Nikas biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Taking a constant need for self -improvement, the artist travels a lot, studies the technique of great masters of the past in museums and collections of the world, gets acquainted with the masterpieces of culture. His active life and wide contacts contribute to the fact that his personality becomes no less attractive and popular than his work.

The childhood of Nikas Safronov Nikas Safronov was born in the year in Ulyanovsk in a poor family of a retired military man. Four older brothers and younger sister were the faithful companions of his childhood, and the artist Nikas Safronov, Father Safronov, Safron Stepan Grigoryevich, from a family of hereditary Orthodox priests who leads their beginning, according to the annals of Simbirsk, from a year, from a year from the year.

Mom Safronova Anna Fedorovna was born in the Lithuanian panevziza, by nationality - a half -leaf -half -polufin. Based on this, the Lithuanian pseudonym of the artist - Nikas appeared. By the way, the man greatly revered his mother, so he built a temple in her honor. The study of Nikas Safronova, studying at a comprehensive school, young Nikolai became interested in drawing, copying book illustrations and reproductions, developing his own romantic style, thus embodying his dreams of travel and adventure.

At that time he did not think about making fine art at that time. After the eighth grade, Nikas Safronov went to Odessa. There he entered the naval school, but studied for only a year. After he went to Rostov-on-Don and here until a year he studied at an art school. At the same time, the young man worked as a button artist in the Rostov Youth Theater, and also worked as a watchman, a loader and a janitor.

Nick Safronov and his pictures of the school did not finish this way - he was called to serve in the rocket forces in the Estonian city of Valga. After demobilization, Nikas went to Lithuania, to his mother’s homeland, to the city of Panevezis. And here for some time he worked at the Banionis Donatas Theater as a theater designer and at the same time worked as a fabric by the fabrics at the flax plant.

In the historical homeland, Safronov, however, did not linger for a long time. In the year he moved to Vilnius. Three years later, the artist went to storm Moscow. Here he graduated from the Surikov Institute of the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. Surikov and remained in the capital forever. He also has a diploma of the Moscow State University of Technology and Management, where he was listed at the Faculty of Psychology.

From a year, he has been actively writing, he has been actively writing, and sells his works, and from his first personal exhibition of the year in Panevezis, he became known as a bright surrealist, portrait painter and experimenter. In the year, his first personal serious exhibition in Vilnius took place. Then he moved to Moscow. Nikas Safronov - elusive, however, in the Russian capital, Nikas Safronov was engaged not only in creativity.

In the early 10ths of the last century, he first worked as an art director, and then the main artist of the Russian version of the journal Penthouse. In parallel, he worked as a designer and consultant to the Aura-Zet scientific publication, as well as the magazines of the World of Stars and Diplomat. Nikas Safronov and his paintings Nikas Safronov painted portraits of a number of public and political figures, as well as show business stars.

Many personal exhibitions and the active acquisition of work by state museums around the world created him an extensive clientele and army of fans. Over the past few years, Safronov has achieved not small. In particular, his work was seen in the year at the Krasnodar Art Museum, visitors to the Russian Portrait of the St. Petersburg gallery in the year, a year later, they were exhibited in Vitebsk and Kharkov as part of the Slavic Bazaar International Art Festival.

At the end of the paintings of Nikas were presented in the 14th building of the Kremlin complex Management of the Russian President. At the beginning of the year, Nikas’s work was seen in Mordovia, in the Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after Erzi, at the same time the residents of Cheboksar, Yoshkar-Ola saw the paintings. And in the summer of the year, his exhibition was held at the Consulate General in Munich.

In the following years, the exhibitions continued in a number of other cities of Russia. Thus, almost all residents of the country personally were able to see the paintings of Nikas Safronov. Nikas Safronov. The secret of success in Nikas Safronov is a rather extensive range of artistic addictions, and the artist is in constant creative search. He managed to gain recognition of the general public.

