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Cartoonist is an artist who walks the line between insult and wit, a good portrait painter with a subtle sense of irony in the perception of details, and a psychologist who captures the topical moments happening in life. And the caricature itself has always been a formidable weapon against offenders, enemies and those in power. Dictators and the ruling elite of all eras and peoples destroyed scoffers, sending them to be devoured by tigers, to the scaffold, to camps. But, despite such persecution, not a single government managed to eradicate the caricature.

Caricature with its horses goes far into the past. But this genre moved into the category of art during the time of Leonardo da Vinci. In the 18th-19th centuries, caricature began to thoroughly “warm up” the people’s relations with strongmen of the world this. And since the twentieth century, it has been an important political weapon that harms the authority of countries and political figures. Therefore, cartoonists are loved and revered by the people to the same extent as they are hated by the authorities.

The famous Russian artist Denis Lopatin (1977), one of the hundred best cartoonists in the world.
Denis is a diploma winner at many international forums, and a laureate of the “honorable mention” category at the Portuguese “World Press Cartoon” competition (2011), the world’s most prestigious forum for professional cartoonists and cartoonists. Until now, not a single Russian artist working in this genre has received such an honorary prize.
In the same year, Denis Lopatin took part in a worldwide competition of professional caricaturists on the social network Facebook and won the Grand Prix.

Denis was born and studied in Minsk, lives and works in Kamchatka, which the regional authorities are not very happy about. Since, being periodically persecuted by the “powers” ​​of this world, he creates a lot of problems for officials and judicial structures of the Kamchatka Territory. The master of the satirical genre has four subpoenas, repeated bans and censures to his credit. For seditious cartoons and caricatures in 2005, the governor of Kamchatka imposed a ban on personal exhibition artist entitled "Grimaces of Power". And the cartoonist believes this fact highest award I was hooked on my creativity.

Denis has an amazing talent as a portrait painter, brilliantly wields the weapons of satire and humor, masterfully using both good and evil irony. His cartoons and caricatures aimed at public people, recognizable by everyone, cause a genuine smile, irony or sarcasm. You can verify this by watching this review to the end.

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On April 26, an exhibition of 34-year-old talented cartoonist Denis Lopatin opened in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Arriving at the museum before the opening, Denis discovered that from the exhibition 6 works disappeared, These were mainly caricatures of Medvedev and Putin. So they didn’t get a place at the exhibition. Denis believes that politicians and officials should tolerate increased attention to the paparazzi, cartoonists, the whole society and not to freak out.

The cartoonist says that the drawing shows oligarchs with a hamster. And the director of the museum saw in the animal a baby rat, with facial features resembling famous character and put the crate out of harm’s way. I came up with names for the cartoon: 1) Prikfed him 2) Feed him, you fed him, otherwise he might bite him painfully!

It turned out that the caricatures of the “bear deputies” were personally removed from the exhibition by the director of the state-owned Kamchatka Regional art museum» Tatyana Bikovets. Everything about her, incl. and the artist Lopatin himself, they say that she is a good and decent woman. But, like many, he is a victim of current circumstances and lives in captivity of fear that it is better to remove it just in case, otherwise something might not work out. Those. Self-censorship worked for her, and apparently she has not outlived slavery in her soul. Because in Russia there are many examples when linguists and art critics from among the lackeys of the current government will easily reach a verdict that a given literary (or drawn) work, slogan, painting, drawing has signs of extremism, insults someone’s honor and dignity, but a trained court will only have render a verdict on such an examination to please the authorities.

The director of the museum who made caricatures of Medvedev, Putin and the oligarchs.

My colleague Vladimir Khitrov wrote about Denis Lopatin on Echo of Moscow last year: . In 2011, the artist became a diploma winner of two major international competitions- one took place in Germany, the other in Portugal. Moreover, the Portuguese “World Press Cartoon” is considered the most prestigious forum in the world for cartoonists and cartoonists. Previously, none of the Russian artists won anything on it. This year Denis exhibited in Poland and the Poles, who greatly value the sharply written word and drawn humor and satire, included Denis among the 100 best cartoonists in the world.

