At the studio.
Vital was born on the 1st of February 1913 in the village Radzeeva, Budakashaleva District, Gomel Region into the family of village teachers. The parents possesed a good library, his father was interested in art and there were a lot of reproductions of the Itinerants (V. Petrov, I. Repin) at home.
In 1929, Vital graduated from Minsk School. From 1929 to 1932, V. Tsvirka studied at Vitebsk Art Training College (nowadays Vitebsk State College of Arts and Culture). In 1935, he entered Moscow State Art Institution under the guidance of famous Russian lasndscape painters S. Gerasimov, G. Ryazhsky, P. Pokarzhevsky, B. Ioganson, A. Deineka, I. Grabar.
During studies at university, Vital created a series of sketches. V. Tsvirka depicted peculiarity of southern nature in them: "Morning in a Kishlak"; "On a Donkey"; "Uzbek Courtyard". From 1948-1953, he taught drawing, painting and composition at Minsk Art College (nowadays Minsk State Art College named after A. Glebov), in 1956-1963 V. Tsvirka was the head of the Painting Department in the Belarusian Theatrical and Artistic Institution. In 1958, he was appointed rector of the Belarusian Theatrical and Artistic Institution (nowadays Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts).
In the middle of the 1950s he experienced a new creative rise due to general changes in the social and artistic spheres of life in the country.The painting "At the Watermill", 1954 could be called such a turning point in his creative work. From 1961-1967, Vital was the Secretary of the Board of the USSR Union of Artists and from 1962 to 1963 V. Tsvirka was the Chairman of the Board of the USSR Union of Artists.
V. Tsvirka created many landscapes that became classics of Belarusian painting: "Braslav", 1966; "In Pesky", 1966; "Homeland", 1968; "Zaslavl", 1974, etc. In the 1980s he took a great interest in the genre of still life which greatly enriched his experimental creative work. Still lives were full of intimacy and coziness notwithstanding epic emotional compositional solutions: "Still Life with a Vase. Autumn Motif"; Still Life with a Mirror".
V. Tsvirka's landscapes in watecolours are distinguished by incredible freedom of technique and singularity of images: "Late Autumn", "Thaw", 1975; "Logoisk Area", First Greenery", 1980, etc.
Paintings of V. Tsvirka are kept in the National Art Museum of the Republic of (156 paintings), in the funds of the Belarusian Union of Artists, in the Museum of Modern Fine Art in Minsk, in the State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War, in local history museums of Belarus, in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and in other museums of the Russian Federation and also in private collections in Belarus and other countries.
March
1947March.Cold Day
1947At the Watermill
1954Logoisk Tale
1960My Motherland
1960On Lake Svir
1962The Neman
1962Tale about Polesye (1964-1965)
Braslav
1966In Pesky
1966Homeland
1968Stolbtsy
1968Gancha is the Land of Partisans
1969Kalozha
1969Zaslavl
1974The Sun in March
1982Rosy Day
1982Late Autumn
1975Thaw
1975Logoisk Area
1980First Greenery
1980Melted Snow
1980Orthodox Church in Zaslavl
1980Roman -Catholic Churchin Rakov
1980He was a member of the Organizational Committee of the USSR Union of Artists (1933), Moscow section of the USSR Union of Artists and Belarus Union of Artists.
Quotes from others about the person
B. Krepak: "His bright and unconventional talent could not be limited by any canons existing in art. The artist created his own peculiar style based on the fusion of impressions about nature observation".
