Video: A talented artist or a successful art businessman: inimitable portraits of Nikas Safronov
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
More successful and popular artist than Nikas Safronov, modern Russia does not know. His name has not left the pages of the gossip columns of glossy magazines for decades. Legends about the "death" grip of an outstanding businessman, about enchanting energy, about remarkable ingenuity, which made Nikas famous and respected in record time, are simply stunning.
Popularity, even scandalous, came to Nikas in the early 90s of the last century, when he began to work on a series of portraits of Russian and foreign famous people. Subsequently, this series was named - "River of Time".
Idealizing and embellishing the familiar but popular faces of his contemporaries, the artist developed his own romantic style, echoing the Flemish school of painting of the Renaissance. Using modern technologies, the painter skillfully managed to fill his paintings with the spirit of history. Famous personalities, "frozen" on canvases in unusual images, appear before the viewer as heroes of the subjects of ancient paintings in costumes of bygone eras.
The paintings depict the presidents and high-ranking officials of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, America, the ruling monarchs, celebrities of the cinema and the music world.
The main part of the artist's canvases is kept in world museums and private collections in Russia and abroad with the stars of politics and culture, such as Sophia Loren, Pierre Cardin, Alain Delon, Madonna, Alla Pugacheva, Montserrat Caballe, Philip Kirkorov, Leonardo di Caprio, Nikita Mikhalkov and many others.
Stunning psychological portraits built on symbols, metaphors, subtle associations, interweaving of historical eras, immerse the viewer in a fantastic space of feelings and emotional experiences.
The provocative works of Nikas Safronov - half-people, half-cats, half-dogs - are quite in the spirit of the present time, and in the spirit of the creativity of the most extraordinary master. His life and his works are one continuous web of contradictions.
- this is how one of the most famous Russian artists Ilya Glazunov once spoke about Nikas Safronov.
Despite the polarizing opinions of critics, the works of Nikas Safronov are in great demand. For more than 30 years, his canvases have occupied a worthy place at the largest domestic and foreign exhibitions, about 800 paintings have been acquired by collectors and are kept in museums and private collections. Is this not a confirmation that Nikas is one of the most famous artists of our time, who during his lifetime deserved worldwide recognition.
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