The Honored Artist of the RSFSR Viktor Nikolaevich Chulovich (1922–1994) was distinguished by the purity of his artistic vision and the ability to convey the poetry of the surrounding world through the most sophisticated shades. The artist was a prominent representative of the Moscow landscape school, an outstanding master of the “generation of the 60s”.

Viktor Chulovich had an expressive painting style. He gravitated to the so-called genre of “mood landscape”. In the pre-war period of the late 1930s, he studied in the workshop of Pyotr Ivanovich Petrovichev at the Moscow Regional Art School in Memory of 1905.

The artist Efrem Ivanovich Zverkov wrote,

Viktor Chulovich was gravely wounded at the front. In 1943, he entered the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), where his teacher was Fyodor Semyonovich Bogorodsky, the founder of the local art faculty.

After graduating from VGIK, Chulovich worked as an artist’s assistant at Mosfilm, became a candidate in the Moscow Association of Artists and completely devoted himself to painting. He began traveling all around the Soviet Union.

The emotional range of his landscapes was quite wide — from thunderous tension to enlightened, peaceful poetry. In his art, Viktor Chulovich was an observer, rather than a creator.

For him, the creative process began by choosing the subject of the image and the point of view from which he was going to convey his message. Thus, he worked as if according to a ready-made sketch that was forming in his mind. His paintings organically combined the authenticity of images with compositional thoughtfulness.

The artist painted the landscape “Autumn Twilight near Podol” in 1983. The painting immerses the viewer in a closed space. One can feel the autumn season quietly coming up. In the last years of his life, Viktor Chulovich worked mainly in the Tver Oblast, near Vyshny Volochok, which inspired new themes in his work. However, in his lyrical and poetic motifs, the artist remained true to his ideals — to discover the complex in simplicity and to reveal the big world of nature through a small scene.