Dmitry Plavinsky

Born in 1937 in Moscow, Dmitry graduated from the Stage Design Department of the Moscow Oblast Art Teachers College in the Memory of the 1905 Uprising. The artist passed away in 2012.

Dmitry Plavinsky is one of the key figures of the Moscow non-conformist art of the latter half of the 20th century and founder of a distinct symbolical philosophy whose oeuvre received both domestic and international renown. The artist described his style as ‘Structural Symbolism’: fragmenting the world into symbols, he reassembled it in his paintings, drawings, prints, and collages. Plavinsky often chose to depict the artefacts of various cultures: primitive, Ancient Greek, Early Russian, and contemporary.