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Video: The northern capital in the mesmerizing paintings of the St. Petersburg "jazz watercolorist"
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Peter is an extraordinary city. A city of sublime romance, a city of free thoughts and art, a city of white nights and incredible architecture. And the air watercolors by Konstantin Kuzema, the famous St. Petersburg artist, dedicated to this city, are so bewitching and "fragile" that one can only contemplate them with bated breath.
It makes no sense to describe in words the creations of a watercolorist, since it is pointless to try to convey in words the smell of rain, the sound of the sea, a foggy dawn or the drops of a spring morning.
The painter's paintings are unusual and at the same time recognizable due to the unique manner of conveying light and shadow, halftones and highlights reflected in the water.
And with all that, for all that, the master's works are more like portraits of St. Petersburg architectural structures, rather than just cityscapes.
He subtly feels and conveys the state of the atmosphere, its variability, fluctuations and mysterious phenomena.
And looking at the unusually airy watercolors of the artist in love with his city, the poetic lines of the St. Petersburg poetess, journalist, author and host of programs on the TV channels "VOT!", "Radio Maria" and "Radio Petersburg", author of the projects "Green Wednesday "and" Conversations over a cup of tea "- Natalia Drozdova.
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A little about the artist who has already become a classic of watercolor painting
Konstantin Kuzyoma is a talented artist of watercolor painting, one of the most famous watercolors not only in Russia, but also in the world.
Konstantin Kuzema was born in 1962 in St. Petersburg. After graduating from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, he worked as a teacher of mathematics and electrical engineering at a technical college.
In 1989 he became interested in watercolor painting and left teaching. Since 1998, a member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists of Russia, and also Vice-Chairman of the St. Petersburg Society of Watercolorists.
The works of the "jazz watercolourist", as the artist is called by amateurs of watercolor technique, have spread all over the world and are in private and corporate collections in many countries.
Petersburg artist Ivan Slavinsky is considered one of the most expensive contemporary artists in Russia. And there were times when the artist signed his works with the name of his wife.
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