Safronov’s personal exhibitions always become a cultural event in the life of the country, thousands of painting lovers gather at them. And the artist’s works themselves dispersed through the museums of Russia and the world, as well as private collections. The series of psychological portraits of contemporaries, unconditionally recognized by the best modern achievements of this genre, were widely fame to Nikas.But the desire for paintings as works of imagination never left him, no matter how successful and demanded his activity as a portraitist was.

After long professional and general cultural studies, Nikas summarized his ideas and created his own direction “Dream Vision”, technically based on classical painting and actively using not only imagination and intuition, but subconscious and unconscious sensations. Thanks to the extensive cultural context of the Dream Vision canvas, they became popular in different countries and layers of society.

The professionalism and content of the work of Nikas Safronov, his highly individual manner are noted as an undoubted contribution to world art and are confirmed by many titles and awards; His creative and personal life became the plot of the foundation of literary and film production, and charity and educational activities earned wide recognition. It turned out that portraits are photographs painted with paint.

This was discovered by buyers. And the first to this essential detail was noteworthy was the ex-Minister of the Interior of Russia A. Dunaev, who gave two thousand dollars for the portrait of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. According to the Izvestia newspaper, there are more similar portraits of the president in Russia than the works of Safronov himself.

Well, Nikas, in turn, accused Alexander Gaisin of unauthorized manufacturing of portraits of producer Alexander Gaysin. The latter said that the release of fake paintings occurs only with the permission of the artist himself. Gaisin said that the portrait of the governor of the Ulyanovsk region V. Shamanov is nothing more than a drawing in paints. The portrait, by the way, was awarded to the head of the region personally Safronov.

Nikas Safronov and his apartment: visiting the artist in his interview in the year, he stated that his three paintings are now in the Hermitage. However, later it turned out that not a single canvas of Safronov in one of the main museums of St. Petersburg. For an official request, the director of the Hermitage answered this way. And in response to this, Nikas Safronov said that he meant the “biscuits”, which were blind from plasticine, and then poured into a special shape, as well as a painted plate.

Simultaneously with these events, a number of negative characteristics from art historians, in particular, director of the multimedia complex of actual arts, head of the department of the second half of the twentieth century of the Tretyakov Gallery, as well as an award of the Moscow State Art Institute named after Surikov, came about the work of Nikas Safronov. The artist was awarded the title Honored Artist of Russia, an honorary citizen of Russia, is a professor at the State University of the Ulyanovsk Region, as well as an honorary citizen of Ulyanovsk, academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, an honorary member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and the Kazakh National Academy of Arts named after T.

Nikas Safronov receives a reward from the president’s hands for Nikas Safronov awarded the Order of Nin. St. Constantine the Great, the Order of St. Stanislav, the Order of St. Anna of the II degree, the Order of the Russian Patron, the Order of the Service of Art of the 1st degree “Golden Star”, the Order of the Monk Seraphim of the III degree, the Order of the “Rus Sovereign”, the Order of the Club of Orthodox Patrony, the Order of the Russian Academy of the Russian Academy Natural sciences profession - life, the gold medal of the Russian Academy of Arts, the gold medal of Azerbaijan, the gold medal of the American Academy of Sciences and Arts, the gold medal "In the name of Russia", the gold medal "National Utility".

Nikas Safronov now in February in November, the Club of Orthodox philanthropists awarded Nikas by the Order "For Blessing".

In the spring of G., the Russian Academy of Arts, by a decision of the Presidium, awarded Nikolai Stepanovich Safronov “Golden Medal” by Nikas Safronov at the opening of an exhibition in St. Petersburg in August, Nikas Safronov organized an exhibition in the city of St. Petersburg, posting more paintings in the Titian Hall of the Research Museum of the Academy of Arts. The personal life of Nikas Safronov Nikas Safronov was married twice.

His first marriage lasted 20 days. His wife was called Dragan, they got married in a year. The artist met his second wife Franca in the year. The son remained with his mother, they live in London. Now Nikas Safronov lives a civil marriage with a girl Masha. The first was born in the year, now he has become a pianist. Landin was born in the year, and at the moment he lives in Australia.

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