A NEW Artist Added in the Thirteen Movement!

On a walk. 1929.

This month I have worked on and added a new artist in the Thirteen Movement, which I have opened in June, adding Tatiana Mavrina, I hope everyone have seen and loved her work. The second artist in this movement is Vladimir Alexeyevich Milashevsky.

So very different from Mavrina, he nevertheless is a true representative of the Thirteen group's way of drawing lightly, quickly, dynamically, as if on one breath, on the go. 

From a very young age I have been familiar with some of Milashevsky's illustrations for children's books. Now I not only know to put the name to the pictures and the style, but have discovered Milashevsky as an artist, a watercolor and easel graphic artist of a very high standard. As you know, I love graphic art and illustration, being the daughter of such an artist myself and growing up on this art, surrounded by it. It is an endlessly fascinating journey to see the artist and his or her path and outlook from an entirely different angle.

Milashevsky has found in children's tales illustration not only an outlet for his outstanding talent, but also the "curtain number three", so to speak, his way out of the impossible situation in which the authoritative dictate placed the artists in the 1930s. He could not conform to the required manner; he could not continue in his former free way; and so he found another door, and has managed to retain his individuality and his creativity within this niche.

I have been unsuccessful to uncover enough information about his life after 1940s. Information about him mostly turns around his early years and his illustration. Photos are virtually nonexistent. So if you have something to add - I shall be glad to know of it and its source, and add it for all. 

I hope you enjoy making his acquaintance.