DESCRIPTION
To paint the ceremonial portrait is not an easy task for our contemporary, even if he has graduated from the Russian Academy of Arts. Our modern life with no ball parties and tournaments has become a casual one, when even the members of the royal families rarely wear ceremonial clothes. Yet the historical parties are quite usual in some circles. For the artist with his extraordinary imagination there is no need for experiments with clothes, even for one evening. The master’s brush dresses his friend in the long cloak with the scarlet lining, puts him in the old armchair, which outline is hardly seen in the darkness of the room, softens his face and figure so we see the portrait of the artist’s friend Dima depicted as a Cardinal
Natalia Kosyachenko,
Art critic
