I’ve always been interested in the work of color. Although I have paid tribute to the graphic arts at the time, painting remained the main focus of my creativity. Impressionists and Post-Impressionists were always the benchmark for me. They discovered painting as a work of color. Before them, color in a painting was secondary.
I divided my artwork on this web site into three parts: oil on canvas, oil on cardboard and work on paper.
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Twenty five years of teaching kids & grown-ups drawing and painting in the art studio on Baumanskaja Street resulted in writing a teaching book ‘Art School’ and some else books. The story of what later was named Baumanskaya School of Painting began here.
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The exhaustion of postmodernism is not a completely new topic. Men, society, and their interrelations have changed. And though the changes might not be universal or universally acknowledged, still, they create the request for a new art, a new philosophy, a new aesthetical and ethical reality; a request that postmodernism can’t fulfill anymore. And though some philosophers rush to claim there will be no other “new art”, in spite of the art circles exploiting (with greater or lesser success) the principles of postmodernism, this new art is already here. It is hard to discover, since postmodernism (that never had its own or unique style) used all possible styles, forms or combinations and turned the cultural landscape into a junkyard. And it seems appropriate to study the origins in order to find, discover, and sort out new art amid this mess. Continue reading