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| Year of creation | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 60 W × 82 H × 30 D cm |
| Weight | 30 kg |
| Type of art | sculpture |
| Style | realism |
| Genre | portrait |
| Materials | Gypsum |
Description of the Artwork “Diego Velasquez”
The sculptural portrait was created based on a self-portrait of Spanish artist Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velasquez from the XVII century. The artist started his career with depicting life of common people and reached to receive the sole right to paint the monarch Philippe IV. At the height of his rapid career, already being a court painter, Velasquez creates a gloomy self-portrait with his face half-turned, full of anxiety and thoughtfulness. A true challenge of transforming this self-portrait into a sculpture was to reproduce this tension and gloom using the expressive means offered by sculpture instead of the dark color scheme and the play of shadows that were used in the original painting. The facial expression of the artist was intensified to reflect his restless nature and immersion in his creative development even at the peak of his wealthy court life.
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.