Makarenko Vladimir (b. 1943) "Composition". 1985 Paper, pastel, ink, pen, 23,4×29,9 cm.
In the lower right corner the author's signature and date: "Makar 85 Paris".
Nonconformist artist. In 1963 he graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk art school in the Studio of Y. Kalashnik. For his thesis "In the blue land" in the manner of "geometric realism" was accused of formalism, the painting was destroyed, and the artist is deprived of the opportunity to continue his studies in Ukraine.
He moved to Leningrad, where in 1963 he entered the monumental faculty of the Higher school of monumental art. V. Mukhina. In Leningrad, took private lessons in the studios N. Altman and P. Kondratiev. He was friends with artists M. Shemyakin, E. Rukhlin, V. Mishin, E. Esaulenko, V. Yankilevsky, A. Nemukhin and O. Tselkov.
In 1969 he graduated and received a diploma of monumental artist. In the same year he became a member of the informal organization of nonconformist artists, known in the West as the "St. Petersburg group".
In 1973 he was forced to leave Leningrad and move to Tallinn, where he quickly entered the artistic circle and took part in group exhibitions.
In 1974, together with F. Humeniuk, V. Sazonov and V. by Strelnikov exhibited at the exhibition of Ukrainian nonconformist artists in Moscow in the apartment of a Man.
In 1976 he held his first solo exhibition in Paris at the gallery Hardy. Living in Tallinn, he worked as a Stoker, refused to join the Union of artists. He worked in a small workshop, sometimes received orders for illustrations for magazines and Newspapers.
In 1973 — 1980 he annually applied for departure to France, and only in 1981 he received permission and moved to Paris.
Since then lives and works in Paris.