Video: "Expressive synthesis" by Viktor Sheleg
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Despite the variety of themes in art, the image of a woman has always been one of the central in any direction, be it painting, sculpture or photography. Cheerful and sad, strict and affectionate, suffering and giving her love, the woman was and remains a wonderful muse, which artists never tire of singing. Our today's hero is just one of the latter. His name is Victor Sheleg, and it is difficult to remain indifferent to his work.
On his canvases, the artist depicts a variety of women: they are seductive, mysterious, thoughtful, flirtatious, arrogant - but each work is remarkable for its amazing lightness, emotionality and expressiveness. The author himself defines the genre of his works as "expressive synthesis": the name of this new direction in visual art was given by Viktor Sheleg, and he is also considered its founder. Although, of course, the author can name his paintings whatever he wants, but in one thing he is definitely right: his works do not hold expression. Viktor Sheleg says that chaos is a source of inspiration in his work, and emotions and energy are its main conductors.
Viktor Sheleg is a famous Latvian artist. He was born in 1962 in the city of Lomonosov (near St. Petersburg, Russia). When the boy was three years old, his family moved to Latvia. Already at an early age, Victor was fond of drawing, and at the age of twelve he began to paint. It is noteworthy that the author mastered the art of painting on his own, he does not have a special art education.
Viktor Sheleg's talent was appreciated not only in his homeland, but also abroad: exhibitions of his works were held in Latvia, Russia, France, Finland, Australia, and the USA.
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