The scandal that flared up around the paintings of the famous painter turned into a detective story. First, the buyers of paintings by Nikas Safronov found a computer fake instead of works of art. The artist blamed his producer Alexander Gaysin for the appearance of fakes. Now offended, Gaisin said that the production of fake paintings was carried out with the permission of Safronov himself. The first to sound the alarm was Andrey Dunaev, a former Russian interior minister living in Ulyanovsk, who paid $2,000 for a portrait of Putin painted by Nikas. He acquired it through Alexander Gaisin. After some time, Dunaev found out that the "work" was simply printed on the canvas from the printer, and painted on top. The former minister, having discovered hack-work, was very offended. It soon turned out that there were more such paintings throughout Russia than the real works of Safronov himself. They are also sold in the kiosks of the Federation Council, hanging in the State Duma and famous politicians. After the rumor about fakes spread throughout Moscow, Nikas Safronov turned to the Lefortovo police department of the capital, accusing his countryman and Ulyanovsk producer Alexander Gaisin of being involved in the appearance of fakes. "At first I discovered that my sketches and slides were missing," the artist said, "then it turned out that fakes were stamped from them in Ulyanovsk." According to Safronov, a whole guard of artists acted under the leadership of Gaysin, forging his paintings. And yesterday, Alexander Gaisin told Izvestia that the forgeries were stamped not only with the knowledge, but also with the permission of the artist himself. Even the portrait of the Ulyanovsk governor Shamanov, solemnly presented to the general, is nothing more than a painted computer drawing, the producer assures. For the production of fakes, he had documents and contracts signed by Safronov, and he also intended to turn to the police. However, on the eve of the artist's appeal to the police, Gaysin's Moscow apartment was robbed, all the slides, contracts and even identity documents of the producer were stolen. According to Gysin, all this happened for a reason. “Thank God, my wife is a lawyer,” says Alexander, “it was she who advised me to make a copy for each document, so I won’t be able to accuse me of fraud.” Supporters of Nikas believe that Alexander Gaysin is hiding behind a fake contract. He really has a contract with Nikas to distribute his copies. However, it does not say that copies should be given out as originals. But Gysin sold all the paintings as the true creations of Safronov. - Do not believe a single word of this swindler, - Nikas Safronov told Izvestia, - and he forged documents. And my signatures too! I did not pass off other people's work as my own! And if there were fakes somewhere, then without my knowledge. Opponents of the famous artist have a different opinion. Fake is fake. After all, Gysin also sold computer pictures, painted by Safronov himself. It turns out that the artist seems to have painted them himself. But can this work be classified as a work of art? Is it possible to call such a picture a fake? These are the questions that are now to be resolved by the investigation. Well, most Ulyanovsk residents believe that both heroes of the sensational scandal - both Gaisin and Safronov - if they did some kind of scam, then together.
Nikas Safronov.
Location: Russia, Ulyanovsk
In his hometown, Nikas completed 8 classes of high school, and Then he continued his education at the Odessa Nautical School. Despite the fact that the sea has always attracted Nikas, he soon realized that this was not his path. After studying in a sailor for a year, he moved to Rostov-on-Don and entered the Grekov Art College, where from 1973 to 1975 he studied painting. The young artist combined his studies with work at the Rostov Theater of the Young Spectator as a prop artist. Nikas failed to graduate from art school. He was drafted into the army. He served in the rocket troops in Estonia, in the city of Valga, even on combat duty he continued to paint, for which he had complaints, and when this was discovered by officers, the paintings were burned at the stake.
After military service, he moved to Lithuania, where Nikas was lucky enough to work as an artist in the theater of D. Banionis. In Vilnius, Nikas Safronov entered the Art Institute (now the Academy of Arts), received his education from 1978-1982, studied design.
The first personal exhibition of Nikas Safronov was held in 1978 in Panevezys. In the same year, quite unexpectedly for a first-year student at the Vilnius Art Institute, one of his paintings was among the two selected for the International Art Exhibition in Paris, at the Pompidou Center. In 1980, a personal exhibition of the artist was held in Vilnius.
In 1983, Nikas Safronov moved to Moscow, tried to get into exhibitions, but he was forbidden to exhibit. In 1985, Nikas Safronov took part in the International Erotic Art Exhibition in the capital of Japan, in 1986 - in the International Erotic Art Exhibition in Milan (Italy), then in 1987 France and Canada - 1988. Abroad, he met the Italian collector Cherazi . Thanks to perestroika in Russia, the artist's works began to appear at Russian exhibitions. In the late eighties, he began to work abroad a lot. In 1990, along with the works of nine other leading artists from different countries, N. Safronov's paintings were included in the book Erotic Fantasies, published in France.
