Silko biography

The artist skillfully combined the innovative approach and fresh artistic ideas with plastic and decorative properties of such difficult material as sulfide glass. In years, he worked at the Krasny May glass factory, first by the artist, and later the main artist. Anatoly Silko worked both on a mass assortment and on purely copyright works, creating decorative ensembles, compositions and plastic objects.

For many years of search and experiment, they have brought their fruits in the form of new technological finds and artistic techniques that allowed the author to create a number of wonderful works with a rich color palette. For example, a combination of green and blue colors with pink cannot be called the most harmonious, but Anatoly Silko managed to skillfully combine them. The decorative composition of the “Boroviki” is made in the form of two large vases resembling mushrooms-boroviki, the volume and shape of which is masterfully emphasized by the color transition from dark brown to light sulfide glass The decorative composition “Boroviki” is made in the form of two large vases resembling mushrooms-bruises, the volume and shape of which is masterfully emphasized by a flower transition from Dark brown to light sulfide glass in the glass fund of our museum stored a large round jug, reminiscent of a watermelon with a thin curved handle in the form of a watermelon “tail”, and a rounded glass that makes up a single ensemble with a jug.

The color of objects is emphasized by light riveting, giving them a game of light and shadow. Bright color, contrast and original author’s plan were connected in the ash “Eight”. It is spectacular not only its shape with bent inside and closely reduced in the center sides that form the silhouette of the number “8”.

An additional decorative effect gives the ashtray the contrast of the walls of the bright red external layer with the white milk color of the internal layer. This is not just a household thing, but in a sense, an author's art object. The artist owned the technique of processing and manufacturing objects not only from sulfide, but also from transparent glass. One of the early works of Anatoly Silko in the glass fund of our museum is the “Transparent” vase, made of smoky transparent glass with a decor in the form of belts over the entire surface.

An unusual form of a vase with an extended side, its decor and color are very harmoniously combined. In it you can see a glass for the wine “Roomer”, popular in medieval Europe, and a vase for flowers of an unusual shape, and just a creative search for the artist. The works of Anatoly Maksimovich Silko are stored in a number of Russian museums as the most famous works of artists of the Red May glass factory, and the articles and essays of a number of leading domestic art historians are devoted to his work.