Dmitri Plavinsky

Dmitri Plavinsky (1937-2012) was a Russian artist, one of the founders of artistic nonconformist movement in Moscow in the 1960s. He called his own art system “structural symbolism”. His main themes were Time, Memory, Music, Word. Very meaningful for the artist were the symbols of the turtle and the fish. He worked in many techniques: oil, polyvinyl-acetate tempera, acrylic, plaster, collage, wood, etching. He is the author of the graphical Book of Grass. He traveled in Central Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Central Asia, Greece, Italy and Israel, and impressions from all these travels can be found in his works. From 1991 to 2004 he worked in the USA. Philosophical and religious themes were inherent in his works.