Alexander Pogrebinsky
Pogrebinsky in Paris (2004).
Born	January 2, 1951 Kiev, USSR

Alexander Petrovich Pogrebinsky (Russian: Александр Петрович Погребинский) (January 2, 1951 -) is a Russian-born American painter, the creator of the school of Philosophical Realism. He is known for his portraits, and especially for the mastery of detail in his paintings. Image File history File links Pogrebinsky30303. ... January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Location Map of Ukraine with Kiev highlighted. ... January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ...

In the Soviet Union

Bulgakov. 1988. Oil on Canvas.

Creation. 1987. Oil on Canvas.

The War. Oil on Canvas.

"Where Is The Truth?. Oil on Canvas.

Pogrebinsky was raised during the "thaw" of the Soviet Union, and was witness to a flourishing of artistic creativity that the USSR had not seen since the 1920's. Growing up in an artistic family, Pogrebinsky was constantly surrounded by painters and sculptors. Pogrebinsky's father was an artist, Peter Nikolayevich Pogrebinsky (1911-2002) and Lubov Romanovna Solona (1914-1990). Both of his parents belonged to the USSR Union of Artists, and were masters of the Socialist realism school of art. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (758x650, 273 KB) Bulgakov by Alexander Pogrebinsky oil on canvas (1988), 69” x 80” 172cm x 200cm File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (758x650, 273 KB) Bulgakov by Alexander Pogrebinsky oil on canvas (1988), 69” x 80” 172cm x 200cm File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (966x650, 544 KB)Creation oil on canvas 27 x 40 70 cm x 104cm 1987 by Alexander Pogrebinsky Source: www. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (966x650, 544 KB)Creation oil on canvas 27 x 40 70 cm x 104cm 1987 by Alexander Pogrebinsky Source: www. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (447x650, 139 KB)The War by Alexander Pogrebinsky part of the tryptich entitled Let There Be Sunshine Source: www. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (447x650, 139 KB)The War by Alexander Pogrebinsky part of the tryptich entitled Let There Be Sunshine Source: www. ... Image File history File links Truth420. ... Image File history File links Truth420. ... Melting - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Union of Artists of the USSR (Russian: Союз художников СССР) was a creative union of the Soviet artists and arts critics embracing the union republics. ... Roses for Stalin, Boris Vladimirski, 1949 Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style of realistic art which has as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism. ...

Pogrebinsky began studying French in 1958, and by the 1970s was fluently communicating with artists in Western Europe. In 1963, after successfully passing the rigid entrance exams, Pogrebinsky was accepted into the only art's high school in Soviet Ukraine. Though eventually becoming a painter like his parents, Pogrebinsky showed remarkable talant in sculture. A common understanding of Western Europe in modern times. ...

In 1970 Pogrebinsky entered the prestigious Kiev State Institute of Fine Art. For six years Pogrebinsky studied painting, which culminated in a Master's Degree. Throughout those years Pogrebinsky was extremely active in the art world of the Soviet Union. His works were obviously different from the classical trend of Socialist Realism, an example of which can be seen in a watercolor from 1971, In the Gethsemane Garden. The Garden of Gethsemane. ...

At the Kiev State Institue of Fine Arts, Pogrebinsky studied under Academician Victor Vasilievich Shatalin, who is also the People's Artist of the USSR. The teacher greatly admired Pogrebinsky's skills, and the two artist have remained friends to this day. After Pogrebinsky's graduation from the Kiev State Institute of Fine Arts, he began working as an independant artist, exhibiting in shows across the Soviet Union. In 1978 Pogrebinsky recieved the Lenin Prize in Art for his Komsomol painting. Maria Yermolova, first Peoples Artist of the Republic (1920). ... Lenin Prize (Russian: Ле́нинская пре́мия) was one of the highest awards in the Soviet Union. ...

