Montenegro, Bar (2016) Painting by Igor Staritsin

Igor has been fascinated by amazing landscape art since he was a child. Born and raised in Russia, he was exposed to amazing artworks of legendary Russian painters such as Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Aivazovsky, Isaak Levitan, Ilya Repin, Alexei Savrasov (just to name a few) and many-many more. Drawing and painting were by far activities he enjoyed the most as a kid. Later, at school age, Igor enrolled into music school along with art classes and successfully graduated a few years later.
“I believe music and painting have a lot in common. I feel like I can almost translate influence of music on the canvas through the means in hand. I also believe that music and painting have a lot in common. Famous Russian compositor Igor Stravinsky said: “if you get too much harmony it starts to be boring and if you get too much variety it starts to be chaotic, so it is a balancing act in between those two”. I feel the same about painting and there is a lot more you can translate from music into painting. Values, colors, edges are like those right tones and notes that one desperately looking for in order to create a unique harmony and make the painting work as a whole.”

• Nationality: CANADA
• Date of birth : unknown date
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• Groups: Contemporary Canadian Artists