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In the exhibition hall on the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 20, in the gallery of the Association of Artists of the Moscow Union of Artists, a personal exhibition of the Honored Artist of Russia, professor of the Moscow State Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov, Sergey Smirnov.

The exhibition shows historical and everyday plot paintings, landscapes, still lifes, portraits.

Behind the painter is a diploma from the Surikov Institute in the workshop of D.K. Mochalsky, Academic workshops under the guidance of Academicians A.P. and S.P. Tkachev and academician A.M. Gritsaya, four decades of active exhibition activity, a circle of students - both beginners and already recognized authors, social work on the board of the Moscow Union of Artists.

Sergey Smirnov is a well-known and beloved spectator Moscow author, an esthetician and romantic in painting, an artist with a reference sense of proportion and delicate taste. The author is skilled in the selection of forms, his plastic language has inherent subtle color and tonal relationships, an academic approach to composition and the virtuoso plastic of an excellent draftsman.

In his story paintings, the master seeks and embodies in the material archetypal images of the Russian world: men - a hard worker; women - custodians of the hearth, mother, girlfriend, sister; Moscow - the capital of our great power. “Her native land, especially the soul of her soul - ancient Moscow, opens lightly in the work of a Russian artist in love with her. The painter remains faithful to the high spiritual traditions of Russian art, especially to the Moscow direction, which is Orthodox in its spirit, ”wrote G.P. Chinyakova, head of the rare books department of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

Smirnov’s pictures of the Moscow Holiday series are full of light sadness, nostalgia for a bygone era, but they don’t have an impenetrable time barrier, “dusty historicism”. It seems enough to take a step, slightly move the thin temporary curtain - and, breathing in the aroma of hot cakes, merge with the festive crowd of Moscow.

The works of Sergei Smirnov are full of air and light, they breathe, inviting you to walk through the snowy Moscow streets, plunge into the cozy world of the province, contemplate objects in still lifes, and examine native faces in portraits.

Reading the work of Sergei Ivanovich is given with a light heart and leaves the soul joy from immersion in the bright world of his paintings.