Andrej Vystropov

Andrej Vystropov (26.12.1961) belongs to a generation of Russian painters whose maturing art is fast becoming widely acclaimed not only in their own birth country but also on the European art scene. Andrej had emerged from the balmy bubble of St. Petersburg's prestigious Academy of Fine Arts into painful reality in the early 1990s; now, a decade of enormous talent and will power later, he is the darling of reputable art dealers, curators, wealthy patrons and art-loving neophytes alike.
Andrej's meteor-like ascendance into the rarified world of high art is founded on an exceptionally vivid and moving way of communicating with the audience. At the heart of his success is a compelling, meticulous technique which shows affinity the technique of great renaissance masters whose fabled collection of works he had had the opportunity to study in the State Hermitage of St. Petersburg.
Andrej's oils are famous for their realistic rendition of their themes, achieved by faithful attention to even the slightest detail and remarkable sensitivity to the powerful interplay-dreamy at times, and harsh and brutal at others-of light and color. The message is delivered via symbolism; seemingly incongruous objects, symbols of parts, are combined int...

Andrej Vystropov started his studies in the art and graphics department of
St Petersburg Pedagogical Institute. In 1982, with taking any examinations, he transferred to the second grade of Repin's Institute of Painting, the former Rozal Academz of Art, in St Petersburg. He mastered drawing in the studio of the famous Russian painter and art historian, E.E.Mojseenko.