Nikolai LARSKY. Exhibition "Poem of the Summer. Painting"

April 14, 2016 in the Hall of Fine Arts of the Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts “Lavrushinsky 15” will open the personal exhibition of the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, the oldest (since 1966) member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia Nikolai Larsky.

Nikolai Larsky - the author of the widely known cycles of the paintings "Man and Ecology", "Corrosion", filled with eschatological forebodings of environmental disasters, will appear in a new, major quality. To the exposition of the exhibition “Poem about the summer. painting ”will include works written by the artist in 2014 - 2016 to the 80th anniversary of his birth.

Nikolai Larsky was born in 1937 in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (MPI), art faculty. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia (member of the Board of TSHR), Moscow Union of Artists, International Art Fund.

He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts, 2013, the Gold Medal of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, 2005, the Diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts, 2007.

Laureate of the Ecological World National Prize of the 1st degree, 2007. He was awarded the Honorary Badge of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences - a silver cross "For Merits", 2007.

Laureate of the Victor Popkov Competition, 2016

Nikolai Larsky - participant of exhibitions since 1960. The experience of the artist’s creative activity is 55 years. During this time he participated in 235 Russian and foreign exhibitions. Personal exhibitions 24. Group exhibitions 211.

Works in painting (still life, landscape, portrait, composition), graphics, poster.

In the Internet search line in the name of "Larsky Nikolai the artist" published 2000 paintings, about 5000 graphic portraits of contemporaries. Articles about the work of the artist N. Larsky were published in Russian newspapers: Culture, Evening Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, Parliamentary Newspaper, Tverskaya 13, Interlocutor, Gallery of Fine Arts, and the foreign press - Russian Thought in Paris, Interviews on radio and television, reproductions of N. Larsky’s works are published in 85 art catalogs. N. Larsky’s works are in museum, private and corporate collections in Russia, Europe, Asia, and America.

To his 80th birthday, the artist is at the peak of creative activity, every year participates in 25-30 exhibitions in Moscow and Russian cities, tirelessly publishes his new works in the global Internet space, in Russian and foreign art catalogs. He loves his viewers, gives them his love, creates for them, and viewers from all over the world answer him with mutual love. He is truly a folk artist.

“In the paintings of Nikolai Larsky, a passionate, hectic search is perhaps the main feature of the artist’s many-sided creativity. The virtue of Nikolai Larsky’s talent in vivid picturesque improvisations that are difficult to fit into any “isms” (Evgraf Konchin, art critic, columnist for the Kultura newspaper)

“N. Larsky’s work is individual and not influenced, his work is remembered and stops the viewer at exhibitions. "(Natalia Nsterova, academician of the Russian Academy of Arts.)

“Nikolai Larsky is a painter of a wide range, with a high professional culture, his works organically combine appeal to the traditions of the classical Russian avant-garde with a bright personality of the author’s style” - (Alexander Rozhin, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts)

“Light-faced” - this is how Alexei Shulgin describes the artist’s work in his article about N. Larsky (Alexey Shulgin, public figure, art critic)

In the "Unified Artistic Rating of Artists of the Russian Empire, the USSR, the" Russian Abroad ", the Russian Federation and the Republics of the Former Soviet Union", N. Larsky rating 3B, in accordance with this rating he is included in the "International Artistic Rating" The Greatest Artists of the World XVIII-XXI centuries ”(see the website www.best. artunion.ru).

Still life of Nikolai Larsky, singing a hymn to the divine beauty of nature, a generous sunny summer, filled with a riot of colors, give the audience a sense of joy and delight:

A poem about the eternal, July summer,
These flowers are endlessly magical,
Finding happiness forever
Fabulous, unfading…
Fragrant, deep breath…