Andrei Blinov
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212. New York |
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21. Bridge Over Griboedov Canal |
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Andrei Blinov was born 15 July 1962 in the city of Arsenev, Russia. He moved to St. Petersburg to study art, and entered the Mukhina Art School, graduating in 1984. Blinov has taken part in a number of city-wide and regional exhibitions of the St. Petersburg Artists' Union, inclding the "Lenin Expo" in 1991, and mounted a personal exhbition for the publishing firm of Avrora.
The simplicity of Blinov's landscapes conceals a deep study of the subject and its significance to the world as a whole. Says Blinov, "My sensibility to the beauty of the material world, the penetrating observation of nature,and individual poetic interpretation intertwine in my vision." He distinguishes three layers in his art:
"The first one--the representative layer--produces a picture of a landscape or of a human figure to some extent literal and true to nature."
"The second one--the contemplative level--interprets applied motives in such a way that they attain a specitic idealistic relationship in space and refine the harmony in the range of colors."
"The third layer is actually an abstract arrangement. Its distinguishing features are the decorative style, formal discipline, orderly composition, and ample use of symbols. it becomes the author's own commentary on the creative process and an attempt at the systematisation of the relationship between the work of art and the image of nature. In my work, I attempt to create a synthesis of rationalism and sensibility."
