Elena Gorokhova

Elena Konstantinovna Gorokhova (Russian: Еле́на Константи́новна Горо́хова; February 19, 1955, Leningrad, USSR) - Soviet Russian painter, living and working inSaint Petersburg, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.

Elena Konstantinovna Gorokhova was born February 19, 1955, in Leningrad, USSR.

In 1951 Elena Gorokhova joined the painting department of theLeningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. She studied of Vladimir Gorb, Semion Abugov.

In 1957 Elena Gorokhova graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Josef Serebrany personal art studio. Her graduation work was a painting named "An Alarm Bell".

Elena Gorokhova has participated in Art Exhibitions Since 1958. She paint genre and decorative compositions, landscapes, still life. Elena Gorokhova works in the technique of oil painting, tempera painting, and watercolors.

Themes and characters of Elena Gorokhova's works inspired motifs of folklore scenes of Russian folk tales and legends. Her images are filled with allegory and symbolism. She prefers decorative painting with a clear silhouette, local color, symbolic composition, while maintaining constructive role of drawing. The color is decorative and "flat", often with a predominance of cool green and blue tones that permeate and unite scenic fabric and amplifying fantastic, sometimes mystical sound of painting.

Elena Gorokhova is a Member of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 - the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) since 1960.

Paintings by Elena Konstantinovna Gorokhova are in Art museums and private collections in Russia, France, Germane, USA, England and other countries.

Bibliography

• Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s. - London: Izomar, 1998. ISBN 0-9532061-0-6, ISBN 978-0-9532061-0-0.
• Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 360, 391-393, 396-398, 400, 401, 405, 443. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.
• Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. p. 78. ISBN 978-5-903677-01-6.