page_title: Vladimir Lisunov
section_title: Creative work
hierarchical_section_title: Vladimir Lisunov / Biography / Creative work
caption_attribution_description: English: Vladimir Lisunov. The fugitive, 1976. Canvas, oil. 108x187. Русский: "Беглец", 1976. Холст, масло. 108х187.
context_page_description: Vladimir Evgenievich Lisunov was a Russian nonconformist artist, member of the Leningrad unofficial art tradition of the 1960s–80s, poet, philosopher, romantic, mystic. Known as Lis among artists and close friends.
context_section_description: Vladimir Lisunov spent his whole life in constant creative searching. He was always experimenting and honing his painting technique, and explored various themes. Some of Lisunov's paintings are full of mystical images and bring us in to other worlds, whereas others depict stories from the Bible or rural landscapes. He also created a series of drawings called:  "Astral wanderings of the soul", "Landscapes of the soul", "Portrait of a woman", "Divas", "Aerial nudes", "Portraits of friends" and "Commuter train people".
  Wishing to distract himself from the harsh Soviet reality, Vladimir Lisunov immersed himself in mysticism and occultism, studying works by Papus, Blavatsky, and Castaneda, which had been copied out by hand, and this undoubtedly was reflected in his work.
  Not having his own studio and confined by his living conditions, Lisunov painted some of his pictures on a stairway landing, enduring hostile looks from passing neighbours. On his days off he often went out to the countryside in the Leningrad region, where he painted his series of landscapes called "Little villages" and "Winter scenes".
  As regards Lisunov's style, he called himself a mystic symbolist.
caption: The fugitive, 1976. Canvas, oil. 108x187.
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