The soul on canvas

Discover contemporary Russian artist Nikolai Blokhin, who is no doubt that centuries later would be on a par with the world's classics zhivopisi.Nikolay Blokhin received a classical education at the St. Petersburg Institute. Repin, and is considered one of the best followers of academic traditions of Russian art.

It so happened that, until recently, the artist was best known in the West than in Russia. In the United States held more than 30 solo exhibitions Blokhin. In addition, he is the only artist in the world, won top honors in the two most prestigious, competing art competitions portraitists US - PSA and ASOPA.

Nikolai Blokhin is known primarily as a portraitist, though he wrote and landscapes, still lifes, genre paintings. But it is in the portrait is most pronounced one of the most important aspects of his talent.





Blokhin - not only a skilled draftsman and a great colorist, he is also a connoisseur of human souls. Each of his paintings vividly convey the nature of the character. His portraits have the passion and emotion, idea and inspiration. It can be a single point of a variety of colors and palettes to breathe life into the picture.

According to the artist, the painting has to live, that is, it should look the people. Website


Anna



Anya



Profile



Anya



Isabella



Summer portrait



Patricia and Margo tribe Taos



Gypsy

Young ballerina



Marie



Margot



Anya



Venetian



Lilac



Natasha



Venice



Marina



Sleeping



Stradivarius



Scheherazade



Portrait of Suzanne Somers



Portrait of Maria Sittel



Portrait R. Kekkalaynena



Anya



Emmanuel

Anastasia

Since 1995 Nikolai Blokhin teaches at the department of drawing of the St. Petersburg akademicheskikogo Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Repin. He is a member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation, a member of the American Association of portrait painters (ASOPA) and member of the Society portrait painters of America (PSA).

See also:
Russian Salvador Dali

Boiling water color Votsmusha

The harsh Russian in pictures Basil Shulzhenko

Promising Artists of Russia

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