Josef Tali was born in 1960 in Vinogradov, a small
picturesque town in Ukraine on the Hungarian border.
In his childhood with the help of his first teacher, P.P. Kotsan, he started to paint watercolors
which where his first nature study.
In 1987 he started his education in Academy as an external student at the studio supervised by
academician A.A. Mylnikov - the very reputable professor of painting.
As a student J. Tali did researches into traditional methods established by old painters
reading and painting copies of masters' pictures in the Hermitage. Working at his diploma canvas
he sculptured clay models to examine the form, space, light, perspective, composition of his
future picture. This tradition descends from Michelangelo, Paolo Veronese, Jacopo Tintoretto,
Nicolas Poussin. His diploma work "Feet washing" got the praise at the Academy council. The
subject is taken from The New Testament.
Later he became increasingly interested in Modern and painted in the style of Gustave Klimt.
In every picture he follows the principle of a gold section, diagonal and active zones. One of
the important aspects of his classical approach is the imprimatur technique that Rubens would
use. Having worked in France, J. Tali changed the color range of his palette sine that light
colors are at the core of his vision.
His pictures were exhibited in France, in the Christian Plassart gallery, in Duran's gallery in
Madrid, John Nikolson gallery in London, River gallery in Chattanooga (Alabama, USA), galleries
at Saint-Francisco and New York. As a member of the Association of artists he takes part in the
exhibitions annually held by the Association and the Academy.
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