Denis’s first teachers: director of the Kamchatka regional art school Panteley Kirillovich Derevyanko and Lyudmila Anatolyevna Derevyanko

In April 2011, Denis Lopatin participated in the world competition of professional cartoonists in social network Facebook and immediately ruined the Grand Prix.

Has Denis encountered envy, intrigue, or bullying? After all, it is well known that the typical Russian intelligentsia is mutually hating, especially among creative people. The Kamchatka cartoonist replies that after the Facebook Grand Prix, some artists from other countries were freaking out that some upstart from Russia had taken first place. They launched virtual poison at him. Although the voting was fair, among the artists themselves. On the part of Russian cartoonists, Denis does not feel any malice or envy: “Ours are all affectionate and kind. Journalistic cartoonists and others don't feel threatened by me, that I'm invading their field."

Just a master - Viktor Shenderovich.

- Denis, are there any world-famous caricaturists who are an authority for you?

Certainly. These are the American Jason Seiler, the Swiss Alberto Russo, the German Sebastian Kruger, Curt Jones, the Englishmen Paul Noise and Rodney Pike, the winner of a bunch of awards, the Chinese Zhu Zun, Amir Mohamed Taqvi Ajan, and the Canadian Dominique Fieldert. By the way, she is the only female cartoonist with a worldwide reputation. There is a second so-called echelon of cartoonists. There are a lot of Latinos, because... They have a grotesque image of portraits, huge noses and jaws dragging on the ground. There are many famous Germans, French, Italians. In Russia there is a world-famous cartoonist, Zlatkovsky, winner of many awards, and it is difficult to reach his level. His cartoons are on Viktor Shenderovich’s website. This is an advanced cartoonist Vladimir Molchanov. From the newspapers, everyone knows Alexei Merinov, but I don’t know him, like the others. In Russia, I think there are few people like me who would do tank cartoons. This is, as it were, not a caricature, and not a caricature in pure form, and not purely graphics. This is something incomprehensible, mixed.

Denis appeared in Kamchatka newspapers in 2002. A tall, timid, skinny 25-year-old young man with an open, intent, modest look. He quickly won the hearts of readers. Just as thousands of radio listeners are waiting for the next “Access Code” on “Echo of Moscow” with the unique clever Yulia Latynina, millions of readers are looking for familiar names of authors in Russian newspapers. So Kamchatka readers waited for every issue of the newspaper to see Denis’s next cartoon.

Denis drew a lot, quickly and talentedly. He was given entire pages for comics. Everything worked out for him. The faces were recognizable. Denis belongs to the so-called. thinking cartoonists and he didn’t really need to chew on the plot. He began to be sued for his sometimes caustic cartoons. Once an exhibition was banned in last moment, because the governor considered that some of the cartoons insulted the dignity of some female officials.

There are many Zhirinovskys at once even when he is alone. VVZh is one of the favorite objects for caricaturists, satirists, and parodists

And one day he came to the judicial board of the Kamchatka region. Quietly and modestly, he painted the faces of the judges and participants in the process. Suddenly the judges became puzzled: “What are you doing there?” They demanded to show what he was drawing, and when Denis refused, the entire panel of three judges voted to remove him from the room. Thank you at least they didn’t decide to give the sacred fire of the Inquisition his sketchbook. This is, perhaps, the only absurd case of its kind in Russian and perhaps in world justice, which sometimes one would like to call crooked justice.

Crocodile tears . Parasites from Center “E” and Kamchatka’s Lubyanka came to the exhibition. They peered carefully at this picture. Because Someone informed them that in the image of a crocodile, the cartoonist hid the face of the new (old) president of the Russian Federation.

Denis, do you have a favorite type of technique, the materials you use to paint, how do you feel about graphics tablets?

I use the tablet, of course, as needed, when I need to do it faster. But the number is dead. To convey an idea I often use mixed media. This is not only acrylic, but sometimes I mix it with oil, pencils, pastels, gouache. Those. I use several techniques, sometimes using fluorescent paints.

