Stanislav Dulatov

Stanislav was born in Leningrad (now named Saint Petersburg) in 1980. Since 1991 he studied in «The 8th School of Arts». In 1993 he entered the Middle School of Arts named n.a. by B.V. Ioganson, where Dulatov he studied till 1999. Since 1999, he entered the faculty of Fine Arts of the Russian State Pedagogical University. In 2002 Stanislav entered the St. Petersburg Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named by n.a. Ilya Repin. Since 2004, he has been studyingied in the workshop of painting under the guidance of A.A. Mylnikov.
Author's works are in state and private collections of Russia — GMZ State Park Museum «Pushkinskiye Gory», Vologda State Historical-Architectural and Art Park Museum-Reserve, “NIMAH”-Research Museum of the Academy of Arts of Russia, private collection of president of Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev;, Switzerland, China, Finland, Ukraine, United States, France and Italy.


“Nature doesn’t need to be decorated, but you have to feel its heart and release from randomicities”.
I. I. Levitan

Any kind of art is the expression of the artist’s soul, expression of his experience and feelings. It leads very often to birth of special spectacular technique which turns into cliché in future. Or an artist can waste and spray his emotions that don’t let him concentrate on the completed incarnation of his emotion on the painting. However, we can find whole persons who are able to avoid such dangers. Stanislav Dulatov is one of them.

Stanislav concentrates on a pretty difficult type of painting – scenery. At first, apparent ease of the performance of such type of work and variety of means of artistic expression doesn’t always let to find unfamiliar motive and certain composition of interest or image of the scenery. Neither does it let to make the scenery expressive and significant so it would touch the viewer and move his soul. Many artists experiment with means and technique of performance and seek external new forms and refinements.
Stanislav works, in contrary, attract with classic scenery drawing-up. It doesn’t mean that he doesn’t introduce new features to this genre. Artist uses personal unique style and paw. Stanislav is not captured by the desire to show obvious effects; he doesn’t use cheap techniques in order to impress the viewer. No, there is something different. Artist can be called “a master of lyric, philosophic scenery”. His works are not a window to the garden, not a piece of nature printed on the canvas. Like complicated mosaics his paintings consist of numerous precious colorful particles of the nature. They form one single piece and obey will of artist. You can notice the similarity to mosaic in thorough textured draw-up of the canvas. Low strokes imitate soft play of checkered light and shade. It gives flicker aura to the scenery.

His works doesn’t have obvious composition move. Moderate and reach details and millions of shades, color, inside peace, light formality of impersonation, love for late afternoon time, frequent pictures of water, and general symbolism of his works put Stanislav in common with members of “World of Art”. Artist is perfectly skillful in showing passing condition of nature. He chooses high horizon line and by this mean shows to the viewer the whole story about peaceful sunset on the north lake shore or about final warm beams that stay for a little while on mountain tops.

The language of scenery has become poetry – the way to express great feelings of the artist. Now it is the part of the art where deep and important truth is revealed. You look closer to scenery works of Stanislav Dulatov and listen for the narrated story and his way of showing the nature. And we learn to understand the creation, love for humankind and for the world.

Art scholar Olga “Ivolga” Ivanova