An artist from the Russian hinterland paints extraordinary paintings that are difficult to distinguish from coinage

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Nowadays, the fine arts, as never before, has an unlimited degree of freedom in the choice of themes, ideas, designs, and artistic means. Nevertheless, not many masters manage to surprise the viewer with their non-standard and harmonious combination of form and content. About one talented artist from Bryansk who managed to achieve this in full - our today's review. And how lively and interesting Sergey Kustarev he embodied his idea of imitation of volumetric embossing by means of oil painting - judge you, our readers.

Sergey Kustarev is an artist with great creative potential, constantly developing his skills. Working on himself, he is always in search of new horizons, which, of course, he finds and embodies in his canvases. He easily paints magnificent landscapes, makes classic portraits to order or with a free, extraordinary staging, turning an ordinary person into a fantastic image of a royal person or a warrior invented by him.

Thus, harmoniously mixing the palette of colors, imitating chasing, and also "seasoning" all this with talent and inspiration, the artist created a unique collection of works, the main role in which is assigned to imitation of volumetric texture under the metal and under the skin. It should be noted that such an extraordinary technique very quickly gained both domestic and foreign fans, and its author - good fame in many European countries.

The painting technique, combined with the embossed metal interior decoration, which gives a delightful decor to each work, is unique and unrepeatable in its execution.

The main theme of the artist's works is, first of all, the image of a woman. These are mostly original portraits, subtly and meticulously painted, the background of which is decorated like metal and leather. The artist's heroines are artistic, graceful and charming, mysterious, gentle and extravagant. Some of them resemble powerful and courageous Amazon warriors.

It should be noted that the artist in his works skillfully imitates several varieties of chased techniques: planar, relief, as well as patterned, made under, ornamental-punched chasing. Embossing is one of the oldest types of artistic metalworking, in which the finished product is "blackened" and polished, thus giving expressiveness to the drawing.

And Kustarev creates such an effect on his canvases by means of oil paint, prescribing with a thin brush every, even the smallest detail. This is really a laborious painstaking work of the artist that amazes the imagination of the audience. And of course it's worth it …

A few words about the master

Artist Sergei Kustarev (1973) hails from Bryansk. In 1993, after graduating from the Bryansk Art School, for five years he was a volunteer at the Mukhina Art and Industry Academy. Since 2002 - a member of the Union of Artists. Throughout his creative career, he was a constant participant in All-Russian and foreign exhibitions, thanks to which he gained considerable popularity among admirers of his talent.

One of the last projects of Sergei Kustarev - a cycle of paintings "Faces". These are portraits of different people, unexpected, colorful, made in his author's textured technique, which gives her an amazing volume and makes the viewer want to touch and understand that this is not chasing or leather, but real painting.

A talented artist never stops his creative movement, there are no final boundaries in his character that give complete satisfaction and enjoyment of success, he is always in search.

Continuing the theme of mixing styles, techniques and artistic techniques, we suggest looking romantic female portraits of the Moscow artist Vladimir Mukhin, who combined French Art Nouveau and Russian realism.