Grigory Dolinin (Григорий Долинин)(1893-1943) was a Russian
poet. *1917, Yasnaya Polyana, Lenin *Death & Reception Dolinin
was born in Pochinok, a small Jewish community 50 kilometers (31
mi) southeast of Smolensk. As a child he lived in the same
street as El Lissitzky, who would later prove to be a key figure
in his artistic development. His father was the official
heraldic painter of the town. He was paid to record all official
events and to draw up new insignia for the locality. Dolinin
said in his 1937 collection of essays 'Collage-Collaboration'
that "He (Dolinin Snr.) did not create each work anew or
original, but relied on copying models and standards that he had
developed over time and then catalogued. Each commission would
be an assemblage of previous types, and his skill was in
composition - ensuring that nobody noticed. As far as i can
tell, this was common practice amongst painters back then, only
no-one attached fancy words to the strategy as they would now."
1 Dolinin was one of a limited number