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Sergei Tiranin
What the author says about himself :
I was born in 1936, February 25, in the city of
Samara. I have been drawing since my childhood. In 1954 I finished the Art
school at Suvorov Military College in Samara. I have always been attracted
by the paintings of old masters, much taken from the real life. In 1960 I
graduated from the Drama School at the Academic Drama Theatre in Samara.
At various times I worked at different theatres of Russia: in Samara,
Kostroma, Stavropol, Volgograd. In 1968 I was invited to work in Moldova.
Since that time I have been working at the Checkov Russian Drama Theatre
in Chishinau.
It began to grow the necessity to
chive the thoughts and images overfilling me and to reflect my visions on
the canvas. Theatre decants of its specific character - that is to say the
dependence on the playwright and the director-limited the possibility of
self-expression. Thirst for knowledge and skill overcame me.
After graduating from the Repin Institute of
Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in S’-Petersburg in 1984 I got the
art-critic diploma. I devoted all my free time to painting. I paint mainly
in oils. Most of my canvases we recreated from my own imagination, but I
always was fallowed by reminiscences and impressions I got in my life. My
creative work was determined by the following essential moments: faith in
God, intuition, spiritual character and ethical implication. As for the
technique of painting I adhere to tonic painting, but if the subject
acquired to me the achievements of the expressionists in the realm of
color and form. I prefer varied textures - the combination of priming
touch. The main elements of my compositions were: the silhouette and the
counter - lacy design, 5the chiaroscuro, lint and color contrast. My
passion for avant-gardism’s by no means a caprice or a Tribute to the
fashion - it’s most likely an attempt to solve in a proper way a certain
artistic idea - that is to say to find a formalistic device for the sense
and image - bearing formula made up by me. I liked to work in the genres
of composition portraiture and landscapes.
My
ethical and artistic credo was:” We are happy prisoners of the word, which
was the God shining with Beauty and Grace. That was why my name was - to
represent this Beauty. God’s Light (Radiance), the emanation of the God in
nature and people in my paintings.”
You may often
felt a kind of subtle sadness in my canvases, became I never forgot the
philosophical principle” Memento moiré...” I felt happy when I saw sincere
people with a smile on their face or with the tears in their eyes,
standing in front of my pictures. Then it appeared a wish to say:” I am
working not in vain.”
Sergei Tiranin.
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