Anatoly Grigorievich Shakovets is a graphic artist, painter, book illustrator, and teacher. He has been a member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1989. He is also a laureate of the Murmansk Region Administration Prize for achievements in the field of professional skills.
He was born on August 23, 1950 in Murmansk. Anatoly Grigorievich graduated from the Yaroslavl Art College in 1970, and in 1980 from the graphic department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin, the class of Professor Gennady Dmitrievich Epifanov. His graduation work was to illustrate the novel by Miguel de Cervantes “The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha”.
In Murmansk, Shakovets worked as a graphic designer in the institutions of Murmansk, in the art and production workshops of the Artistic Fund of the RSFSR. From 1992 to 2012, he taught at the Fine Arts Department of the Murmansk State University for the Humanities. In the Murmansk book publishing house he designed about 40 books by Russian and foreign writers, as well as publications on local history.
The artist’s solo exhibitions were arranged in Murmansk, Luleå, Gällivare (Sweden) and in other cities and countries.
Anatoly Grigorievich is a representative of a realistic, academic style. He worked in the techniques of printed and easel graphics, watercolors and painting. The artist’s style is distinguished by its special softness and cohesiveness. In the Murmansk region, he was one of the few masters of etching, that is engraving on metal.
The artist said the following about his native land: “The Kola land excites me, it is close to me like no other.” He has depicted all seasons in his art, but the autumn nature has been more dear to the artist. Each of his landscapes has its own character and its own mood.
In the foreground of the painting “The First Snow” is a figure of an artist, who sits with his back to the viewer in front of an easel. A white hare perched next to the artist on the newly fallen snow. Despite bare trees and quite a gloomy cloudy sky, which is so typical for late autumn in the Kola North, the landscape does not cause depression — it is filled with silence and peace.
He was born on August 23, 1950 in Murmansk. Anatoly Grigorievich graduated from the Yaroslavl Art College in 1970, and in 1980 from the graphic department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin, the class of Professor Gennady Dmitrievich Epifanov. His graduation work was to illustrate the novel by Miguel de Cervantes “The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha”.
In Murmansk, Shakovets worked as a graphic designer in the institutions of Murmansk, in the art and production workshops of the Artistic Fund of the RSFSR. From 1992 to 2012, he taught at the Fine Arts Department of the Murmansk State University for the Humanities. In the Murmansk book publishing house he designed about 40 books by Russian and foreign writers, as well as publications on local history.
The artist’s solo exhibitions were arranged in Murmansk, Luleå, Gällivare (Sweden) and in other cities and countries.
Anatoly Grigorievich is a representative of a realistic, academic style. He worked in the techniques of printed and easel graphics, watercolors and painting. The artist’s style is distinguished by its special softness and cohesiveness. In the Murmansk region, he was one of the few masters of etching, that is engraving on metal.
The artist said the following about his native land: “The Kola land excites me, it is close to me like no other.” He has depicted all seasons in his art, but the autumn nature has been more dear to the artist. Each of his landscapes has its own character and its own mood.
In the foreground of the painting “The First Snow” is a figure of an artist, who sits with his back to the viewer in front of an easel. A white hare perched next to the artist on the newly fallen snow. Despite bare trees and quite a gloomy cloudy sky, which is so typical for late autumn in the Kola North, the landscape does not cause depression — it is filled with silence and peace.
