Artist Segey Smirnov

Sergey Ivanovich Smirnov (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Смирно́в), twelve Apr 1953 – eight Nov 2006, was a Russian creative person.

In observing his art, one will simply appreciate that Smirnov ranks painter, the Austrian painter whose pictures were a cornerstone of the artistic movement movement, as a vital influence. He additionally cites painter and Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn as major influences, in addition as Andrei Rublev and Pheophan Grek, WHO were celebrated masters of Slavic icon painting. Smirnov's vogue has echoes of his favorite amount of Russian art, referred to as “parsuna”, that bridged the worlds of non secular and private portraiture, as Russian painters began adopting the portrait painting varieties of Western European salons. “Parsuna”, that comes from the Latin persona, means mask, and therefore the hybrid representational process, initial employed in the seventeenth century, re-mains live to the current day within the art of Sergey Smirnov.