Exhibition Andrey Kugaevsky "Summer of the Lord ..."

The Russian Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of works by Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts Andrey Kugaevsky "Summer of the Lord…". The exposition consisted of about three dozen paintings created by the author over more than 30 years of creative activity.

“Summer of the Lord…” is not only warm sunny days - it is spring, winter, autumn - a year that is given to the artist in order to relive and reflect the beauty of the world around him again and again. According to the author, the goal in the visual arts is not only the ability to accurately depict the visible world, and even not so much this, but the need to find a measure of the relationship between the visual reliability of the image and artistic generalization. Only as a result of this dualism can the Image appear. In search of a natural motive consonant with the idea, the state of the soul, he is always on the road, with a sketchbook, walking under the sun and rain along “meridians and parallels”… The coloristic restraint of Russian nature adjoins the luxury of sunny Crimea at the exhibition, landscapes. He seeks and finds vivid images and shares his observations with the viewer. The impressions of southern nature to a large extent helped to synthesize the basic principles of pictorial art - the exact drawing underlying the composition and each time found its own color scheme, transforming the paint into a specific color harmony.

Andrey Alexandrovich Kugaevsky was born in 1958 in Arzamas, Gorky region. He received a classical academic education at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I. E. Repin, where he studied with the famous masters of Russian fine arts Yu. M. Neprintsev, O. A. Eremeev, V. F. Zagonek. In his work, the artist prefers the landscape genre. Since 1986, he has been a regular participant in city, regional and republican exhibitions, all-Russian and regional projects Our Contemporary, Petersburg-Moscow, Artists for the City, annual autumn and spring exhibitions of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists.

In 1988, Andrei Kugaevsky was invited as the chief artist to the publishing house of the Petropol Cultural Foundation. Having extensive artistic experience, he participated in the publication and designed dozens of albums on art, in particular, the albums "Academic Dacha", "Three Centuries of Petersburg Ballet", albums-monographs of Academicians V. M. Oreshnikov, O. A. Eremeev, V. F. Zagonek, A. N. Blioka, published the book "The Sower" about the spiritual teacher Archpriest Vasily Ermakov. The artist’s works are in museum and private collections. He is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, Honorary Doctor of Arts of the International Academy of Education, Technology and Art, awarded a diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts, a medal "For Merit in Art" of the Russian Union of Cultural and Art Workers.