Chernikov Vyacheslav biography

The illustrator of the book Vyacheslav Chernikov Artist Illustrator of the book Vyacheslav Chernikov Vyacheslav Alekseevich Chernikov began to work as a book illustrator at the beginning of X, immediately after graduating with honors from the Kaluga School of Arts with a degree in the artist-former. The first publications of his drawings appeared in the regional newspapers "Young Leninets" and "Banner".

These publications served as a good professional school for a young artist. It was in Leninza that he first published illustrations dedicated to the city of his childhood Borovsk. Borovsk in the coordinate system Vyacheslav Chernikova occupies a special place. This is his main topic, which is devoted to many series of works and easel works. Prokoshina "Province", they create lyrical memorable images of the Russian hinterland.

The unstable rickety houses, overgrown with giant dandelions and burdocks, with peeling plaster, opened with windows, unchanged colors on windowsills, cats, mailboxes, antennas - the surprisingly accurate world of Chichikov, Gagarin and our contemporary.

This is a lot of national, a lot of popular. This relatives Vyacheslav Chernikov with his beloved Bunovlets, whose artistic searches were directed towards folk culture. In contour carefully written out drawings of different years, the artist condemns not only the outlines of buildings surrounding objects, but also their volume. The frequent use of a frame organically inscribed in the space of the drawing, which is an active part of the image, “puts” its landscapes in the plane of the paper sheet.

In a more stringent and restrained manner, work dedicated to the sights of the Kaluga Territory-the Holy Pafnutievsky Borovsky Monastery. The repeating verticals of the chapel, the towers, the temple buildings pass the graphics and monumentality of the monastery. Direct lines of centuries -old buildings contrast with wavy contours of trees, plants, clouds. The chiaroscuro and volume here are built by white sections of the leaf and black silhouette spots using several stroke techniques.

Frequent long horizontal strokes send us to engravings of no less beloved graphic graphics In the skillful alternation of the black and white, the artist finds visual harmony. An original and poetic is the youthful series "Portrait with the road." It was created by the artist in thought about his place in life, about new roads, about meetings and losses ... Leaving the large planes of sheets untouched and fragmented, the artist achieved a feeling of endless cosmic spaciousness.

Thanks to the author’s imagination, the isolated areas, emphasized by a soft granular stroke, turn into planets and stars, surprisingly reminiscent of the world of the little prince Exupery. Chernikov’s work is deliberately not homogeneous, his work is very diverse. He uses color, uses pastel, wax crayons, felt -tip pen. Uses watercolor, gouache, colored pencils, colored mascara.

It works a lot in the field of digital graphics. Over the years of creative work, Vyacheslav Alekseevich performed many wonderful illustrations for books of various authors, numerous magazines have been designed. His special pride are books for children published in Russia and Belarus with huge circulations, and unique publications of local history literature dedicated to the Kaluga Territory and Borovsk.

Currently, Vyacheslav Alekseevich Chernikov works as the chief artist of the scientific and technical publishing house, which monthly produces five periodicals and books containing his endless design and artistic ideas. The material is prepared by the company.