Solana Fine Art

Solana‘s Artists:

Anatoly Lubavin

Anatoly Lubavin is a painter and graphic artist of the Moscow academic school. He was born in Moscow in 1956. He finished technical institute, the Surikovsky Institute and then studied under a number of masters at the Academy of Arts. He is a member of the Russian Union of Artists. He was awarded the Laureate Prize by the USSR Union of Artists and the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (2003). He has participated in over fifty exhibitions. He teaches painting at the strongest influences on his painting style are the works of Vasily Surikov, Viktor Borisov-Musatov, Pavel Kuznetsov, Pavel Basmanov, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Giorgio Morandi and Natalya Goncharova.

It is difficult to define Anatoly Lubavin’s paintings. His works are devoid of allegory and optical trickery. He does not imitate nature. In terms of their conception they are more or less still lives. In terms of personae they are like “a photographic postcard in the mind”. In terms of their colourful plasticity and rhythm they are musical compositions. Distorted perspective, figures and objects are subordinated to a figurative-pictorial roll call, giving birth to a lyrical dialogue on the canvas.

His works are a fleeting impression but more importantly a meticulous search and selection of that singular plasticity and pictorial art that creates the unique harmony of the picture.
The artist’s works can be found in the Serpukhovsky Art Museum, the Sochi Art Museum, the Russian Cultural Foundation, the Podolsky Regional Museum, the K.S. Petrov-Vodkin Picture Gallery (Khvalinsk), the Russian-Italian Cultural Association (San-Pietro, Italy), the Filimonov Gallery (Moscow) and also in private collection all over Europe, Asia and America.
“Anatoly Lubavin’s work is a unique world, which is a rarity among professional artists. It is unusually tremulous, slender and delicate while at the same time being courageous and slightly ironic.

In terms of colour, plasticity, imagery and themes it is not particularly multi-faceted and is excited neither by politics nor universal social problems. Instead of this it depicts the harmonious world of a close circle of people, animals and plants in an urban milieu”.

A. Lubavin,’ Waiting for the Celebration ’

A. Lubavin, ‘Ballerinas’

A. Lubavin, ‘Swing’