bears in the forest (1966) Painting by Severin Kiyan

Paintings Severin Titovich Kiyan presented for the first time , the uniqueness of these enigmatic objects of art , like the mystery of the artist's personality is difficult to overestimate. In the process of updating his biography revealed that the majority of archival documents destroyed , scattered data were formed into a single picture possible thanks to the testimony of his fellow villagers . Severin was born in the village . Kamenka Cherkassy region around 1910 . Being self-taught , he began to write at the end of 1930 - s , but the paintings of the early period have survived. During the war, the artist forced to flee their hobbies . In the early 60 - Severin from Kiev as a dissident was persecuted and forced to leave the country. He went to Italy, where he studies and works for several years. On the Rights of the journeymen and masters painting techniques . In Italy, the artist writes from memory Ukrainian landscapes.

 On the example of Severin Kiyan , we can observe a unique phenomenon - the professional skills learned in the workshops of the Italian masters , combined with naive art language of the rural self-taught painter , creating expressive blend of high style and folk narrative . Unpretentious , lovely heart Severin , landscapes of his native village submitted through the prism of the Italian landscape school . The desire is not a professional artist to create a surreal atmosphere of realism neo-primitivism , bringing the product to the post-modern concept. Almost self-contained cultural cliches narrative creates a multilayered reality , where the text is not the author, and any idea - Heritage Society . People's Artist of the decline of copying that is inherent creativity and Severin Kiyan . The artist does not think of himself an opponent of his predecessors, for him , " Bears in the Forest " is a visual object along with steppe landscapes of his native village . Abundant citations without brackets generously treated to a Shishkin and Vassilkovskaya , "small Dutch " PEROVA and Bruegel , an Italian sfumato and the mass motives.

• Nationality: UKRAINE
• Date of birth : 1910
• Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Ukrainian Contemporary Artists Artists presented by a gallery