Nikolai Blokhin's Paintings Part [2]
Nikolai Blokhin's work represents a style of Russian contemporary art related with a new degree of development of academic and realistic traditions. Continuity with European and Russian art schools is achieved through the selection of subjects and narratives, plastic language, and the very relationship between art and life. Nikolai Blokhin is known for his virtuosic skill of drawing in the classical sense. Blokhin's photographic portraits blend incisive psychologism with proficiency in all professional approaches. He frequently makes large-format drawings, which, while nominally a preparatory stage in the production of a graphic composition, are initially equivalent, separate pieces.
Brilliant painting, whether in portraits, landscapes, still lifes, or story compositions, is not just technical but also emotive. A pasty, free stroke saturates the scenic surface with interior movements, evoking the "vitality" of multicoloured bread. When there are no external constraints in the choice of plastic language, the artist has endless choices in the current state of art, ranging from any variant of conventional painting to all potential trends in contemporary art. In this context, it is especially obvious because, on the one hand, creative language remains a way of transmitting thoughts and those subtle substances that we refer to as emotions, sentiments, and soul movements. Any language becomes merely a series of procedures if it lacks vitality and a genuine belief in the truths communicated by its art. On the other hand, the artist's originality is acquired through the selection of an artistic system, and the absolute is realised in the case of discovering precisely "his" language.
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