When you felt a craving specifically for caricature, that you can do it. After all, there are a lot of artists, but not every one of them can portray something like this so that it makes you smile?

Yes, since childhood I have been drawing all sorts of things funny pictures, cartoons. And they constantly scolded me for this, demanding that I do something serious. Everyone thought it was bullshit, but classical painting, graphics are what you need. Those. I was constantly forbidden, and in the nursery art school, and at the Minsk College of Architecture and Civil Engineering they reproached me for doing something frivolous, and at the Belarusian State University of Culture.

Father. Or it seems to me, but the portrait exudes some kind of severity and bluish-cadaverous coldness...

Former leader of the Kamchatka party cell “Yabloko” Irina Yarovaya. Today he is a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from “ United Russia", Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Committee. in Kamchatka it did not pass the 2011 elections. President D. Medvedev gave her his deputy mandate. Therefore, she is not a people’s representative, but rather a Kremlin, presidential one. So maybe things will get to the point where deputies can simply be appointed.

Iron Felix

Master and master of Soviet-Russian film directing Nikita Mikhalkov

Fedor Bondarchuk

Mater TV Posner

Black Swan (Natalia Portman)

Stirlitz knows who painted the film about him

He writes about himself this way:
Artist of cartoons, caricatures, comics, tombstones etc. :)
Education: Minsk College of Architecture and Construction; Belorussian State University Cultures.

in the press since 1994.
Personal exhibitions:

1998 - Mogilev, Belarus
1998 - Minsk, Belarus
2000 - Lublin, Poland
2000 - Minsk, Belarus
2003 - Petropavlovsk - Kamchatsky, Russia
2004 - Tabor, Czech Republic
2004 - Petropavlovsk - Kamchatsky, Russia
2005 - Petropavlovsk - Kamchatsky, Russia
2011 - Petropavlovsk - Kamchatsky, Russia

In 2011, Kamchatka artist Denis Lopatin became a diploma winner at two major international competitions - one was held in Germany, the other in Portugal.
Moreover, the Portuguese “World Press Cartoon” is considered the most prestigious forum in the world for cartoonists and cartoonists.
Previously, none of the Russian artists won anything on it...

Awards and regalia:

Four court summonses for a cartoon;
One prohibited exhibition in the art museum, closed by the governor;
One summons to the prosecutor's office for a comic book;
One final warning from the media oversight commission;
One expulsion from the courtroom for sketching a trial.

In April 2011, Denis Lopatin participated in a worldwide competition of professional cartoonists on the social network Facebook and immediately won the Grand Prix.

Has Denis encountered envy, intrigue, or bullying?
After all, it is well known that mutual hatred is typical of Russian intellectuals, especially among creative people.
The Kamchatka cartoonist replies that after the Facebook Grand Prix, some artists from other countries were freaking out that some upstart from Russia had taken first place.
They launched virtual poison at him.
Although the voting was fair, among the artists themselves.

Black Swan (Natalia Portman)

On the part of Russian cartoonists, Denis does not feel any malice or envy: “Ours are all affectionate and kind.
Journalistic cartoonists and others don't feel threatened by me, that I'm invading their field."

Denis drew a lot, quickly and talentedly. He was given entire pages for comics. Everything worked out for him. The faces were recognizable.
Denis belongs to the so-called. thinking cartoonists and he didn’t really need to chew on the plot. He began to be sued for his sometimes caustic cartoons. Once an exhibition was banned at the last minute because... the governor considered that some of the cartoons insulted the dignity of some female officials.

And one day he came to the judicial board of the Kamchatka region. Quietly and modestly, he painted the faces of the judges and participants in the process.
Suddenly the judges became puzzled: “What are you doing there?” They demanded to show what he was drawing, and when Denis refused, the entire panel of three judges voted to remove him from the room.
Thank you at least they didn’t decide to give the sacred fire of the Inquisition his sketchbook. This is, perhaps, the only absurd case of its kind in Russian and perhaps in world justice, which sometimes one would like to call crooked justice.

