Victor Popkov’s creative evolution proceeded from the narrative and compositional clarity and openness of his early works to the metaphorical reflections on the past and the preservation of memory, to the comprehension of complex relationships between people, to musing over the purpose and responsibility of the artist.

Gradually, Popkov moved to supreme structure, pure metaphor and a high degree of conventionality, sophisticating the conceptual articulation of his later works.

Popkov’s creations are characterized by an acute vision of the surrounding world, an unprecedented concentration of personal experience, a special level of comprehension and artistic embodiment of time.

The master continues the national metaphoric tradition in his works hiding the key to national self-identification. The themes of life and death, good and evil, toil and war, love and estrangement that excited the master so much are still relevant in the XXI century as well.