Vladimir Zagorov

Vladimir Tolstoy (Zagorov) was born in 1951 in Krasnodar. After graduating from the School of Painting of the Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (mural painting class of Andrey Mylnikov), from 1987 to 1991 he taught at the Alexander von Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design. The artist lives and works in St. Petersburg.

For Vladimir Zagorov, a painting is the result of encountering reality, experiencing, and interpreting it. The artist calls himself a realist depicting a very private kind of reality – his own. Zagorov’s principal tools for conveying his perception of it are colour and light which he uses to modulate figurative and abstract forms, increasing or reducing the degree of decorative effect and creating emotionally compelling visuals.