History of New York City # 9. Painting

Viacheslav Zaykin is a contemporary artist working in France, known for his distinctive blend of surreal figurative imagery and emotionally charged dreamscapes. His work explores the tension between abstraction and reality, often transforming the human form into symbolic visual metaphors. Drawing from a background in design and classical painting, Zaykin incorporates rich textural elements, layered surfaces, and bold chromatic contrasts—particularly his recurring use of blue nude figures as meditative subjects. His compositions are often introspective, inviting the viewer into a space between chaos and memory, emotion and structure. He works across multiple mediums—oil, acrylic, gold leaf, and digital interventions—embracing unpredictability and process. His portraits and figures become vessels for a deeper dialogue between material and sensation, where the emotional portrait becomes a bridge to the subconscious. Zaykin’s art speaks to collectors seeking authenticity, complexity, and poetic visual language.