Novgorod churches (2020) Peinture par Anatolij Goncarenko

When creating easel works, I contemplate how to embody an idea and concept through the plastic language of painting on the surface of a canvas or sheet of paper. Each theme and each subject of a painting requires its own artistic structure; therefore, I do not confine myself to a single compositional solution.

The formation of my aesthetic vision as a professional artist is connected with my studies at the Kalinin Art School and the drawing classes of the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute in the 1970s. The classical school provided me with a solid foundation of artistic thinking and an understanding of the expressive means of painting and graphics, while analyzing the traditions of Russian realism and world art culture.

My work as a graphic artist at the USSR Literary Fund and at the Diorama and Artistic Production Combine helped me to find the right perspective for the created image, revealing the essential in the depiction of subjects while taking into account scale and proportion, line and shape.

I draw inspiration from the legacy of great masters — from André Derain and Claude Monet to Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, and Pyotr Ossovsky. However, I do not seek to follow their painting methods literally, but rather to reinterpret them creatively, forming my own artistic handwriting and style, where the centuries-old experience of artists merges with the contemporary sense of art.

Since the early 1980s, when I became a member of professional art unions and began active exhibition work, my paintings have increasingly displayed technical completeness and meaningful themes that evoke empathy in viewers.

I enjoy working alla prima, creating a dynamic impasto texture of oil paint that conveys the first impression of what is seen. For me, the landscape is not merely a depiction of nature, but an image of the inner state of the universe. My pictorial method synthesizes realism and impressionism, incorporating elements of expressionism and avant-garde thinking.

Collaborating as a painter with Austrian galleries in the 2000s expanded my perception of contemporary art directions. Encounters with European art schools confirmed to me that the artist’s strength lies in preserving his own creative path.

My many years of work in monumental art — frescoes, mosaics, and stained glass — have taught me to perceive an easel painting as an architecture of light. I convey the interaction of volume and plane through the illusory imitation of visual perception, filling the center of the canvas with a more substantial focus and depicting flatter details at the edges, striving to express aerial and reverse perspectives.

My creative path is a dialogue between classicism and modernity, between compositional discipline and the improvisation of a living brushstroke.
I believe that visual art should not only reflect the external world but also embody the spiritual movement of humankind, aspiring toward harmony, light, and love.

• Nationalité: RUSSIE
• Date de naissance : 1948
• Domaines artistiques: Œuvres d’artistes professionnels,
• Groupes: Artiste professionnel Artistes Contemporains Russes