Carnival Painting

Arthur Nikitin was born in 1936 in St.-Petersburg. In 1962 he graduated from the Latvian Academy of Arts. His field comprises painting, graphic arts, sculpture, and design. He is a member of the Artist Union of Latvia and a lecturer at the Latvian Academy of Arts, Design Department. Arthur Nikitin is an analyst by nature. In his search for the hidden, internal and sacred he deforms and destroys conventional forms, shocks by his informality and delights with sophisticated taste. The artist excites one's imagination and irritates with ideas that cannot be interpreted unequivocally. Even time in his works seems indeterminate: it flows to eternity and suddenly is squeezed into a single moment. Like every artist, he strives for objectivity. And in his search for essence, he makes "magic mistakes", proving to us recurrently how important it is to an artist to omit the insignificant and emphasize the characteristic features by applying any method grotesque to idealizing the image to an "anti canon". His works there are in the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), The Pushkin's Museum (Moscow) and more other Museums of Ex-USSR and Latvia. More than 300 of his pictures had been sold in private collections and galleries in Russia, Latvia, Europe, Israel, Malta, Canada, and the USA.