Yuri Kudryavtsev-Dobrohotov

about the artist

• I date the beginning of my painting practice and study by the year of 1965 – in my 21. At that time I was a student, learning languages, diplomacy and other sciences in the Moscow Institute of International Relations. Soon, after working in Embassy in the Sudan (1967) and then in Syria, I preferred, since 1970, to teach language at the same Institute – in order to devote more time and attention to painting and drawing exercises. I managed to proceed with that line even during my short visits to Algeria, Morocco, Kuwait and my directorship of the Russian Cultural Center in Cairo (1993-95), where I built a kind of studio.

• But at the very beginning I took courses at Surikov Institute studios in Moscow (1973-74), then at Repin Academy studios and Mukhina Art Institute in St. Petersburg (1976). Being a young artist, then I made a race of exhibition participations with getting diplomas, presentations and purchases here and abroad, and was admitted to the Young Painters’ Association of Moscow Art Union (1975). It was very interesting and useful period when I contacted with famous Russian painters – Aleksandr Labas and Tatiana Yablonskaya, and all those years painted at Artists’ House in Sednev on the river Snov, Ukraine.

• Generally, my art involvement began during the school years, but then I was fully fascinated with poetry and drawing. So that on graduating the secondary school in 1963 I had dozen of poems and one personal exhibition of drawings. That exhibition exposed a kind of plasticity and rhythms, which first had appeared in my sketches done from the board of the “Anton Chekhov” steamer in 1960, when I rushed to draw the banks, churches and ships on the rivers Volga and Kama ( www.symchromism.com/graf/s3.php ). I suppose that, as an artist, I've awaked on the board of that steamer, in my 16, traveling with my mother by the rivers Volga and Kama.

• The poetry of life attitudes, which makes us artists, is a thing which we inherit. Thus, I was surprised how near I could be with my father, first of all in the vision of life and then in the drawing, when, after his death, I found two notebooks with about hundred of father’s sketches which he made at the fronts of the World War I in 1915-17, where he was taken to from the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University ( www.symchromism.com/fam01/index_1.php ).

• So, I began to practice the painting after a period of drawing, which I continued side by side with the painting. I am sure the drawing and life sketches enrich the painting with plasticity, movement and innovations.

• More than this: life sketches so much influence our painting and our vision as a whole, that I often associate it with Walt Whitman’s poetry.

• On the other hand, color is as near to me as music. And I look at every new and compound color gamut and harmonious composition like at a mute symphony. Out of this, I call my painting method: “symchromy” or the “symchromism”.

artists' statement

• My aesthetic credo for the 3rd millennium painting:

complicated harmonies of derived color multitudes - "symchromism" - in abstract, realistic and mixed methods of the "color-composition" painting.

• I have come to the abstract improvisation especially due to my greatest passion for the landscape painting. The example of the Nature that creates so freely an infinite diversity of forms and colors, encourages to follow it and try to compose original color harmonies in their various inner plasticity as well as wonderful combinations of new colorful forms, - without imitating any objects. Thus it could give most human heart to most abstract art.

• In “symchromism” I find color and formal joint plasticity innovations, trying to be constructive and expressive in definite and compound “color compositions”. At the same time I reject monochromatic harmonies and subdivided pallets, backgrounds and dominant color fragments, purely decorative and well-known color combinations, open colors and all kinds of formal and color recurrences, – because those contradict "color composition", plasticity and interaction of its colorful spiritual correlations.

• Last purchased piece of mine - "Red Angel. (M. Gorbachev)", exhibited in Germany: http://www.galby.narod.ru/un/Ynk3011_01.html•

