Russian Hunting Painting

In the picture Hunting, produced in early 2007, the interest of a documentarian artist was primarily embodied. He studied in depth the smallest nuances of hunting of late XIX – early XX centuries, carefully selected the costumes, searched how each stage of this beautiful activity was performed. The picture was made on the motifs of a panel customized by the painter for a billiards club in Moscow. It was Simon who offered the theme of the panel to the customer; originally, it was planned to place on one of the walls of the central hall a composition dedicated to the history of playing billiards. The panel’s sketch was created with the help of advanced computer technologies, in the Photoshop programme. It is a photo collage, compositionally prolonged, like a frieze. For the billiards club’s interior decoration this sketch was expanded to the scale of a four-metre banner and was painted in oil over the printed image to achieve an effect of fine and detailed oil painting. This technique, approved by the customer after a slight hesitancy, speeded up the process of the panel creation considerably, the duration of work being only two weeks, which is no doubt a pioneering achievement for a decorating artist. On completing the work for the club decoration, the author decided to develop its sketch in a painting piece. The choice of the topic is explained by the artist’s long-standing interest to the theme of hunting in the history of arts. Already since the prehistoric times the depiction of hunting was associated in the human consciousness with a mindset for success. The shamans’ magical drawings on the walls of the Altamir cave guaranteed success in the real chase. Rooted on a genetic level, the memory of this has been preserved up to the present. Like a talisman, Hunting, due to bring success, decorated the halls of palaces, study rooms, living rooms; now it is, too, one of the popular topics of contemporary painting.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:78.7 W x 19.7 H x 0.8 D in

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