The Art of Donbass

Vladimir Balakay

 Donetsk painter Vladimir Balakay is known by connoisseurs of art. Since 1958 he has given art exhibitions in Donetsk, Kiev and Moscow. He exhibited his paintings in the countries of Eastern Europe. His canvases are present in private art collections in Germany, England, Greece and Italy. Vladimir Balakay won the Arhip Kuindji memorial prize in 1998 and was in the "City and People" exhibition in Donetsk in 2003.

A master of scenery and portraiture, he has been creating the philosophical cycle "The Thoughts of Godsent" during the last ten years. The cycle unites 60 works dedicated to the two thousandth anniversary of Christianity. These paintings are not Bible illustration. They are thoughts of the past, the present and the future of humanity.

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Alexander Goloshuk

 The artist Alexander V. Goloschuk was born on 18^th of January 1946 in Nyjnya Krynka village in Stalino region (present - Donetsk region). Aleksander V Goloshuk is a property-man, graphic and poster artist. In 1971 he graduated the Odessa Theatre Art Technical College. He is a member of the Cinematographers Union since since 1977, Ukrainian Theatre Society (since 1983).

From 1971 till 1980 he worked at Sverdlov film studio in Russia as a scenery designer for the “Privalov’s millions”, “The strongest” movies. From 1974 till 1977 he worked as an art director “Malachite casket”, “The Landlady of the Coppery Mountain” “The Stone Flower” cartoon films. From 1980 till 1983 he worked as property-man at young people's theatre in Donetsk. He was an art director of “Buratino” by O. Tolstoy (1982, the director was V. Zakharov), “The seal-ring” (1983, he director was E. Khazanov) performances.

1983-1993 A graphic artist of Donetsk industrial artistic centre. He created a number of playbills, posters for personal and group exhibitions of Donetsk painters, for the performances of Donetsk Regional Opera and Ballet Theatre.

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