Mihail Aleksandrov Colorful Jester Oil Painting

Thank you for considering this very colorful oil painting by Mihail Aleksandrov.

Size: 34 inches wide and 41 inches long with frame without frame 25 inches wide and 32 inches long.

Mihail Aleksandrov is one of the most successful artists to have left the former Soviet Union. He works primarily in oil, tempera and watercolor.

Aleksandrov was born in 1949 in Vilnius, Lithuania and immigrated to the United States in 1980, settling in New York City. He has had many one-man shows in the States and has been collected in more than twenty countries worldwide.

His paintings pulsate with a vibrant spiritual energy. He never forgets his Russian roots, which shape the mystical framework of his paintings. His paintings also reflect his personal belief that faith is at the center of our existence.

Aleksandrov's disdain for trendy art has taken him to the past for inspiration. He believes that art cannot be created out of a vacuum, but instead is the progression of a long heritage. Ancient icons, the Renaissance concept of art and beauty and the Russian Avante Garde movement influence his work. He merges geometric forms and the human body into symbolic configurations of squares, circles and triangles.

He continually creates a perfect arrangement of figures in a rhythmic choreographed motion. Through his paintings, Aleksandrov desires to transcend reality and reach a higher spiritual realm.

His works are held in the collections of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art.

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