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Carnival

By Maria Knyazeva

Beautiful and mysterious Venice is always associated with the canals, gondolas and, first of all, its traditional carnival. It is the carnival that has inspired Maria Knyazeva to create a picture of the same name. The compositional centre of the canvas is formed by the figures of two young girls having  hoop skirts and masks on. They are traditional participants of the majestic performance, where everybody plays their roles. It does not matter what time or country they are from, or if it is just a fantasy of the artist. The only thing we want is to look at this canvas and enjoy the enchanting action of the fairy tale, coming  true.

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Pantomime Actor

By Julia Bobrova

Pantomime is a special kind of art, a special way of existing in art and a special way of communicating with the world and its people. Pantomime is our most beloved genre: lyrical, funny, cute, plain, silent, academic, black-and-white, playful, interactive, simple, complex, intimate, rare, festive, non-invasive, demanding, plastic and exactly like what you see… Why is it without words? Because in life there are secrets that can not be told with words.

Leonid Engibarov,
Art critic

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The Holy Family. Triptych.Central Part

By Tamara Kamaeva

Three large canvases form the triptych, devoted to “The Adoration of the Magi” , one of the central themes of the Biblical cycle. The central picture depicts the Holy Family while the right and left parts show the Magi. The large figures, wide dense brushstrokes, the well-organized and clear composition, the attention to details fill the pictures with rigor, grandeur and solemnity.

The central canvas attracts viewers’ attention with the soft light emanating from the Christ Child. His glow unites and emphasizes the relationships between the figures of the composition meaning love, tenderness, care with a touch of sadness, as if anticipating the dramatic future. The figures seem to appear from the vibrating background, their shapes melting, which makes the image resemble a fairy-tale.

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Forest Path

By Julia Bobrova

Autumn is a magic season when drizzles and heavy rains wash away the thick dense greenth from the trees and grass, baring the variety of the autumn palette. In the picture the forest is depicted in the bright red and orange colours of the Indian summer. Painted outside the workshop from life in a quick, emotional manner the forest fills the viewer’s soul with those  excitement and impatience that usually emerge when you come across an artist’s successful work. The way this picture’s colour concept conveys the mood and the feeling of the autumn make it a success.

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Mountain Tops

By Julia Bobrova

In the picture of Julia Bobrova “Mountain Tops” romantic pathos of the image of the mountain tops which are so uncompromising, so attracting power and challenging for the unknown, turns  into some symbol of  beauty and unattainability. Here the Earth and Space are combined together in the single concept of the Universe. Natural beauty fills the soul of a man with some festive music as if the temporal world is purified by the eternal one.

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Bridge over the Sura River

By Tamara Kamaeva

The picture depicts a log bridge on the high pillars over the Sura river. We see neither river landscape no picturesque banks but the fancy decorative rhythm of the bridge pillars. The artist shows wood to the viewer from the new focus as a picturesque natural material of various shapes and dimensions, interwoven in the fancy structure, casting dim dark shadows on the two-colored river water. The contrasts of light and shades, of the ocher tree and the blue river, the horizontal line of the water and the vertical bridge pillars fill the picture with energy, dynamics, causing the complicated feelings.

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By the Water

By Julia Bobrova

Loud silence fills the picture of Julia Bobrova “By the water”. Nature seems motionless. It is not ready for the rave of colors, birds twittering and warm gusty wind. Everything seems to be awaiting the spring. Only the swinging of the dry coastal grass which has survived through the autumn nasty weather and winter coldness reminds you of the rapidity of time and  the changes to come.

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Village Still Life

By Sergey Nekrasov

The work looks like a hymn to the agriculture labor. The monumental, thorough composition consists of usual village objects but receives a quite special meaning under Sergey’s brushstroke. There is no elegant beauty of fruits and vegetables that we are used to seeing in the works of Dutch Golden Age masters, nor tenderness of impressionists’ still life paintings.

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Ivan the Terrible

By Sergey Nekrasov

A review from the gallery:

This painting is Sergey’s diploma work – the result of his studies at the Painting Department at the Academy of Arts. It got an “excellent” grading in his degree from the State Attestation Commission. The painting is a widescale canvas about Russian history. It shows Sergey’s great skills in working with such large-scale pictures.

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The Summer Garden

By Maria Knyazeva

It is a transparent Winter evening in the Summer Garden in St. Petersburg. In the blue mirage of the sky, big snow flakes are born and fall circling in a dance. Finally they rest as hats on the branches of trees whose bare trunks create a complex decorative rhythm that is repeated in the magic fence of the garden.

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