Velerii Lamakh


Velerii Pavlovych Lamakh was a Ukrainian Soviet graphic artist, and a prominent representative of the sixties generation and of underground art. He was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR since 1956.

Biography

In 1939, he entered the Voroshilovgrad Art School. During the German-Soviet War, he was deported to Germany for forced labor. Upon his return, he continued his studies at the school, which he graduated in 1949. In 1949–1954, Vasyl Kasiyan studied at the Faculty of Graphics at the Kyiv Art Institute. He worked in the field of poster and monumental and decorative art, and created a number of works of art in the technique of painting and mosaics in the cities of Kyiv, Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ternopil, and others.
From 1952 he participated in art exhibitions. In 1956–1964 he was an editor at the GOSIZ and Mystetstvo publishing houses. Since 1974, he was an Associate Professor of Book Decoration at the Kyiv evening faculty of Lviv Polygraphic Institute, named after I. Fedorov. He was a teacher of drawing, painting, and composition.

Writings

Velerii Lamakh's work, like that of the other best representatives of the Soviet intelligentsia, was divided into official and unofficial. The first part included monumental and decorative works:
The artist, for ideological reasons, could not disclose his most sincere and secret thoughts and created while in the underground. His search for a new artistic language, reflections on the art and structure of the universe, Lamakh embodied in abstract works, manuscripts of the book "Skhemy."
Mosaics

Documentary