Evgeny Maksovich Dobrovinsky biography

The history of the "Union of Youth" of the Polish school was then the strongest in the world. Tomashevsky brought up dozens of extra -class posters in his class, who then went to teach to other countries - from France to America. And it was precisely the meeting with his students, and even later acquaintance with him in Warsaw, who gave me an understanding of the poster. Until now, nothing is better than these metaphors, I have not seen posters.

They still captivate me instinctively. And why? Because I make posters, book layouts, theatrical advertising, draw a lot, and also engage in calligraphy, font and demonstrative art - performance: when in public in real time I create large calligraphic canvases. I used to be engaged in easel painting, now it is difficult for me, so I am engaged in easel graphics. I came up with a poster and a program for him-on a black-yellow background of a raven in a cylinder with a key on the nose.

It consists of 23 works and is called "signs of eternity." For example, for the school of the modern play by Reichelgaus, when it became theater, I came up with a logo with two black angels with a sickle and a hammer in my hands. Then I transferred these angels from the logo to the posters of productions. I came up with an additional difficulty to practice. And as a result, it turned out, it seems to me, very interesting.

Take a look at the Afisha “No Words”: there are white angels from the mouth of one silhouette, and they fly to the ear of another black color. People often do not understand each other - such a metaphor. With "Hermitage" another case. It began as a miniature theater, the theater is very sharp in the tongue. I came there when they put the Miniature concerts of our famous comedians-Roman Kartsev, Viktor Ilchenko, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, very witty.

And then Mikhail Levitin came there, and a large form appeared - an ordinary two -hour performance. I wanted to combine these stories and at the same time make a modern sign. So there was a simple red square - the letter “E” and the language with which I experimented for a long time. Until the fact that he took a bunch of photographs of different languages, and then, through the long road of purification, came to this form.

And it was such that I made an innovative concept for myself quite by accident. In the years of early perestroika, in the middle of the x, they began to appoint young directors, rename to theaters. We have an ordinary regional drama theater, and now we have decided to make a new experimental theater. ” Then, after all, posters were printed in size only 60 by 90 centimeters, there were no other printed cars.

Otar said “no” as “NET”, with a strong Georgian accent. So the logo appeared. And then, instead of individual posters, I suggested making an alphabet from posters with all letters and gaps for each play where the theater emblem and modernist geometric symbols would be present. In order to gain words from them later. I painted manually, cut it out, printed. And when these letters-plane letters appeared on the premier production of Romeo and Juliet on the walls of the city, everyone noticed.

Although I also have a Design sign on posters. This is a pure calligraphy - the letters "D" and "E" on the red circle. I tried to write them at least once, and then I chose one option. He simply wrote a poster pen-mainly in the army: on wall newspapers and some improvised posters. Here, by the way, do not confuse calligraphy and handwriting. For example, I have a very poor handwriting by nature, but when I did something consciously, I controlled my hand, brought out every letter.

And seriously took up the institute where I had a font teacher. Already after me, people began to contact me so that I would prepare their children for admission to the institute. Then the entrance exam on font was mandatory. We can say that he was engaged in tutoring. So gradually my workshop began to turn into a class and then a school. Who is mostly engaged in you - children, young people, adults?

Some are professionals who graduated from art institutions. Designers who want to master calligraphy to add qualities to their work. Others are not at all artists who want to master calligraphy as a hobby. One rule is valid for everyone - I immediately say that I need to come to me for a long time. At least a year.

Today, when a person’s life consists of point presses on the gadget touch panel, calligraphy as an art is something to study? Has our letter changed in recent years? The human hand becomes less skillful than in my times. When I went to school in the year, then there were non-prolibs, a fever with pressure, special prescriptions. So we were calligraphs compared to modern children.

Now people do not know how to write at all. For a modern person, it is especially necessary to keep the hand and thin motor skills of the fingers, which is associated with thinking. We can say that it is important to engage in calligraphy from a medical point of view. And in civilized countries they know this. For example, a group of American Calligraphs came to my workshop. They all earn what they teach at universities.And not even artistic, but physical and mathematical.

Calligraphy is a mandatory component of their education. Is this the same calligraphy, or are there any differences? Seeing - when they write letters, drawing them. Design the letters with a pencil, then paint. According to the process, this is more drawing. And the calligrapher forms letters in one movement. Like a clerk: somewhere by pressing, somewhere turning, somewhere pushing with the help of special tools, which now, by the way, there are a lot.

They would be different not at the expense of the color, but above all, forms. I would make them with different handwriting: Tolstoy - with a direct thick font, Pushkin - fugitive, ornate, similar to the one he wrote, and Dostoevsky - multiple and psychologically rich. RF "can be found books, performances, films. Share with our readers: what do you often revise or re -read from domestic works?

I somehow feed on this. But with films it is very difficult. I start to miss as soon as it becomes clear what they want to say to me. It’s hard for me to watch two hours even a very good film, so I'm not a movie person at all. The photos were provided by the organizers of the exhibition "Evgeny Dobrovinsky: Get ink and poster", which took place in the State Central Theater Museum named after Talked Tatyana Grigoryeva.