In 1978 Pogrebinsky entered The Academy of Fine Art of the USSR, from which he recieved his Ph.D in Fine Art in 1984. In 1978 Pogrebinsky was accepted into the USSR Union of Artists, and later that same year was accepted into the USSR Academy of Arts. Though Pogrebinsky was successful, he could refused to join the Communist Party of the USSR, which could have given him even more success. While studying at the Academy, Pogrebinsky worked in the studio of Sergei Alexievich Grigoriev, who was also an Academician and a People's Artist of the USSR. At the Academy, Pogrebinsky worked under the supervision of Alexander Gritsai. For other usage of the initials CPSU see CPSU (disambiguation). ... The title Academician denotes a Full Member of an art, literary, or scientific academy. ... Maria Yermolova, first Peoples Artist of the Republic (1920). ...

Throughout his years as an artist in the Soviet Union, Pogrebinsky's works appeared on magazine covers, posters, and in national and internationl exhibitions. Many of his paintings were commissioned by the Ministry of Culture. Though many paintings were commissioned by Soviet officials, Pogrebinsky worked prolifically on many projects outside of Soviet officials. His paintings such as Bulgakov (1988), Vrubel (1988), In the Begining, and Creation, touched on themes not often accepted in the Soviet Union.

In the 1980's Pogrebinsky began using his family as models for many of his paintings, a practice that continues to this day. Pogrebinsky has used himself as a model in Bulgakov and Where Is The Truth? His family has been used in the following paintings: When The Gods Were Near, Le Louvre, Earth, Sun, Moon, Gold #2, Hiroshima, Let There Be Sunshine, The War, The Muse, Natasha.

Throughout the 1980s Pogrebinsky became increasingly popular with his social and political art, most of which focused on the inhumanity of war. Though becoming increasingly popular, owning a car, and enjoying a comfortable existance, Pogrebinsky still refused to join the Communist Party, and was weary of the future in the stagnant Soviet Union. With the tradgedy of Chernobyl, Pogrebinsky seriously began considering immigration. In a 1994 article in the Plain Dealer: In modern usage, a communist party is a political party which promotes communism, the sociopolitical ideology based on Marxism. ... Chernobyl area. ...

They [the Pogrebinsky's] had long doubted the benevolence of the government, but the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, 60 miles from their home, cemented their distruct. The disaster struck April 26, 1986. Word reached the Pogrebinskys about five days later. Before citizens even caught wind of the accident, the militia sealed Kiev to prevent an exodus. Meanwhile, state leaders in the region fled in droves. "We just started to see that everything we had been taught was not what they pretended," says Pogrebinsky, 43. "Chernobyl just showed that they didn't care about the people."_{Portrait of a gifted artist as a Ukraine expatriate. The Plain Dealer. April 13, 1994.}

In 1990 Pogrebinsky, his wife, and their two children used a travel visa to Paris to escape in December 1990. Travelling through Europe, the family arrived in New York City in January of 1991. Afterwards they won political asylum from the U.S. Government. City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ...

In the United States

As soon as Pogrebinsky arrived in the United States, he began exhibiting and painting. Among some of his earliest paintings dealt with religious and philosophical themes. Among them Where Is The Truth? A painting depicting Jesus Christ before Pontius Pilate. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Ecce Homo (Behold the Man!), Antonio Ciseris depiction of Pontius Pilate presenting a scourged Jesus to the people of Jerusalem. ...

In the 1990s, Pogrebinsky worked largely in oils and watercolors. He has painted the portraits of many religious leaders in the United States, and has taught Art and Painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art and John Caroll University. As in the USSR Pogrebinsky recieved many commissions, and became increasingly known for his realistic portraits. Among his personal works of this period, it is important to note the triptych Moon, Earth, Sun. Pogrebinsky used his family as models. This triptych was displayed at the artist’s one-man show at the Alla Rogers Gallery in 1998 in Washington D.C. In 1999 Muse, another personal composition, toured the world with other works of the Ohio Art Council. The Cleveland Institute of Art is a private college of art and design located in University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio. ... John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit university in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area in the United States. ...

In the mid 1990s Pogrebinsky began composing more and more still-lifes, and there seems to be a large fascination with light and roses. A whole series of rose paintings appeared from 1998, and continues to the present day. These are some of his most successful works.

