Alexander Korotich | |
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| Born | May 11, 1960 |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, illustrator, designer |
| Website | https://korotich.design/ |
Alexander Vladimirovich Korotich (born 11 May 1960) is a Russian artist, designer, writer and teacher. He is a leading designer of Channel One, and art director of the project Zuza. A daily fairy tale for children.
Alexander Korotich was born on 11 May 1960 in Yekaterinburg (then known as Sverdlovsk), [1] son of Vladimir Ivanovich Korotich, professor of metallurgy at the Ural State Technical University, and Margarita Vasilievna Korotich, a teacher and translator. In 1977, after graduating from secondary school No. 36, Korotich entered the Sverdlovsk Institute of Architecture (now the Ural State University of Architecture and Art), from which he graduated with honours in 1984. [1] He then taught design at the university's department of industrial architecture, and in 1986 he entered full-time graduate school at the Moscow Architectural Institute, specializing in Theory and History of Architecture. In 1989 he completed his PhD thesis The Theme of Function in Architecture. He returned to the Sverdlovsk Institute of Architecture's department of drawing as an associate professor. In 1995, he created the Book Design department within the institute. [1]
In the 1980s, as a student, he made a cycle of scraperboard illustrations for J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings , [2] which in 1990 was awarded a diploma of the All-Russian competition of works for children. [1] [3] Later he created illustrations for a collection of Tolkien's fairy tales (including Farmer Giles of Ham and Smith of Wootton Major ) and poems. [1] [2] He prepared illustrations for many books, including works by Janusz Korczak, and a book of stories by C. S. Lewis, published in Russia. [3]
In 1981, after holding the first rock music festival in the Urals, Korotich established friendly relations with the poet Ilya Kormiltsev. This led to a unique design for magnetic albums of the group Urfin Juice (also spelt "Urfin Dzhus" and "Oorfene Deuce"). [4] [5]
In 1992, Vyacheslav Butusov, a friend from his student days, invited him to take part in the design of the album Foreign Land by the group Nautilus Pompilius, a successor to Urfin Juice. [5]
In 1998, Korotich was invited by Semyon Levin, head of the NTV-Design company, to develop a new design concept for the NTV channel, which in 1999 was awarded the National TEFI Award in the “Television Design” category. Since 2008, Korotich has been working as a leading designer in the ORT-design department of the First Channel television company. [1]
Since 2006, Korotich has been working on the Zuza fairy tale series for preschoolers, where he writes both prose and poetry, and creates the illustrations. [1] The romance of the Ural mining legends inspired Alexander Korotich to create his own quasi-historical epic Tales of the Mountain-Fish, which became the first book created using the samizdat Internet service “Ridero”. [6]
In 2006 he moved to Moscow to become a professor at the Moscow Architectural Institute. [3] Among the courses he has run was one on creative thinking with Inna Albertovna Salikhova. [7]
Cover of the vinyl record "Zuza. Songs and Dances" of the children's fairy-tale series "Zuza".
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"The Mistress of the Copper Mountain", also known as "The Queen of the Copper Mountain" or "The Mistress of the Copper Mine", is a folk tale of the Ural region of Russia collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov. It was first published in the 11th issue of the Krasnaya Nov literary magazine in 1936 and later the same year as a part of the collection Prerevolutionary Folklore of the Urals.
"Sinyushka's Well", also known as "The Blue Crone's Spring" and "The Blue Baba of the Marsh", is a folk tale of the Ural region of Siberia collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov. It was first published in the Moscow Almanac in 1939 (pp. 256–266). It was later included in The Malachite Casket collection. "Sinyushka's Well" is one of the most famous stories in the collection and is still popular nowadays. The story was translated from Russian into English by Alan Moray Williams in 1944, and by Eve Manning in the 1950s.
"Silver Hoof" is a fairy tale short story written by Pavel Bazhov, based on the folklore of the Ural region of Siberia. It was first published in Uralsky Sovremennik in 1938, and later included in The Malachite Casket collection. In this fairy tale, the characters meet the legendary zoomorphic creature from the Ural folklore called Silver Hoof. In 1944 the story was translated from Russian into English by Alan Moray Williams and published by Hutchinson. In the 1950s another translation was made by Eve Manning. It was included in James Riordan's collection of stories The Mistress of the Copper Mountain: Tales from the Urals, published in 1974 by Frederick Muller Ltd. Riordan heard the tales from a headteacher when he was bedridden in Sverdlovsk. After returning to England he rewrote the tales from memory, checking them against Bazhov's book. He preferred not to call himself "translator", he believed that "communicator" was more appropriate.
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The exhibition presents individual illustrations for "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien, created by artist Alexander Korotich from the second half of the 1980s until mid-1997, when the folder with most of the sheets was lost, as well as a number of illustrations for the book J. R. R. Tolkien. Fairy tales by the publishing house "Ural market", released in 1993.
The design of the magnetic album of the Urfin Juice group, 1982. Designer and artist Alexander Korotich.
The author of the texts is Ilya Kormiltsev. Alexander Korotich is an artist who designed all the magnetoalbums of the collective.
The first published book was "The Legend of the Mountain-Fish" by Alexander Korotich on the same day. Rideró
