Biography
The Russian artist Boris Diodorus more than half a century is engaged in creativity and reached unprecedented heights in art, becoming one of the leading illustrators. He painted hundreds of images to the most famous tales books.Childhood and youth
Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov was born in November 1934 in the family of the Moscow artist-designer and his wife. The boy grew under the supervision of the grandfather, who worked as the director of the three-neighboring manufactory and gathered the classic library before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.
The future illustrator lived in the center of the capital in a spacious 8-room apartment and thanks to regular classes, I learned early to read and write. In an interview, he told that she leafed the books in the morning and until late Night, and only the order could go to sleep.
The roman "War and the World" of Leo Tolstoy became the most favorite work, because there were many realistic paintings in the old edition. A four-year-old Borywie reviewed the battle scenes of Alexander Apsita, and the awareness of the wonderful penetrated him to the very deep.
At school age, hitting the institution where the children of Soviet artists gathered, diodine worked on painting and restoration of books. He independently created illustrations for Soviet stories and folk fairy tales and was regarded by teachers as a talented student.
In high school, receiving specialized art education, the teenager often walked at the exhibitions held in Moscow. He was familiar with Igor Grabarem - theorian and painter, as well as other contemporaries, distinguished in creativity.
In 1954, Boris entered the Institute named after V. I. Surikov and on the 4th year became the author of talented debut works. At the same time, the light saw the first book with his illustrations in which the technique called color etching was used.
Personal life
Boris Diodorre sometimes talks about the details of personal life, but does not like to remember marriage with actress Lyudmila Gurchenko. He was probably not happy with this talented, but the wayward woman, who in the early 70s thought only about the movies.The second wife of the illustrator artist was the beauty of Karina Filippov, by the time of dating divorced and partially lost faith in people. Boris breathed a new life into this woman, for many years she became the faithful girlfriend. Judging by joint photographs, the couple spent a lot of bright days.
Creation
Creating pictures on literary topics, Diodoruses found her own niche and soon became a famous artist in his homeland and abroad. Recognition came after the design of the "Wonderful Travel of Niels with wild geese", and the awards of national competitions gradually began to fill the house.
The favorite writers of young Boris, drawing watercolor and watercolor, were Pavel Bazhov, Hans Christian Andersen, Lev Cassille and Alan Miln. In the 1970s, the master did the covers for their works, in parallel creating a number of independent adult paintings.
Over time, exhibitions from published works began to be arranged in the old manor located in the Tver region. Then dioderter was presented on Biennale in the capital of Slovakia, where the illustrations showed not one year.
In the subsequent time, receiving a number of premiums in the field of book art, the artist became the author of the graphics to the fairy tale "Winnie Pooh and all-all-all". And for work based on books of other popular foreign writers, he was given a diploma named after Ivan Fedorov and the IBA medal in Leipzig.
At the beginning of the XXI century, Boris Arkadyevich visited Europe and collaborated with publishing houses around the world, including Japan and the United States. He met with a Danish princess, handed him the Grand Prix of Andersen, after he created the etching for the magical story "Thumbelina".
With such merits at home in Russia, the illustrator's biography changed, and in the Moscow Institute of Graphics and Art of Books, he was offered leadership posts. In early 2013, diodine became the director of the Creative Center and received new awards, diplomas and praise.
Boris Diodorre now
Shortly before the beginning of 2020, the famous illustrator artist noted in the Little Mermaid Fairy Tale and celebrated the 85th anniversary. Now he is a laureate of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of art and literature for works for children.Awards
- 1980 - Diploma them. Ivan Fedorova All-Russian Competition "Art of the Book"
- 1981 - Golden Apple (BIB Golden Apple) International Biennale Illustration in Bratislava
- 1982 - "Silver Medal" IBA in Leipzig
- 1986 - Diploma them. Ivan Fedorova All-Russian Competition "Art of the Book"
- 1987 - Honored Honored Artist of the RSFSR
- 1990 - Made to the Honorary List of Andersen International Association of Children's and Youth Literature
- 1996 - Silver Medal of the Academy of Arts of Russia
- 1998 - Diploma V. A. Favorsky All-Russian Competition "Art of the Book"
- 1999 - awarded the honorary title People's Artist of the Russian Federation - for great merits in the field of art
- 2000 - Gold Medal on Bennal Illustrations in Bratislava
- 2001 - Andersen Grand Prix in Odense
- 2002 - Honorary Diploma Andersen in the 50th anniversary of IBBY in Basel
- 2013 - Diploma "For a special contribution to the art of book illustration, loyalty to the aesthetic principles" of the All-Russian Book Illustration Competition "Image of the Book"
- 2019 - Winner of the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art for works for children and young people - for an outstanding contribution to the development of domestic and world art illustration