Victor Zelik and his contribution to the fate of contemporary art

This artist himself calls Slavic, but not defining the nationality, but according to the fact of birth and residence in the Ukrainian city of Slavyansk. Today Victor Zelik is proudly honored with the title of recognized master of easel watercolor painting.

The artist graduated from the Kharkov Academy of Design and Arts. And while studying, and throughout the creative path for him, the study of the works of Mikhail Vrubel and Valentin Serov became fundamental in the formation of artistic culture. No less influence on Viktor Zelik was provided by other artists of the expansive association of the end of the XIX century, called "The World of Art". In unison the main idea of ​​this association, the work of Viktor Zelik himself became a way of expressing the personality of the artist.

by Vladimir Kush

All of them are well recognizable, they are united by a common theme. A street musician playing the violin, a girl hurrying to the beach, a Jew reading the Talmud, a lonely man under an umbrella. Actually, lonely on the canvases of Victor Zelik are even ships, cats and cars. And the psychological center is always not a person, and not an object, but the city landscape itself.

The artist's fame has long since left his native country. His works are kept not only in the collections of Slavic, Kharkov, Donetsk and Kramatorsk museums, but also occupy a worthy and honorable place in private European and American collections. Some of them became a true poetic inspiration. The painting, which is called "Walk", provoked the poet to write poetry, and "Saxophonist" made the writer write a story. If one creativity generates another, then the world of modern art has no reason to worry about its fate.