Since immigrating to the United States Pogrebinsky has shown his work all across the country and the world. In the past few years his paintings have been exhibited in Paris, Chicago, Japan, Cleveland, San Fransisco, Santa Barbara, and on national and international tours. City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... This article is about Illinois largest city. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... This article is about the city in California. ... For a quick link, please see the city of Santa Barbara, California. ...

Philosophy

It was in high school that Pogrebinsky became interested in Yoga and Eastern philosophy. Though literature on Yoga and Buddhism was extremely difficult to come by in the Soviet Union, Pogrebinsky was able to aquire literature in French from the West, and in some cases Russian samizdat copies. Pogrebinsky was highly influenced by the philosophy that was rarely talked about in the secular USSR. A woman practising hatha yoga Eka-Pada-Rajakapotasana (Single-Legged Pigeon) demonstrated at a Hindu temple. ... Samizdat, book published by Pathfinder Press containing a collection of forbidden Trotskyist Samizdat texts. ...

Pogrebinsky's themes often gravitate towards the religious and psychological. And though Pogrebinsky is of no particular faith, his paintings show a universal interest in religions. Several works since the 1970s depict Jesus Christ. His tryptich Earth, Moon, Sun explores the individual and the forces of good and evil. Inspired by the philosophical writings of Goethe, Pogrebinsky included lines from Faust within the paintings. Many of his paintings deal with the subject of Creation. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (pronounced [gø tə]) (August 28, 1749–March 22, 1832) was a German writer, politician, humanist, scientist, and philosopher. ... Faust (Latin Faustus) is the protagonist of a popular German tale of a pact with the Devil, assumed to be based on the figure of the German magician and alchemist Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approximately 1480–1540). ... Look up Creation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Trivia

• Pogrebinsky was exceptionally gifted in sculpting, but decided to follow painting in high school.
• Pogrebinsky is fluent in French, Russian, English, and Ukrainian.
• His daughter is also an artist, Natasha Pogrebinsky (lives in New York City).
• Exhibited works at the Salon D'Autumn, in Paris, France.

Works

Roses Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (706x650, 103 KB)Roses by Alexander Pogrebinsky Source: www. ...	Ancient Vase Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (355x650, 39 KB)Ancient Vase by Alexander Pogrebinsky Source: www. ...	Vrubel Image File history File links Vroubelnegative. ...	Gethsemane Garden Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (360x650, 161 KB)Alexander Pogrebinsky In the Gethsemane 12 x 6. ...
Gold Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (904x600, 363 KB)Gold by Alexander Pogrebinsky year unknown 30 x 45 76 cm x 114 cm Source: www. ...	Natasha Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (434x650, 82 KB)Natasha by Alexander Pogrebinsky oil on canvas 36 x 24 91cm. ...	Buds Image File history File links 414c4. ...	Serenity Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (893x650, 163 KB)Serenity by Alexander Pogrebinsky Source: www. ...
I Pray For You Image File history File links 326iprayforyou. ...	Angel Night Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (833x650, 547 KB)Angel Night by Alexander Pogrebinsky Source: www. ...	Drawing Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (417x650, 258 KB)Drawing by Alexander Pogrebinsky Source: www. ...	Morning Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (363x650, 44 KB)Morning by Alexander Pogrebinsky Source: www. ...
Day Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (361x650, 41 KB)Day by Alexander Pogrebinsky Source: www. ...	Evening Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (360x650, 40 KB)Evening by Alexander Pogrebinsky Source: www. ...	Atlantis #2 Image File history File links Atlantis2. ...	Atlantis #5 Image File history File links Atlantis5. ...
Earth Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (497x650, 103 KB)Earth by Alexander Pogrebinsky Source: www. ...	Sun Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (411x650, 96 KB)Sun by Alexander Pogrebinsky Source: www. ...

External Links

• Alexander Pogrebinsky Official Site
• Pogrebinsky on Ask-Art.com
• Pogrebinsky on Art-Ring
• Interview with Alexander Pogrebinsky, 2003
• Online Gallery