Andrew Pavlovsky

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Andrew Pavlovsky
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Born1962
Nationality Russia, Flag of Russia.svg
Known for Graphic design, Advertising, Painting

Andrew Rostislavovich Pavlovsky is a contemporary Russian artist. He is a member of the Moscow Artists Union, the International Federation of Artists (IFA) and Russian Philosophical Union.

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Biography

From the nobles of South-Western land of the Russian Empire and the Don Military Nobles. Among his ancestors are: participants of the War of 1812, listed on the memorial board of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior; Anatoly A. Linkov, a participant of the Ice March of the White Army (1918), (insignia 3543); and F.P. Kazantsev, the outstanding railway inventor and engineer[ citation needed ].

Andrew Pavlovsky was greatly influenced by: Dmitry A. Shuvalov (1932-2013) - Russian honored artist, the professor of Leningrad Art and Industry College named after Mukhina (nowadays – St.Petersburg Art and Industry Academy) and Serafim A. Pavlovskiy (1903–1989), (namesake) the graduate of VKHUTEMAS.

1984: Pavlovsky began his exhibitionary artistic career (painting). P. participated in a great variety of art exhibitions. Numerous paintings kept in private collections of Russia, Germany, USA, and Sweden.

1986: Pavlovsky undertook a position in design advertisement. Creative work in the field of advertisement design and exclusive representative polygraph productions. Cooperation/collaborated with: the Central Committee of the LYCLSU (Leninist Young Communist League of the Soviet Union), the Stas Namin Music Center (SNC), the publishing houses «Raduga», All Union Record Studio «Melodiya», the Central State Concert Hall «Rossiya», Mosconcert, Moscow State Philarmony, «MiG» corporation, VNPO «ELEKTRONIKA» etc... Designer of the contest of «Moscow beauty», the author of numerous commercial advertisements and representative posters of the show business stars and rising actors and singers. During the Perestroika period worked as the director of several advertising agencies: JUPITER (USSR- Hong Kong Joint venture) and SODRUZHESTVO (USSR-USA Joint venture) combining the work of the art-consultant and art-designer. Post-soviet times: P. had worked for RF Government Administration. State Department of Economic Development and Trade of RF, the Russian version of magazines ELLE, ELLE-Decor, Moulin ROUGE, ANTOURAGE, MEZZANINE, Russian Information Agency «NEWS». P. designed advertisements for such events as «Moscow days» in Warsaw, Prague, Madrid, Budapest (director and producer Sergey Vinnikov) and Vienna. P. was a producer of artistic-expositional projects (the latest producer’s project – «The portrait of science in centuries. Moisey Nappelbaum, Alexander Marov», St. Petersburg State Photography Center, 2007). 1987–1990 – P. had been teaching at the Studio of the visual perception esthetics «Studio A» where he had introduced a methodology to train a «Viewer». 2002 – Organizer and Chief artist of the creative association M’ART Group.

Aesthetics

The main field of activity is graphic design. P. is the representative of the transitional (soviet - post-soviet) artistic generation. He had made a contribution to form esthetics of modern Russian design in advertising-representative and advertising-publishing production. P.’s design could be distinguished as precise, conscientious, highly thought off and well-grounded. There are reconsidered and actualized elements of Russian constructivism in the basis of his esthetic conception. P. had introduced new term – Additive Constructivism. P. is the author of works that had become the characteristic examples of commercial posters and graphic design of the last twenty years (many of them are kept in the Russian State Library).

Projects

United Technologies in Russia 2002–2006. M.: UTIO. Client: UT International Operations (producer – Natalia Sorokina), 10 000 copies (four editions at two languages);

Promotional posters for Lora Kvint, Alla Pugacheva, Brigada S, RONDO, Korroziya Metalla, Scorpions (coupled with GP), etc. Regular publications of advertisements in magazines ELLE, ELLE-Decor, AD, MEZZANINE, Moulin ROUGE (Russian Editions).

Painting

The artist began as a painter. Painting gives him space for rest from modern design creative conflicts and serves as a platform for research in the field of color, proportions, and composition. It helps him to create the fundamentals (basis) of Andrey Pavlovsky design. The artist sticks to the Russian aesthetic tradition of the 20th century. He successfully projects it into his modern design works and paintings. He doesn’t have a large number of paintings though all of them burst with love for color and respect to the masters of the past.

Additional information

P. is the honored member of the Association of Biographic Researches WHO IS WHO with the presentation of the insignia (ZVR# 346 892 533) and certification for its bearing (RU02005850).

Sources

2002-2007

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