“This is our life: we live in such a way that donkeys will like it”
- When you felt a craving specifically for caricature, that you can do it. After all, there are a lot of artists, but not every one of them can portray something like this so that it makes you smile?

Yes, since childhood I have been drawing all sorts of funny pictures and caricatures.
And they constantly scolded me for this, demanding that I do something serious.
Everyone thought that this was garbage, but classical painting and graphics were what we needed.
Those. I was constantly forbidden, and at the children's art school, and at the Minsk College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, they reproached me for doing something frivolous, and at the Belarusian State University of Culture.

Denis, just a few years ago your drawings were regularly published in Kamchatka newspapers. Today they are rarely seen. Why?

Now is the time when any newspaper can be pulled over for anything.
Editors simply don't want to take risks.
Moreover, some publications have already had troubles because of my drawings. Local politicians were “fed” by Soviet propaganda.
For them, being caricatured in a newspaper is something scary.
They, as usual, think that this will affect their career.

Crocodile tears. Parasites from Center “E” and Kamchatka Lubyanka came to the exhibition,
They looked closely at this picture.
Because Someone informed them that in the image of a crocodile, the cartoonist hid the face of the new (old) president of the Russian Federation.

- How did officials put pressure on editors?

Usually it ended phone calls with threats.
Although one of the vice-governors thought of sending an official letter to the editor of the newspaper demanding that they stop publishing cartoons and cartoons.
One day the prosecutor's office took over the case.
They called me in for questioning and found out whether I had the intent to sow ethnic hatred?
At that time, a cartoon scandal erupted in Europe after the publication of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad.
Islamists actively protested and made demands on the authorities.
I drew a comic about what they will turn into European cities, if all the demands of the protesters are met.
By and large, the drawing was harmless.
The Muslims, in any case, did not voice any complaints.

- Have you ever met politicians who liked how you portray them?

I suspect that secretly the former Kamchatka governor Mikhail Mashkovtsev always enjoyed caricatures of himself.

Former vice-governor of Kamchatka Alexander Drozdov, whom journalists nicknamed Goebbels because... he tried to control the press completely.
And he liked to say about himself: “I am a GRU colonel!”

- Nevertheless, it was he who tried to ban your exhibition at one time?

As they explained to me, he saw the exhibition poster literally two hours before its opening.
And, as they say, he went crazy - he threw heavy artillery into battle in the person of the head of the culture department.
He came running to Exhibition Center and in his characteristic obscene manner forced the paintings to be removed from the stands.
It was 2005.
The situation in Kamchatka then was relatively democratic.
The exhibition safely moved to the basement of the press house.
The exhibition there was a huge success.
And this is not surprising - after all, the governor provided excellent advertising...
By the way, today I understand that the communist Mashkovtsev, it turns out, was a very freedom-loving politician compared to his followers.

A good cook was constantly being prevented from making normal soup by a little rat rummaging around in his head with his recipes.

The cartoonist says that the drawing shows oligarchs with a hamster.
And the director of the museum saw in the animal a baby rat, with facial features reminiscent of a famous character, and put the crate out of harm’s way.
Because, like many, she is a victim of current circumstances and lives in captivity of fear that it is better to remove it just in case, otherwise something might not work out.

Those. Self-censorship worked for her, and apparently she has not outlived slavery in her soul.
Because in Russia there are many examples when linguists and art critics from among the lackeys of the current government they will easily reach a verdict that a given literary (or drawn) work, slogan, painting, drawing has signs of extremism, insults someone’s honor and dignity, well and the trained court will only have to make a verdict based on such an examination to please the authorities.

Father. The portrait exudes some kind of severity and bluish-cadaverous coldness...

- Is there an independent press in Belarus?

Eat. But she doesn't come out for long. As a rule, one number.

- How do you feel about the superstars of Soviet caricature, favored by the authorities - Boris Efimov, Kukryniksy?

