Oleg Leonidovich Lomakin was a Russian Soviet realist painter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg.
12 Facts About Oleg Lomakin
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Oleg Lomakin was regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
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Oleg Leonidovich Lomakin was born on 29 August 1924 in the town of Krasny Kholm, Tver Province, USSR.
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In June 1942, Oleg Lomakin was drafted into the Red Army and took part in the German-Soviet War.
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In 1952, Oleg Lomakin graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Boris Ioganson workshop, together with Sergei Babkov, Leonid Baykov, Irina Baldina, Dmitry Beliaev, Abram Grushko, Marina Kozlovskaya, Boris Korneev, Elena Kostenko, Boris Lavrenko, Piotr Fomin, Vladimir Chekalov, and other young artists.
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Oleg Lomakin's graduated work was historical painting named "Mikhail Kalinin among their fellow villagers".
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Oleg Lomakin painted portraits, genre and historical paintings, landscapes, still lifes, sketches from the life.
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Oleg Lomakin's style distinguish a broad painting, energetic brushstroke, artistic transfer of tonal relations and states of lighting and air.
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Oleg Lomakin was acknowledged master of drawing and plein air painting.
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In 1952 Oleg Lomakin was admitted as a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists.
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In 1981 Oleg Lomakin was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
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Oleg Leonidovich Lomakin died on 25 March 2010 in Saint Petersburg in his eighty-sixth year of life.