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SaveThe Venetian story
| Year of creation | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 80 W × 35 H × 25 D cm |
| Weight | 3 kg |
| Type of art | sculpture |
| Style | realism |
| Genre | genre |
| Materials | Bronze |
Description of the Artwork “The Venetian story”
The Venetian carnival carries a veil of mystery thanks to attractiveness and elaborateness of fancy dresses and the mystery of faces hidden under masks. The composition is a sketch of time depicting a scene on a Venetian pier that must have played out numerous times during the carnival: a cavalier and a lady on a channel bank, heading towards the city center to join the festival. Or maybe they are completely unknown and are striving to escape the noise of the masquerade. The sculpture does not focus the viewer’s attention exclusively on the couple, as they are an indispensable part of this carnival, just as a gondola and small waves, calmly lapping on the shore. The open storyline of the composition allows the viewer to reconstruct the story of his own, whereas all the surroundings and details put him into the mysterious atmosphere of this wonderful festival.
Anatoly Popov, Georgia
Anatoly Popov is a professional sculptor. After graduating from a youth art school in his home city, he entered Pensa Artistic College in 2011 and then earned a Bachelor degree at Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 2017. Thus, he has dedicated 11 years of his life to higher professional education, and keeps enhancing the style and techniques for the futher life, adhering to the school of realism and principles of fine art aestetics. The artist's inspiration can be ignited by a wide variety of topics. Most of the works are dedicated to historical or mythological images and personalities, which is an eternal topic reinterpreted from generation to generation. Occasionally the topic of nature and wildlife enters the portfolio, with the wonderful relationships often much closer to people's feelings than it seems. The artist is deeply convinced that a piece of art must give aesthetic pleasure to the viewer, inspire and let him or her experience the beauty of the world independently from the selected topic. In any work a lot of attention is dedicated to the sculpture's plastic component: aesthetics and dynamics of the composition, the harmony of visual rhythms. The composition lies at the core of any creation, allowing to convey the feeling and mood of sculpture. At the same time the viewer can always find a lot of details catching the eye and inviting to examine, while in some of the works decorative elements can reveal the whole story.