On a global scale, they are, of course, not stars at all.
Level of cartoon and caricature in Soviet Russia was extremely low.
Real masters fled the country after the revolution.
Kukryniksy -talented artists, but they also lost greatly to their foreign colleagues.
As for Boris Efimov, even under the Tsar he published his pictures in glamorous magazines.
And then somehow in a unique way managed to adapt to any government. His work ideally reflected every zigzag of the party's general line.
And during perestroika, he also managed to brand party officials.
I am envious, of course, that Efimov lived to be 108 years old.
But how did he live them?
Always been a weather vane.
For me it's extreme point in the range creative biographies artists.
The other extreme is Latin American cartoonists who managed to draw one cartoon of a dictator, received a bullet in the forehead and remained in history.
They are certainly closer to me than Boris Efimov.
But I wouldn’t want to reach this edge either.
- Denis, are there any world-famous caricaturists who are an authority for you?

Certainly.
These are the American Jason Seiler, the Swiss Alberto Russo, the German Sebastian Kruger, Curt Jones, the Englishmen Paul Noise and Rodney Pike, the winner of a bunch of awards, the Chinese Zhu Zun, Amir Mohamed Taqvi Ajan, and the Canadian Dominique Fieldert.
By the way, she is the only female cartoonist with a worldwide reputation.
There is a second so-called echelon of cartoonists.
There are a lot of Latinos, because... They have a grotesque image of portraits, huge noses and jaws dragging on the ground.
There are many famous Germans, French, Italians.
In Russia there is a world-famous cartoonist, Zlatkovsky, winner of many awards, and it is difficult to reach his level.
His cartoons are on Viktor Shenderovich’s website.
This is an advanced cartoonist Vladimir Molchanov.
From the newspapers, everyone knows Alexei Merinov, but I don’t know him, like the others.
In Russia, I think there are few people like me who would do tank cartoons.
This, as it were, is not a caricature, and not a cartoon in its pure form, and not purely graphics.
This is something incomprehensible, mixed.

Denis, do you have a favorite type of technique, the materials you use to draw, how do you feel about graphics tablets?

I use the tablet, of course, as needed, when I need to do it faster.
But the number is dead.
To convey ideas I often use mixed techniques.
This is not only acrylic, but sometimes I mix it with oil, pencils, pastels, gouache.
Those. I use several techniques, sometimes using fluorescent paints.

- Is it true that caricature is the most complex form of portraiture?

Only if it is made with high quality. When you draw a cartoon, you must always imagine a real image of a person and create based on it new image- grotesquely exaggerated. This is not so easy to do.

- Do caricature customers express any unusual wishes?

People usually order gift cartoons for their loved ones.
And, naturally, they want them to look beautiful. Often you just have to draw a portrait of a person, but with a small body. Even better if this little man does something funny...
By the way, foreigners, on the contrary, are unhappy when they are not caricatured enough. Western artists distort facial features to the point of insanity.
If, for example, they draw a football player Ronaldinho, who has a horse’s jaw, then in the cartoon it simply drags along the ground. If they draw Obama, he looks like a Cheburashka.

-Have you ever drawn a cartoon to take revenge on someone?

No. Yes, it probably wouldn’t have worked out that way. Emotions still need to be high.

That is, when you depicted the face of the United Russia functionary in the shape of an ass, were you inspired by high emotions?

I believe that the viewer discerned the second meaning of this drawing. The ass is a metaphor for social and political activity United Russia official

- Thank you for the conversation, Denis. Can you tell me a parting joke that you think is funny?

I’d rather tell you not an anecdote, but an episode from history.
Alexander the Great's father Philip went with his army through the Balkans to conquer someone.
It was necessary to stop for the night, and Philip suggested a very beautiful and picturesque place for parking.
But the assistant said that it was impossible to stop in this place, since there was no grass around, therefore, the donkeys from the convoy would have nothing to eat.
“This is our life: we live in such a way that the donkeys will like it,” answered Philip.

And this is our gift to you!

Thank you!