Anton Ovsianikov

Art Brokerage: Anton Ovsianikov Russian Artist: The art of Petersburg painter Anton Anatolievich Ovsianikov is indissolubly linked with the great traditions of realistic school of painting, at first with the basic principles of Russian realistic painting of the second half of XIX century. The basis of these traditions is in a special reliability in depiction of nature in the whole diversity of its manifestations, where the aspiration towards the reliability and elevated spirituality.rnrnFor Ovsianikov precisely a landscape had become that genre, where his picturesque talent had realized with the greatest fullness and brightness. In the works, presenting this genre, the artist does not aspire towards the underlined individual rendering of a natural theme, and seems to subdue himself to that unaffected beauty of nature, which is necessary to reveal and to embody convincingly in the polished, classic clear picturesque form. The completeness of the latter is consonant to the pithiness and inner significance of the represented theme or plot. Such a character of plastic and evocative decision is distinguishing also Ovsianikov's portraits and still-lives, where the artist's close attention for the traditions of the Old masters. Researching and developing the picturesque achievements of his famous precursors, the artist confirms with his works the beauty and harmony of the surrounding world, emerges as the continuer of the great traditions of the Russian and World realistic art. Listings wanted.