Questions email to: kudrar@yandex.ru

artists' work

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[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: The Sunset Road. Crimea - Karadag. price: $6,500.00 dimensions: 38 cm x 35 cm oil, canvas, mastichine technique, framed. ... more detail about The Sunset Road. Crimea - Karadag. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Overgrown Pond In Ancient Park. price: $12,000.00 dimensions: 94 cm x 112 cm oil, canvas, unframed ... more detail about Overgrown Pond In Ancient Park. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: The Sunny River (The Snov - Ukraine). price: $7,500.00 dimensions: 45 cm x 35 cm oil, canvas, mastichine technique, framed ... more detail about The Sunny River (The Snov - Ukraine). >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Woman And Man. Conception. price: $17,000.00 dimensions: 86 cm x 111 cm oil, canvas, unframed ... more detail about Woman And Man. Conception. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: July Evening. price: $7,500.00 dimensions: 43 cm x 34 cm oil, canvas, mastichine technique, framed ... more detail about July Evening. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Morning Near The River. price: $15,000.00 dimensions: 87 cm x 100 cm canvas, oil, mastichine techtique, unframed ... more detail about Morning Near The River. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Haystack Over The River Snov. Afternoon. price: $13,000.00 dimensions: 46 cm x 35 cm oil, canvas, mastichine technique, framed ... more detail about Haystack Over The River Snov. Afternoon. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Birch In The Willow's Glow. price: $5,500.00 dimensions: 43 cm x35 cm oil, canvas, mastichine technique, framed ... more detail about Birch In The Willow's Glow. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: The Love Embrace. price: $9,500.00 dimensions: 90 cm x 78 cm oil, canvas, unframed ... more detail about The Love Embrace. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Shadow Over The Deep Water. price: $8,500.00 dimensions: 45 cm x 35 cm oil, canvas, mastichine techtique, framed ... more detail about Shadow Over The Deep Water. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Weeds, Bushes & Trees At Sunset. price: $12,000.00 dimensions: 100 cm x 85 cm canvas, oil, unframed ... more detail about Weeds, Bushes & Trees At Sunset. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: The Snov River In A Hot Day. price: $12,000.00 dimensions: 35 cm x 42 cm oil, canvas, mastichine technique, framed ... more detail about The Snov River In A Hot Day. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Hot Russian Soul & Self-Digging. price: $13,000.00 dimensions: 95 cm x 100 cm canvas, oil, unframed ... more detail about Hot Russian Soul & Self-Digging. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: The Ukrainian Sun. (In Sednev) price: $9,000.00 dimensions: 42 cm x 35 cm oil, canvas, mastichine technique, framed ... more detail about The Ukrainian Sun. (In Sednev) >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Full Moon Lady. price: $15,000.00 dimensions: 75 x 100 cm oil, canvas, unframed ... more detail about Full Moon Lady. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Storm In The Frog Bay. Karadag, Crimea. price: $11,000.00 dimensions: 49 cm x 35 cm oil, canvas, mastichine technique, framed ... more detail about Storm In The Frog Bay. Karadag, Crimea. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Cows' Paths. (Klochkov - Ukraine) price: $17,000.00 dimensions: 63 cm x 78 cm canvas, oil, unframed ... more detail about Cows' Paths. (Klochkov - Ukraine) >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Clouds Over The River. price: $7,500.00 dimensions: 38 cm x 35 cm oil, canvas, mastichine technique, framed ... more detail about Clouds Over The River. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Moscow Summer. price: $21,000.00 dimensions: 100 cm x 100 cm oil, canvas, unframed ... more detail about Moscow Summer. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: The Evening Sun Glamor. (Sednev - Ukraine) price: $13,000.00 dimensions: 45 cm x 34 cm oil, canvas, mastichine technique, framed ... more detail about The Evening Sun Glamor. (Sednev - Ukraine) >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Autumn Forms. In Nikulino Park, Moscow. price: $8,000.00 dimensions: 70 x 50 cm oil, canvas ... more detail about Autumn Forms. In Nikulino Park, Moscow. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Jumping Horse. price: $11,000.00 dimensions: 123 x 77 cm oil, canvas ... more detail about Jumping Horse. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Corn Field. price: $12,000.00 dimensions: 121 x 76 cm oil, canvas ... more detail about Corn Field. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Little Tree In The Snov River. Ukraine. price: $9,000.00 dimensions: 42 x 35 cm oil, canvas ... more detail about Little Tree In The Snov River. Ukraine. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Farewell Of The Sun. price: $9,000.00 dimensions: 43 x 35 cm oil, canvas ... more detail about Farewell Of The Sun. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: The Klyazma Near Bezdedovo. price: $7,000.00 dimensions: 60 x 45 cm oil, canvas, ... more detail about The Klyazma Near Bezdedovo. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Holy Trinity. Love, Hope & Faith. price: $9,000.00 dimensions: 100 x 87 cm oil, canvas ... more detail about Holy Trinity. Love, Hope & Faith. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: Crimea, Karadag. Near The Crab Cape. price: $4,000.00 dimensions: 43 x 35 cm ... more detail about Crimea, Karadag. Near The Crab Cape. >
[+] view larger Forward to a Friend	title: The Shady Bank. price: $4,000.00 dimensions: 43 x 35 cm oil, canvas, ... more detail about The Shady Bank. >

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