Biography
Pavel Antipov was born near Moscow (Hot’kovo) in 1979. He entered the Russian Academy of Arts in Saint-Petersburg, the faculty of painting in 2000.
It is painting that is the most comfortable way for the artist to speak with the viewers and to talk to himself. By his artworks he tries to tell us about important vital things, about his emotions, moreover he gives the viewer philosophical questions for considering. From Pavel’s point of view, the most important goal of his art is the representation of interconnection of the simple and difficult, which surrounds us in our ordinary life. Pavel is aimed to give the maximum simple images which embodies difficult philosophical themes.
His artistic style was formed due to the studying of the art decorative sources in Abramcevskiy college, the academic style of painting in the Academy of Arts and the coloring and forms of icons. The compilation of the different artistic schools and Pavel’s comprehension of art have formed the recognizable author’s style.
Maria Melnikova
Art critic
“Pavel Antipov has already passed definite way in the search of his own artistic manner. He experiments with the line, color and different styles of the past. It is very difficult to include Pavel’s art in some tendency. He stands consciously opposite to contemporary art’s area, but in the same time he doesn’t work in the limits of academic tradition of painting. He uses the methods of symbolism, impressionism, surrealism and suprematism.”
Anastasia Karlova
Art critic, employee of Ludwig’s museum
in The Russian State Museum
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