Cat world by Vladimir Rumyantsev

Cat world by Vladimir Rumyantsev
St. Petersburg based artist Vladimir Rumyantsev was born in 1957 in Cherepovets, Russia. He is a Member of society of water colorists of St. Petersburg. Vladimir began drawing at the age of four. He graduated from art school with specialization “commercial artist”. Later, Vladimir Rumyantsev graduated from the State Institute of painting, sculpture and architecture named after Ilya Repin in 1976. Vladimir Dmitrievich is a member of the Russian Union of artists. He has participated in many exhibitions across the country. Since 1995, a regular participant of exhibitions in the UK. His work can be found in the eight Museum collections, in private collections of Russia, Germany, Finland, the United States, Great Britain and Sweden.

The heroes of his paintings – cats. They are so expressive and painted with a sense of humor that can hardly leave anyone indifferent, and cat lovers may recognize their pets in cats by Vladimir Rumyantsev.

Rumyantsev’s Cats live in St. Petersburg. They communicate with the angels, walk on the roofs, sing songs, play golf, and enjoy fishing. In general, they lead a normal cat’s life. Many of them believe that “life is good”. Vladimir Rumyantsev infects cats and us, the audience, with love for life and optimism.

The great Russian poet was a true lover of cats, and adored these graceful animals, carefully watching them. In his literary works are mentioned a lot of real and mystical cats. Many of them were drawn in albums of ladies, on scraps of paper, on baize card-table. Most often, the poet depicted a fat cat sitting with its back to the viewer, with “ears on top” and curly tail. Such cat is drawn, for example, in 1833 in an unfinished draft of a letter to the mother of Natalia Goncharova. The most famous “cat” character in Pushkin – this is definitely a “cat scientist” in this fabulous poem:
There stands a green oak,
Golden Chain on the oak tree:
And day and night the cat scientist
Walks on the chain around.
He goes to the right – the song starts,
Left – the tale starts.
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