Russian artist Nikas Safronov

Famous Russian artist Nikas Safronov (Nikolai Stepanovich Safronov) was born in the town of Ulyanovsk, on April 8, 1956. Western collectors purchased more than 700 of his works. Among current owners – Sophia Loren, Pierre Cardin, Gerard Depardieu, Diana Ross, Montserrat Caballe, Mikhail Gorbachev, and other well-known people of our time. He painted portraits of many world famous personalities: Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Presidents of Turkey, Ecuador, Brazil, the King of Spain, Julio Iglesias, Diana Ross, Montserrat Caballe, Jack Nicholson, Sting, Elton John, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner and many others. Russian Noble Society gave him the title of Prince in 1997. Besides, in October 1996, astronomers from the United States named a new star in the constellation of Andromeda after Nikas Safronov.

Nikas Safronov – an artist who manages the unthinkable: to show life as it is and at the same time such as we would all like to see it. How does he do it? Perhaps this is the biggest mystery of Nikas’ creativity.

For the history of Russian art from the late 20th- early 21st century Nikas Safronov did more than anybody else. Today his paintings – the icon of contemporary Russian culture, and bright images that even people far from painting understand. Real art should be like that. No need to be an expert to understand painting professionally. In other words, art is not created for experts.

“What is essential is invisible to the eye” – said the character of Antoine de Saint- Exupery. Nikas Safronov as if enters the dispute with Little Prince and as a decisive argument gives us the opportunity to see the “most important thing”. In essence, Safronov is the same fabulous romantic. But, unlike his antagonist, he is a romantic master, romantic worker, romantic perfectionist. Skill and labor are capable of miracles. The most important invisible to the eye – unless these are eyes of Nikas Safronov.

How not to be tempting to plunge into the world of illusions and visions embodied in the paintings of Nikas Safronov? It is a constant dialogue with eternity and history, which runs through the line of all the works of the Master.

Marital status: divorced. Was married twice. The first wife was beautiful Frenchwoman, second-Italian. Lives and works in Moscow, Russia, Italy, England. The artist is the author of the book “Anatomy of a scandal and success” (2003) and “Visions of heaven and hell. Metamorphoses of Nikas Safronov “(2004).

Russian artist Nikas Safronov

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