Background
Valyaryana was born on the 13th December 1919 in the town of Žlobin, Gomel Region, Belarus.
Valyaryana was born on the 13th December 1919 in the town of Žlobin, Gomel Region, Belarus.
After graduation from the secondary school, in 1935, she entered Vitebsk Art College. In 1939 V. Zholtak graduated from college by painting the work "In The Headquarters of the Western Front Armed Forces Revolutionary Council". In 1939 she was allocated to the Aсademy of Arts but couldn`t continue studies there due to the death of her father.
In 1939, Valyaryana Zholtak was assigned as a scene designer to the BSSR (Belarus) State Opera and Ballet Theatre (nowadays National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus) by the Council of People's Commissars BSSR (Belarus) State Board of Art. After the war Zholtak worked at the same theatre. In 1946 she began actively participate in republican exhibitions. In 1951 she left the theatre and devoted herself to painting. In 1952, V. Zholtak visited the Minsk studio of the BSSR (Belarus) People`s Artist Valyantsin Volkau. In 1951, she create the painting "The First of September" that was immediately taken to the All-Union Art Exhibition at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The painting became the first work in the collection of the National Art Museum of The Republic of Belarus. In 1952, she finished the canvas "Chinese Pioneeers Visit Minsk Pioneers" and in 1954 - "Winter Has Come". Both paintings were chosen for demonstration during the Decade of Belarusian Art and Literature in Moscow in 1995. In 1957, Zholtak painted "To Partisans for Help" and in 1965 - "Enemies Have Gone, the Blockade". In the early 1960s she painted such fresh and lyrical compositions as "Harvest. Autumn", 1959, "Spring. Daughter`s portrait" 1960, "To School" 1963.
From 1960s, she visited Siberia, Middle Asia, the Crimea and the Caucasus. During almost two decades V. Zholtak created series of landscapes of Zakarpatye, the Crimea, Novgorod, Pscov and Siberia. She visited on sketching trips places connected with the life of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: "At the Shusha River. The House Where V. I. Lenin Lived and ''Shushenskoye. The Court Where V. I. Lenin Lived'' (1970). V. K. Zholtak`s landscapes created in Belarus are of more reserved colours and greater tranquility. She often painted places connected with Yanka Kupala, Lepel lakes, Palesse bogs, picteresque banks of the Byarezina and the Neman; she also many times depicted to Belarusian architectural monuments: "High Water at the Byarezina (1958), May (1962), Spring Landscape. High Water (1963), May in the Forest (1971).
In the persistent search for new artistic methods, she turned to the portrait genre: Portrait of Eva Basak, a Milker from the Chyrvony Kastrychnik Collective Farm (1959), Portrait of Nadzeya Kandratseyna Mikhalevich, a Worker of the Novy Shlyakh Collective Farm in Minsk District (1962), Portrait of Nina Yakauleyna Nyakhaichyk, the Best Agricultural Worker, a Crop Grower of the Navy of the Novy Shlyakh Collective Farm in Minsk District (1962).
Still life became a real vacation for the artist. "Forest Bellflowers", 1958, became a momentous painting in her creative work. In still lives of the late 1950s- early 1960s the priority for her was to paint harmonious canvases of peculiar colour emotionally and expressiveness: Rock Lilly, 1957; Tulips, 1959; Poppies, 1961; Bellflowers. Spring from the Seasons series, 1966. From the late 1960s, V. Zholtak depicts objects in the general compositional context so that viewers see them as a part of the universe: Winter Still Life, 1968; Still Life with Autumn Flowers, 1972; Blue Still Life, 1974; Still Life with Begonia, 1974; And Outside is Winter, 1975; Autumn, 1975; Summer, 1977; Still Life with Folklore Ceramics, 1978. Mature works of V. K. Zholtak are characteristic of a deep associative fullness, harmonious colours and an extraordinary sense of proportion: Indian summer, 1981; Withered Flowers, Festive Still Life, Autumn Still Life, Summer, 1985; At the Studio, 1986.
Paintings are kept in the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War, the Contemporary Pictorial Art Museum in Minsk, the funds of the Belarusian Artist`s Union, and also in the private collections in Belarus, the Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Russia, Romania, the USA, Japan.
At the Shusha River. The House Where V. I. Lenin Lived
(At the Shusha River are trees with auburn leaves and wate...)
1970Shushenskoye. The Court Where V.I. Lenin Lived
(The composition builds around the faming effect. Housed a...)
1970Kremlin in Psov and Novgorod
1969High Water at the Byarezina
1958May
1962Spring Landscape. High Water
1963May in the Forest
1971Enemies Have Gone, After the Blockade
(These paintings show fragile and defenceless images of ch...)
1965Harvest. Autumn
(A theme -an everyday working life of the Soviet people. T...)
1959To School
(The painting is dedicated to the theme of childhood.)
1963The First of September
(It is an autobiographic painting. The painting depicts th...)
1951the canvas "Chinese Pioneeers Visit Minsk Pioneers''
1952Winter Has Come
1954To Partisans for Help
1957Spring. Daughter`s portrait"
1960canvas Forest Bellflowers
1958canvas Rock Lilly
1957canvas Tulips
1959canvas Poppies
1961canvas Bellflowers. Spring
1966Winter Still Life
1968Still Life with Autumn Flowers
1972Blue Still Life
1974Still Life with Begonia
1974And Outside is Winter
1975Autumn
1975Summer
1977Still Life with Folklore Ceramics
1978Indian summer
1981Withered Flowers;
1985Festive Still Life
1985Autumn Still Life
1985Summer
1985At the Studio
1986Portrait of Eva Basak, a Milker from the Chyrvony Kastrychnik Collective Farm
1959Portrait of Nadzeya Kandratseyna Mikhalevich, a Worker of the Novy Shlyakh Collective Farm in Minsk District
1962Portrait of Nina Yakauleyna Nyakhaichyk, the Best Agricultural Worker, a Crop Grower of the Navy of the Novy Shlyakh Collective Farm in Minsk District
1962He was a member of the BSSR Union of Artists (1949).
Being a delicate and modest person, she probably felt easier remaining alone at the process of creating a painting.
Valyaryana was married to Pavel Feliksavich Lipnitsky in 1940 and had a daughter.
