Safonov Artist Biography Pictures
Publication Nikas Nikolai Safronov 8 April, Ulyanovsk is Soviet, then Russian Artist, and Famous Portrait Painter and Public Figure. HIS NAME IS Always on the Pages of the Newspapers and Gossip Sheets, Which in No Way Prevents Safronov From Continuing His Bright Career. Skilfully Combining the Techniques Inhereent in Various Styles, Nikas Creates The Amazing Subjects, Which Attraact the Connoisseurs.
In One of His Interviews, The Artist Admitted that, Being a Person Easily Carried Away As Losing Interest, He Preferred to Change Techniques Without Focusing On Any of them. Excellent Visual Memory, Mastery of Pencil, Watercolor and Oil Paints, As Rich Imagination are the Secret of the Work of Nikas Safronov, WHO Gave the World HIS Unusual Paintings. Being A Connoisseur of the Works by Symbolists and Expressionists, The Painter Transferies of His Dreams to the Canvas, Combining Them With Real Characters and Places.
ExhiBitions of the Works by this outus artist are regularly Held in Russia and Other Countries, Which Invariably Pack the Halls with Audience. Safronov Presented Many Portraits to Their Prototypes, and Today the Works Hold Pride of Place in the Private Collections. Little Nikolai Spent Time with His Four Brothers and Sister; He Carried His Affiction for Them and His Parents Through His Whole Life.
Subsequently, Stepping on His Creative Path, He took His NickName Nikas in Memory of His Mother, Who Had Finnish and Lithuanian Roots. Nikas Safronov Became Interest in Drawing in His School Years. Dreaming of Travels to Distant Lands and Incredible Adventures, He Quite Successfullly Redrew Illustrations from Books. AFTER School, Nikolai Entered the Odessa Marine and Studied There as a navigator for one year.
And Theen Someting Unusual Happened in, The Odeysa Nautical School Celebrated Its 75th Anniversary, and On the Ocasion of the Event, the School Managers Deceded to Reward The Cadets Who Excelled in Their Studies. The Tovarishch Barque, with Specially Selected Crew of the Best Marine Students on Board, Saled for the American Coast, The City of Baltimore. Nikas Safronov Was Among the Lucky Cadets.
On its way to the destination point, The Barque Got Into a Strong Storm, Which Lasted Almost a Day. When The Raging Ocean Has Calmed Down and the Students Were to Relax, The Exhauded Nikolai Fell Into a Deep Sleep, More Like a Swon. According to Safronov, He Dreamed of a Gallery in Which His Paintings Were Exhibited, Which He Had Not Yet Painted in Reality. Next to HIM, He Found An Old Man Whited from One Canvas to Another and Commented on What He Saw.
Toometimes Nicholas Argood with the Old Man, Sometimes Agreed, But at Some Point His Mysterious Interlocutor Disappeared. Looking Up, Nikas Safronov Saw Him Soar Up, and Realized that He Had The Great Leonardo da Vinci in Font of Him. At That Moment, Safronov Woke Up with A Clear Understanding that He Was An Artist. After this Voyage, He left the nautical School and Entered the Rostov Art College.
There, The Future Painter Carefully Studied the Secrets of Artistry, Paying Particular Atting to the Works of Leonardo - The Artistic, PhiloSophical, and And Scientific Paintings. To the Great Florentine, Nikas Safronov Managed to Find HIS OWN DRAWING STYLE, UnLIKE ANY OTER. Later, he worked in the rostov youth Theater, Served in the Military, Studied at Vilnius Art Institute, and All this Time Nikas Did Improving His Skills.
Safronov Painted His First Paints in a Memorable in, He Was Awarded a Solo Exhibition, Which Brought Him The Glore of a Portrait Painter, Surrealist and Bold Experimenter. This Effect is CREATED BOSE SPECIAL TRICS THAT NIKAS DURING HIS WORK. Light Translucent Fog Shreds, Bright Accents, Many Small and Carefully Details Make The Observer Peer Into the Image and Create the Illusion of Pressence.
As the Artist Himself Admits, Inter Hours of Enthusiastic Work, He Finds Himself Involved in the Picture, As if He Enters it. Nothing IS Impossible for the Artist Nikas Safronov: He Boldly Combines The Recognizable Objects and Surrealistic Images to Create Someting News. The Familiar Silhouettes of Skyscrapers with Luminous Windows Seem to Hide the Sins of their Inhabitants Behind a Fragile Human Figure, and Distant ThunderClouds Are Cut Through with the Reflection of the Setting Sun.