Face Painting

Alexander Maltsev, was born in 1959 in the village of "Star" of the Samara region. There is first picked up a brush, resulting in confusion parents. But from this vicious boy, chained to two years in a hospital bed because of spinal diseases, only one could expect ... Next on the rise: traction to draw everything and everywhere, up the works of great masters, without training in receipt of the Samara Art School on the first try. Individualism is generally the cornerstone for Maltsev. "The artist only took place when he found his own, distinct style of all. Today there is no concept of "school", the is only creator and canvas front" - said Alexander. But then a 80-s, not all shared this opinion. So after graduation, Maltsev had decided to leave from Samara. I wrote a year for 50-60 canvases, rolls took them to Moscow, he studied ancient Russian art, talked with the Moscow artists. And he noticed. Grew out of the once famous exhibitions of contemporary art gallery in the Little Georgia "Mars" has bought 50 canvases, half was immediately sold out. Maltsev meanwhile, worked as a guard for 90 rubles to support his family and was very surprised at the head of a huge fallen on those standards, money and writing a proposal to urgently leave the capital for further study in the International Art Academy in Yugoslavia, which he successfully completed. The Academy has formed and strengthened the basis for creation of Alexander: an unusual approach to thinking about color, icon-painting techniques of addiction is almost unlimited internal dynamics. A symbiosis of iconography and expressionism - as some critics have called the style, which works Maltsev. It does not use a lot of color, but it only highlights the symbolic value.Indeed, the apparent simplicity of always hiding a secret. So with paintings: the more obvious it seems to you the story, the more that the requires the solution to it... The canvas can be admired for a long time Maltsev, while constantly discovering new things. But the most surprising discovery for visitors is not the quirkiness of the plot or the play of colors, not even a powerful energy, emanating from each blade, and the space within the picture. Amazingly, it does not stand still. It is in constant motion. It is worth a look...