Artist Evgeny and Lydia Baranov (Russian artist)

Artist Evgeny and Lydia Baranov 

Evgeny (b. 1961) and Lydia Velichko Baranov (b. 1964).  Both were born into Muscovite families where an interest in the fine arts was not only appreciated but also actively encouraged.  They were students of the old Soviet Union's most prestigious school, Moscow Institute of Architecture. Ultimately, the art of Evgeny and Lydia V. Baranov is unique in that this pair of talented painters have lived together, worked together, and traveled together for so long that the consciousness of not one but two artists is infused in each of their works.  The artistic sensibility, creative spirit, and indomitable work ethic of two similar but unique personalities contribute to not only the collaborative paintings that they create side-by-side; but, even to the works that they do on their own.