Unbearable clarity of being: gopnik and how they are seen by modern artists and illustrators

Clear-cut boys hanging out in paddies with chikuli, beer and semki. This is a separate layer of culture and society. About them and how modern illustrators see gopnik, see our material.

Of particular interest to the public are the works of conceptual artist Stefan Koidl from Hallein, Austria. The author creates illustrations on a variety of subjects, but the man is widely known for his dark fantasy settings.

But recently Koidl released another series of illustrations dedicated to "clear boys". In Koidl's view, gopniks are a special subculture that will flourish even in the future.

There is a statue of the "Great Gopnik" depicted here, well, young people huddle around their idol. The monument displays a distinctive feature of a typical representative of this subculture – the pose "on the courts".

What if Gopnik was a combat magician? And that's what!

But the artist called this picture simply – "Gopniktown".

The author of this illustration is an artist from Russia, known on the Internet under the nickname Vergvoktre. In his view, this is how gopnik achieve enlightenment.

Gopnik in the style of cyberpunk. The artist is someone under the nickname Étienne.

Another fantasy of the illustrator on the topic of how gopnik may look in the distant future.

Another breathtaking illustration Stefan Koidl. It, apparently, depicts gopnik from Chernobyl.

The title of this illustration is "Gopnik and Source Filmmaker". The author, known online under the nickname Rokatinsky, is praised by fans for the very vivid emotions they receive from the art. 

Kiev artist Ivan Semesyuk invented his own genre — greedy art or hop art, and he calls himself nothing else than "a goon artist".

Semesyuk's self-portrait.

Gopniks from his paintings live on the outskirts of Kiev and other Ukrainian cities.

Apparently, here Semesyuk drew an analogy with the "lone wolf" that every respected "kid" considers himself to be.

And here are some more drawings from the network of unknown authors:

Have you ever wondered what a mixture of gopnik and Japanese mafia looks like?

In such characters, seeds seem to replace any food and even water. Gopnik gnaw them constantly!

A typical picture that could be observed in any yard in the late 90s. The boys "burn out" over the joke, and a vulgarly dressed girl brightens up the languid expectation of the next liter of "beer".