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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"Anatoly Krynsky
- A Life of Art" by Gaither Stewart |
Nonetheless, you still
wonder. Who is this man -- Anatoly Krynsky? From what planet did he
descend? Is he Mask or is he Man under one of his own masks? You
learn little by asking the artist's opinions or about his likes and
dislikes or about his former teachers or the influence of other
artists. He anyway prefers to speak of Buddhism and Tibetan medicine
or the mystery of Stonehenge and Aztec pyramids.
"It's useless to talk about my early years except for the short
period after I met in Kharkov the famous Constructivist, Vassily
Yermilov and the Russian vanguard artist, Boris Kotare. They
revolutionized my artistic awareness. Until that time I had blindly
copied nature or simply executed my daily etudes, without any
understanding of their true significance."
Anatoly Krynsky has been erroneously labeled a Constructivist. The
definition is much too limiting of the complete artist who instead
already as a young man pressed ahead from his early works of the
period he studied under Yermilov in the Kharkov Art Institute, to
themes like Man and the City or the Duality of Man and of Life,
works already then depicted in his Cub futuristic-iconographic
style.
Like a cyclone he passed through subsequent periods, carrying over
from each period something to the next. His was an art on-the-run
marked by a cycle of masks linked to ancient Egypt, by long years of
experiments with Reliefs based on the use of sand, paints and metal,
by advanced studies of the nature morte as a link with antiquity,
and even by Italian landscapes painted for his exhibits in Bologna
and Rome in the 1970s.
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Reprinted by permission from
Tower of Babel.
Gaither Stewart, correspondent in Italy for the Dutch daily
Algemeen Dagblag, has written widely on European culture and
reported for many years on East Europe for many European
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