one of the most promising graduate of Repin Institut. Alexi Perepelkin

Portrait. How we feel this genre.

PORTRAIT

Portrait may be one of the most complicated and fragile genre.
Complicated because complicated in the object of portrait genre - human.
Fragile, because one mistake and works is over.
By the way... Portrait never can be just "Ok".
Portrait  always is bad or good portrait.
Probably because of such strict criteria most contemporary artists try to avoid this genre of painting.
But inside category of realised portraits always exist the same dillema - bad or good.
Why? Because if in portrait accent is on the only beautiful young woman's face, it is not enough to be real portrait . true portrait should declare personality of the model. Without personality stay only manner of painting and we realise that all portraits are portraits of one abstract model.
Yes. Here may be excuse if it is not the portrait but more broad concept - genre portrait.
But genre portrait should be based on more complex composition....

But about it next time...

Vadim Suvorov

Olga Grigoryeva

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Alexi Borodin. Soviet artist

Tamara Kakysheva

Artem Rogovoi

Renat Ramazanov

Olga Grigoryeva

Sergey Skripitsyn

Vadim Suvorov

RWB Openeng at the California Museum of Fine Art. 2 Continents and 7 countries united by Art.

article about exhibition in FAC magazine 

California Museum of Fine Art

Brian & Dali Higa, Akhmed Salakhly, Vanessa Rothe 

Exhibition in Laguna College of Art and Design.

Russian Academy meets Russian Impressionism at 225 Forest ave opening Sunday the 9th, downtown Laguna Beach CA. 

10 march -12 april 2014

Art Trip by young Ukrainian artist Viktoria Kutukova

Invitation for Viktoria's exhibition in Gallery Russia

front of Gallery Russia

opening

demonstration of portrait

lecture in Scottsdale art School

Trip to San Diego.

Working in Cafe21