A HERO OF HIS TIME. CREATIVE PORTRAIT OF THE PEOPLE'S ARTIST OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION L.N. GOLOVNITSKY
The article is devoted to the work of sculptor Lev Nikolaevich Golovnitsky (1929-1994) - People's Artist of Russia, Laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize, Laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR named after I. Repin, full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, professor, academician-secretary of the Siberian-Far Eastern Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, head of the creative sculpture workshop of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The article examines the Chelyabinsk creative period (1955-1987), the peculiarities of personal worldview, reflection of historical events, the theme of a human fighter in the context of Soviet ideology and the creative method of socialist realism. Dotted lines indicate the artistic features of the author's graphic works related to the impressions of foreign trips.