Russian Artist Dmitry's Painting

Ye Weiqi • Yuri Vasilyev Dmitry (Dmitry Vasily) born in 1972, is a member of the Russian Association of St. Petersburg artists. He graduated from the Repin Academy of Fine Arts Studio, is good at sketch painting. His painting is full of passion for life, philosophy, and also the interaction between man and nature. Especially hisportraits, straightforward and interesting, focusing on the positive use of color, a generous confident drawing, refined shape of the object, sharp composition and soft mood.

Dmitri takes the Russian Volga River, Turkey, China's Yellow River and the northern ordinary people's life as a theme, creating a large number of rural landscape portraits, shows the lives of ordinary farmers and fishermen.

Dmitry is one of the few artists, who through the frequent travel to collect material for his oil painting .It is particularly worth mentioning, in the winter of 2006,he was directly deep in northern mountains with the Central Academy of Fine Arts' friends. In the ten degrees below zero conditions, he used the colour paint the real Northern customs, which fully demonstrated his dedication to the pursuit of art and the shock to the northern land.

Vasilyev created a lot of Russian landscape painting and figure, reflecting the general status of farmers and fishermen, who live in the Lada Lake, Volga River and other areas. He has held exhibitions in Berlin and Hamburg, Italy, Beijing and other places. his paintings were also collected by many collectors from Germany, France, the United States and China.

In 1996, Vasilyev traveled rural Northern China, rustic style from this yellow earth and original ecological scenery, stimulated his creative desires. After returning home, he created pieces of work to the theme of Loess Plateau. From the perspective of a foreign artist, showing the ancient living state of the hard-working northern farmers and expressing the feelings to Chinese traditional folk scene. The works on display, whether old woman drying clothes or farmers in the threshing floor and the kids playing in the winter sun, all show people a natural, fresh feel.

Vasilyev has a lot of passion for the life, there's no metaphorical "settings" in his image language , he's good at using the simple lines, turning the realistic scene into a elegant picture, let it look interesting and spontaneous. He got rid of the traditional academic style--dark and deep. instead, using the bright light and color, showing a bright, tender style. Especially those broad-brush, painted with great confidence, colourful and powerful.

Vasilyev specializes in Oil Painting, he ever published still life,portrait, landscape painting and other painting works in the magazine. His oil paintings also exhibited this time - China's Southern Water Village Zhouzhuang series, which has a similar feel with the Chinese ink painting Zhouzhuang.

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