Was born in St. Petersburg, Russia
in 1968. His education in art began very early at the Art School for Gifted
Children in 1980. Three years after graduating from the prestigious St.
Petersburg Academy of Arts and finishing his post graduate practical training,
Blokhin begins his own teaching career. Today, Nikolai Blokhin is a Professor
of Drawing at the Academy.
Blokhin’s first serious success was
in portrait painting. Portrait is a genre where an artist depends on a model
the most, where room for experiment is limited – otherwise the portrait is no
longer a portrait. The artist stands on classical humanist traditions according
to which a human is considered an integral creation, i.e. his individual
features can reveal fundamental essence of his personality with all complexity
of his psyche and biography. His portraits are obviously influenced by
Impressionists in their aspiration for casual condition and fleeting mood of a
model that produce an effect of naturalness and freshness of their first
impression.
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