Tropical flower Painting

Caricaturist, graphic, painter Academic at the Russian Academy of Art Born: 21 May 1848 in Moscow 1967-1972: worked as an apprentice engraver, and then as an engraver of printed forms at the Moscow Printing Press of “Goznak”. Author of the engraving for five stamps and postcards done on metal in the style of classic carved engraving. 1984-2000: was the head artist for the most famous Russian Caricatur magazine “Crocodile” and a member of the editorial board, and in 1999 became the assistant to the head editor of “Crocodile”. From the beginning of the 80s worked as an illustrator for the magazine “Youth” and “Rural Youth”, for the newspaper “ Moskovskaya Pravda”. 1987: A book in the series “Great Soviet Caricaturists” was published at the Soviet Artist publishing house Starting 2003 worked on the series “Past and contemporary outstanding people in graphics, painting and caricature Starting 2007 a member of the Russian Academy of Art From 2003 until now do oil paintings, portraits, landscapes, still lifes and abstract paintings Have done drawings for the following magazines: The Times, Newsweek, the New Yorker (USA), Courier International (France), the Kioto Simbun and the Japan Times. "New Times", "New Russian Word". My drawings have also been in many publications in China, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, Canada, Australia and many other countries. Vladimir Mochalov did the illustrations for the diafilm “Vitus Bering”, as well as the illustrations for children’s books among which were “Peter Pan” by James Barry, “Tim Talyor” by James Cruise and “Mary Poppins” by Pamela Travers, “The Flying Wolf” by Gregory Oster, and “In the Cold Sea” by Anatoly Mityayev. Interesting facts In 1993 Vladimir Mochalov received a personal letter of gratitude from the president of the United States, Bill Clinton, for the political caricature of him. In 1997 Vladimir Mochalov established a record for the number of caricatures done in one hour (111 portrait caricatures resembling the subjects) fixed by the newspaper “Komsomokolskaya Pravda” In 2002, one of the best caricaturists in the world, Vladimir Mochalov, expanded the range of his artistic endeavors and took up oil painting. As the artist himself admitted, oil painting was his most hated subject at art school and the institute. But almost 40 years later when he took a brush and oil paints into his hand, he fell in love with oil painting.