online exhibitions:
Canyon
Landscapes
Italy Revisited
Stonehenge
Landscapes
online
retrospectives:
Blue and Red
Centaur
Series
Central Park Landscapes
Clownade
Duality
Face to Face
Human Kind
Masks
Neo Cubo-Futurism
Princess
Sculptural
Sand Reliefs
Song of Love
Still Life
Time of Beauty
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| Commentary by
Franco Miele |
The paintings of
Anatoly Krynsky are the testimony of many years of the work of an
artist, who in the context of the political climate reigning in the
former Soviet Union had the courage to break the schemes of Socialist
Realism and to seek instead a free figurative direction. A direction
which took forms marked by the ancient, suggestive spirit of religious
iconography supported by a renewed creative attitude in respect to
Russian Constructivism and European Cubism.
Especially in his Moscow period, 1963-1973, following the completion of
his studies at the Kharkov Art Institute, Krynsky rejected the rules
imposed on the art world by the political sphere. He showed his works
together with the major exponents of pre-revolutionary Constructivism
and Suprematism and in private collective showings of other
non-conformist artists.
Following his emigration first to Italy then to the United States,
Krynsky has exhibited many times, in many countries, his works that
testify to the unity of his artistic vision. Methodological rigor and
extreme composure invade the diverse phases of the elaboration of his
works, from those inspired by typically Russian and Byzantine saints and
monasteries to themes of prophets placed amid simplified cathedrals. An
analogous attitude marks his works of Constructivist and Cubist imprint.
Again his works display a successful meeting between fantasy and logic
as in the landscapes executed during his Italian period, paintings to
which the artist seems to have transferred the chaste luminosity
absorbed during his time in the sunny Crimea. Thus, a line of continuity
links the past to the present in his works, in an incessant renewal of
tradition and culture.
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