Little
sketch about contemporary Russian academic paintings and China art market.
Today’s Russian academic art, with a few exeptions, follows soviet union traditions of so called “social realism”. A few examples of this style are below:
Today’s Russian academic art, with a few exeptions, follows soviet union traditions of so called “social realism”. A few examples of this style are below:
As we can
see, this style is not the thing we can call “contempoprary” art. But there are
still a lot of artists, who tries to follow this art style nowadays, in Russia . First
of all, at the institutes, which belongs to the RAH (Russian academy of fine
arts). Teachers, who also called themselves artists, producing a lot of art
pieces, which does not have any chance to be exhibited among contemporary,
fresh art objects.
As a result, the market possibilities for this art works are also very limited.
"...In order to cater to the Chinese market, Russian painters have also adjusted their styles."
"...Yury Kalyuta, a noted artist in St. Petersburg, often exhibits his paintings in China. Some of his best pieces have sold in the range of RMB 200,000 to 300,000."
"...Such a strong demand from the Chinese market could hardly be met by the limited output of Russian artists. As a result, reproduction workshops flourished and the shanzhai products have come into vogue with common art lovers put off by the high costs of original works."
As a sample, let’s have a look at the paintings of Mr. A.Chuvin, dean of
painting faculty of Repin art institute.
Winter:
As we can
see, there is no big difference in subjects, colours and style. This similarity helps to produce such “artworks”
in huge amounts, in short time periods.
If we take
a closer look, we will see poor quality of the painting technique. It is
allways funny to see the small details of the painting, they sometimes can make
you smile.
Trees and the house are painted with absolutely the same crappy color; sky, roof and water also shares the same bluish dirt. Luck of paint? Or, maybe, some vision decease?
Check this
pretty stones at the foreground, sharing same color with the sky. Also, check
the estimate of this Chuvin’s masterpiece. Would you buy it for just 15000 $?
Find any difference, or "how to make a unique
artwork". Do not forget - this
are completely different, independent
artworks.
Another possibility is to use works of another artists, to exhibit (and sell)
them as paintings of more expensive artist.
Because almost all students and professors share the same, chineese-welcome
style, changing the description is always an option.
Why not taking the son’s painting (also Chuvin), and, changing one letter, also adding a zero to the right end of the price estimate?
Is it any difference? Looks like there is NO
difference at all. Except increasing of price level.
Of course, this Chuvin’s works are only a samples of contemporary Russian academy's way of making art. There are a lot of professors, doing the same things, the same way, following this "Chuvin style".
More examples could be found here:
http://www.cnicif.com/people/elszq/
http://www.cnicif.com/people/elszq/