Creative work of V. N. Antonov (1938-1980) as representative of the South Ural informal art

The author refers to the insufficiently known pages of history of the XX century Russian artistic-graphic creativity, particularly to the "informal art". V.N. Antonov was one of the representatives of this movement; he was not understood and recognized as an artist, his tragic life was inseparably linked with all the events in the country that took place in that time. The survey analysis of the remained artist's works is given in the article, the author attempts to introduce them to the cultural and scientific circulation.