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 |
Through all the phases and
cycles and series of his art and through two emigrations -- first
from his native Kharkov to Moscow and then from Moscow to New York
-- Krynsky has continued to devote his major attention to oil
painting. His recent exhibit in a New York gallery was dedicated
wholly to major oil paintings of Manhattan's Central Park.
"I've lived my New York years just next to Central Park and couldn't
remain indifferent to it. I've devoted much time and many paintings
to its trees and flowers. Especially the Japanese Cherry trees
excite me -- the wonderful whimsicality of their trunks. And how
beautiful when they bloom each spring when the park explodes in
color -- the magnolias and Wild Apple trees and the leaning trees
around Belvedere Lake."
Yet despite such entertaining subjects as paysages and nature, he is
the artist forever in search of the face under the mask as
exemplified by a series of works under the general name FACE
inspired by his weekly visits to the Metropolitan Museum and
especially the Egyptian section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"Likewise clowns have always fascinated me -- the colorfulness and
unusual inventiveness of these magic people favoring us with their
sad and lonely smiles. Likewise the image of The King, so alone, so
lonely, so mysterious."
And then, from time to time and on the master's orders, the faithful
Etching Pelikan Press turns out engravings -- judiciously, stingily,
as if to withhold the silent originals -- now the Stonehenge cycle,
now his reworking of his earliest drawings of the face of a woman or
a child. He says that the technique of etching of the objects that
surround him has helped him attain the degree of expressiveness he
needs.
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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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