Oleg Tistol
Oleg Tistol is a Ukrainian painter, a representative of Ukrainian neobaroque, the one of leaders of a new Ukrainian wave.
Oleg Tistol was born in the township Vradievka in a family of scientistagriculturist Michael Fedorovich Tistol. In 1970 his mother, Bolgarina Valentina Sergeevna obtains a position of the regional management Head of culture. Oleg moves with his parents to Mykolaiv. He starts his art education in 1972 at the childrens art school which has founded in Mykolaiv on his mothers initiative. In 1974 he enters Kiev Republican Art School, the Department of Painting, and moves to Kiev. In 197879 he works as a designer in Mykolaivs Khudfond . Between 19791984 Tistol studies at the Lviv State Institute of Decorative and Applied arts. In 1984 1986 he serves in the Army in military unit Makarov1 where he gets acquainted with Konstantin Reunov.
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