovich Timoshenko. Born January 13, 1934, in the village of Grigoropolisskaya, Stavropol Krai. 1949 - Graduated from the Children's Art School in Vladikavkaz
1956 - Served in the army
1959 - Graduated from the Art College in Vladikavkaz
1965 - Graduated from the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, Department of Artistic Graphics.
1965-1978 - Taught drawing and painting at the Faculty of Architecture of the Kalmyk Academy. G.A.T. Astana, Kazakhstan
1990 - Accepted into the Union of Artists of the USSR
2008 - Awarded the "Certificate of Honor" from the Government of the Republic of Kalmykia "For Contribution to the Development of Fine Arts and Active Creative Activity"
2009 - Joined the Union of Artists of Russia and the International Association of Fine Arts (AIAP UNESCO)
His works are in private collections in Russia, the USA, France, Mongolia, Slovenia, Iceland, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and elsewhere.
Over the last 40 years of his life, he participated in numerous exhibitions, including a solo exhibition. Ruslan Vsevolodovich Timoshenko participated in an exhibition in Angers, France, in 2003.
He worked in various genres and styles, primarily figurative abstractionism, cubism, expressionism, and some impressionistic landscapes.
The artist died at the age of 89 on May 27, 2023.

Here's what artist Ruslan Vsevolodovich Timoshenko wrote about his understanding of contemporary art in 1998.
""" The artist is constantly searching. He is interested in the development and formation of modern aesthetic concepts that arose within avant-garde art. Avant-garde art focused on the refraction of existential philosophy (Heidegger and Jaspers, Sartre and Camus, Croce and Ortega y Hess, etc.). The concepts of the intuitionist philosopher Bergson, who asserted that intuition reveals reality more fully than intellect, greatly influenced the art and theory of modernism. Freud's teaching "On the Specificity and Functions of Art, the Nature and Peculiarities of Artistic Creativity..." influenced the development of avant-garde principles. The world continues to change, and the language of art changes along with it. Visual language allows the artist to grasp the essence of things through understanding the chaos of structural, textural, textural, and color artistic means. Desiring to comprehend Unsolved mysteries, without touching the forbidden world, the artist explodes from within the mechanical and soulless existence of both himself and those around him. He strives to transform ordinary, banal objects from the plane of the real to the plane of the miraculous. A desire to liberate the existential nature of creativity arises. This, in turn, facilitates the germination of new ideas. The further liberation of the artist's spirit allows him to mystify the "world of people and nature," that is, the ability to reveal mysterious, supernatural forces through revelation and a certain mystical intuition arises.
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This is a more detailed creative biography of the artist!
""" Timoshenko Ruslan Vsevolodovich, born January 13, 1934, in the village of Grigoropolisskaya, Stavropol Territory. The artist worked for thirteen years as a teacher at the architectural university in Tselinograd (Kazakhstan). He graduated from the Vladikavkaz Art School, then studied and graduated from the art and graphic department of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in Moscow. He interned at the Moscow Aviation Institute on the course "Coloristics" (1976-1977). In 1990, he joined the Union of Artists of the USSR (Russia). As part of the students of the art school, he participated in the harvesting of virgin lands (1957-1958), was awarded the medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands" and a diploma from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan. While teaching at the architectural institute (1965-1978), he prepared materials for the defense of his dissertation on topic: "Methods and means of depiction in evolutionary development." He studied and applied in practice in teaching various approaches and features of drawing methodology in the architectural schools of the Moscow Architectural Institute, in universities of English schools, the Cuban architectural school, etc. After completing his teaching activity and moving to the system of art production workshops, he began to pay more attention to fine art. In 1988, he participated in the All-Russian exhibition "Space in the Service of Peace and Science" in Kaliningrad, in 1989 at the Second Republican Art Exhibition in Moscow. During the perestroika period, working as an artist-designer in Kalmyk workshops, R. Timoshenko founded the "Avant-garde Club" together with Yu. Davydov, S. Kotinov, V. Purinov and E. Sangadzhiev. The first exhibition-performance took place in the village. Malye Derbety and was dedicated to V. Khlebnikov. Then in the period 1991 From 2003 to 2008, eight exhibitions of the "Avant-garde Club" were organized in the city of Elista, as well as one in the city of Stavropol. In preparation for a trip to France in 2003, R. Timoshenko, S. Kotinov and S. Purinov held an exhibition called "Fleeting Meetings" in Elista. Then - in the city of Angers (France). Having stayed in France for two and a half months, R. Timoshenko completed a number of sketches, on the basis of which several large-scale works were created. In 2004, he organized a solo exhibition "Fartlek" (Swedish for "running with acceleration"). In 2008, he participated in two exhibitions dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the voluntary entry of the Kalmyk people into the Russian state (Moscow, Sochi). In the article "Kalmyk Fine Art" S.G. Batyreva examined the "avant-garde club" in the context of the development of the Kalmyk Fine art. In particular, the author considers R. Timoshenko one of the central figures of this movement in Kalmykia, and also cites his thoughts on fine art: "The liberated spirit" as a conscious attitude of artists away from the oppression of ideology and official taste... These ideas prompt the artist to mystify "the world of people and nature," that is, to reveal mysterious supernatural forces through revelation and a certain mystical intuition. P.S. ""The studio, where I spend a lot of time, is essentially a creative laboratory where the psychophysical effectiveness of color and form is explored, where, in my opinion, new plastic structures are created, and where new ways of sensory-emotional and intellectual contact with the subject-spatial environment are discovered.""""