Antique painting "The Village in Winter". Author - Pavlishak IA Oil on canvas. USSR, 1960s. Iosif Andreevich Pavlishak (1923-1995) - Honored Artist of Russia, one of the creators of the Kaluga organization of the Union of Artists of Russia. A quarter of a century - from 1957 to 1982 - he headed it. It was at this time that the circle of professional artists of the Kaluga region expanded significantly, local artistic life acquired an organized and dynamic character.