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Alexander Evgenyevich Tikhomirov () is a Soviet and Russian artist.

People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2006), corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

The author of a new direction in painting, registered in the Russian Author’s Society in 1995 under the name “Oconopainting”: religious subjects made by tempera on old shutters.

Biography
Tikhomirov A.E. was born on March 11, 1956 in Elektrostal, Moscow region, in a family where his father, Tikhomirov Yevgeny Georgievich, was an artist who passionately loved painting and his wife, Tikhomirov Lyudmila Vasilievna, an engineer who worked at the Elektrostal plant.

About a year before graduation from school, in 1970-1971 in the gallery. Elektrostal held a personal exhibition of his father, which made a great impression on Alexander Evgenievich.

In 1973, Alexander graduated from secondary school No. 2 and entered the Moscow State University of Memory of 1905. After completing the 1st year, he went to serve in the Soviet army (1974-1976) in Klintsy, Bryansk region. Returning in 1976 from the army, he continued his studies at the Faculty of Painting and Pedagogics.

I was lucky to learn from the Great teachers: Bulgakova Matilda Mikhailovna led painting, where the conversation was not about warmer-colder, but about the “test” of color, its jewelry. The drawing was taught by a beautiful watercolorist and man Karpushin Yuri Mitrofanovich. The composition was conducted by Osip Abramovich Avsyan, who dissected the works as a surgeon and explained the concepts of rhythm, contrast, pause, balance, dynamics, etc. on classical examples. The diploma was conducted by Dubinchik Alexander Mendelevich (Ili Mikhailovich, as he usually imagined himself). Participant of the Great Patriotic War, a beautiful painter, the smartest person, a subtle psychologist, communication with whom brought great pleasure and some discomfort and a feeling of some “lilliputovnost” next to “Guliver”.

The commission was divided in choosing the topic of the diploma in half. Some advocated the composition “Creativity”, others for the triptych “Village”. Alexander Tikhomirov defended himself, having made 2 diplomas for the first time, besides, triptych.

Having received “excellent” in 1979, he entered the Moscow Higher Art and Industrial School at the Faculty of Monumental, Decorative and Applied Arts, the Department of Monumental and Decorative Painting, in the workshop of Geliy Mikhailovich Korzhev.

At the entrance exams he wrote “naked” in the conjure, arousing great interest from Filatchev Oleg Pavlovich, who immediately recommended admission.

In 1982, he was baptized by Stepanida Ivanovna Popkova, the grandmother of Yuri Popkov’s friend, who served in the Tarasov Church. They were baptized secretly, without witnesses, not recorded in the book. They could have kicked me out. Stepanida Ivanovna, the godmother, said then: “Now you must continue the work of your godbrother Victor for the glory of God and Russia...”

Later, in 1989, when the concept of “Okonopis” was given in a dream, I realized that the baptism was not accidental, as in 1984 the end of Stroganovka and the move to Blagoveshchensk (August 2).

There was a lot of work in the specialty. A number of large objects made by d