"Symphony of colors" from the artist Mikhail Arkhangelsky in Krasnodar Automatic translate

KRASNODAR. "Symphony of colors" - this is the name given to the exhibition opened on January 17 by the Kuban artist Mikhail Arkhangelsky. The exposition of the exhibition was composed of works written by the artist in different years of his life. Among them are landscapes and portraits, genre scenes and still lifes.

Art historians believe that the works of Arkhangelsk echo the work of Picasso and Matisse. Even at the beginning of his career, when landscapes and still lifes were the artist’s favorite genres, the paintings of Arkhangelsk were distinguished by decorativeness and colorfulness. His work was bright and expressive.

After graduating from an art school in Krasnodar, Mikhail Arkhangelsky spent several years in Leningrad, where he attended classes at the Repin Institute of Painting as a volunteer. Upon his return to Krasnodar, he was already an artist with his prevailing author’s style.

The painter spent his whole life traveling, where he worked constantly. He often traveled to Gelendzhik, devoting these trips almost every autumn. He liked to work in Koktebel and Gurzuf, teaming up with the artist Mordvinov, he traveled many times in the Russian North. In 1990, for six whole years, he went to live in Greece, and when he returned, he brought back hundreds of paintings from there.

In the last decade of his life, Mikhail Arkhangelsky began to use a more expressive and expressive author’s style. In his work, abstract works appeared, plastic metaphors were used. In the second half of the nineties, the artist wrote such works as “Life is worse than Shakespeare”, “Envy”. There are works that have become a response to the cataclysms occurring in the country.

It is possible to get acquainted with the work of the Kuban artist until February 1.

Ludmila Trautmane