Artist statement

Alexander Moldavanov is a Russian Painter, he focus’ a lot around abstract art, he uses bold colours and creates very contemporary pieces of art. He went to art school and in his biography’s he is always saying how much painting means to him and how great it makes him feel when he is doing it. I do believe his work is very striking and I have picked a few to look more deeply into and get some ideas of his techniques and colour palette.

Looking into this piece above his work is all quite similar, I’ve got the impression from quite a few pieces he does a detailed underneath or section then he makes striking paint brush marks around and blends colours together to create interesting marks throughout the portrait. I has inspired me to look into trying this type of art myself, I think the brush marks really make a good piece of work and the way he blends all the colours of the face together around the eye make a striking piece of art. I think it gives an interesting look for the viewer and I would like to experiment with trailing this style myself, he uses oil paints but I think I will have to trail with acrylics.

This piece really struck out to me, I think the way he has painted the portrait then done those thick strokes of paint coming off the front of the face into the distance, I think it’s different and unique and that’s what draws the viewer in, his work has good tone as well as being abstract and out of the blue. I the detail he has managed to make throughout the back side of the face and then it blends nicely into the front part. All of the colours he uses are a blend of the different features of the face which make the piece more effective in the way the blend goes up away from the face, his work has really inspired me into look into different ways I can style my work with trail and error.

This piece struck out to me a lot , I feel like this piece is quite political but I like how he has used his art to express this, I like how he has managed to represent who the person is and make a detailed features of the portrait and then he uses paint to just ‘splat’ over it and I do think it’s a different and unique way of displaying art. Looking into these pieces of art has really inspired me to explore portraits and form in my own way and try to be more adventurous in my drawings.