Since 1992, he has been the art director of the Diplomat and MONOLITH Digest magazines. In 1995, his exhibition in Istanbul was held with great success, and in 1996 - personal exhibitions at the Academy of Arts (Moscow), in the M. Chagall Museum in Vitebsk (Belarus) and in Bergamo (Italy). During the celebration of the anniversary of the President of Azerbaijan H. Aliyev in May 1998, an exhibition of works by N. Safronov was held in Baku at the National Museum. This was followed by a new series of exhibitions: in June of the same year - at the State Museum in Odessa, in July - in Saratov at the Radishchev State Museum, in August - at the Central House of Artists in Moscow. In September 1998, he takes part in the international exhibition "Fashion is my profession", in October - the International exhibition "Euro-98" in Barcelona. In 1999, Nikas Safronov participated in the International Exhibition in Zurich (Switzerland), and in March-April 1999 his exhibitions were held in New York and at the Academy of Arts in Moscow. In 1999, a large personal exhibition was held in Yekaterinburg, in the fall of 1999 - in Moscow at the Monolit club, at the end of the same year - at the Moscow City Hall, at the beginning of 2000 - at the Cadet Corps in Moscow, in March 2000 - at the State the Kremlin Palace and the House of Friendship, in June 2000 - in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, an exhibition in the city of Vyborg as part of the Window to Europe film festival; exhibition in the city of Gelendzhik within the framework of the festival "Constellation of Arts" held by the Moscow Detective Club; in September 2000 - an exhibition in the city of Sochi as part of the Kinoshock festival, in 2001 - in Riga, the Russian Museum, 2002 - in Moscow, the Russian Cultural Fund hosts the exhibition "Portraits of Contemporaries", 2003 - London, Embassy of the Russian Federation in the UK, 2004 - Antwerp (Belgium) Exhibition Center in the Hilton Hotel, and in the State Art Museum in Krasnodar, in July 2005 - St. Petersburg, personal exhibition in the gallery "Russian portrait", in July 2006 personal exhibition within the framework of the international festival of arts "Slavianski Bazaar" in Vitebsk.
At the suggestion of the Moscow government, an action is being held to place reproductions of N. Safronov's paintings on billboards in order to decorate the city.
The range of creativity of N. Safronov is incredibly wide: icon painting, cubism, symbolism, and psychological portraits. The paintings, built on metaphor, symbols, subtle associations, the roll call of historical eras, take the viewer into the "cosmic space" of feelings and emotional experiences. In the most interesting and significant works of Nikas, there is always some kind of inner movement, because the paintings reflect the conflict or confidential communication of the body, mind and soul of the artist. The paintings turn out to be not only dynamic, but also multidimensional, so the eye-catching "cinematic" figurative structure can even give some idea of the spherical and polyscopic vision of his soul.
There is a lot of nudity in Nikas's early paintings. He became the first Russian artist to openly explore the line between art and pornography. Studying many old masters of Italy, Holland and Russia and using the studied technique in his current works, the artist, as it were, illustrates the present day, what has happened to Russian culture over the past 70 years, and meanwhile, as it were, anticipates repentance and purification, in its In his works, unbridled passion coexists with humility, sadness - with the incomprehensible joy of this and other worldly existence.
Nikita Mikhalkov said about him: "When the viewer, having had enough of the unusual images of Nikas Safronov's paintings, and the sophisticated forms and violent colors, stops at such canvases as, for example, "Nostalgia" or "Farewell, Russia", it becomes obvious to him: in addition to talent and skill, the artist has a tender soul, overflowing with the most contradictory feelings. "...He has a great imagination and unearthly creative energy. I think that his soul is struck by the life of the twentieth century, combining the search for God and blasphemy, faith and lack of will, romanticism and a hard look at fashion ..." - this is how Nikas Safronov regards the work Ilya Glazunov. On the one hand, his paintings are reminiscent of the traditions of Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel, Salvador Dali. On the other hand, they represent a completely special and somewhat perverted aspect of the modern Russian spirit: preoccupation with one's own indifference to politics, the mania for the sexual revolution, which is somewhat late in Russia, the loss of any illusions about any form of power.
Today Nikas Safronov is one of the most prominent Russian professional artists. His talent is not disputed either among specialists or by art lovers. Most of his works are familiar mainly from magazine reproductions, because most of the artist's paintings are in private collections in Russia and abroad, and also adorn museums in Western Europe and America. Western collectors have bought more than 700 of his paintings. Among their current owners are Sophia Loren, Pierre Cardin, Gerard Depardieu, Diana Ross, Montserrat Caballe, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nikita Mikhalkov and other prominent people of our time. All of them talk about their unusualness and miraculousness.
At one of the social receptions in Italy, Nikas Safronov met Sophia Loren, who posed for him for several paintings. Her collection - one of the richest in the world - contains five works by the artist. He painted portraits of many world-famous personalities: V.V. Putin, M. Gorbachev, S. Demirel, G. Aliyev and E. Aliyev, Y. Luzhkov, N. Mikhalkov, M. Magomayev, T. Sinyavskaya, P. Bul- Buloglu, A. Pugacheva, M. Rostropovich, Sophia Loren, Julio Iglesias, Diana Ross, Montserrat Caballe, Jack Nicholson, Sting, Elton John, Mick Jagger, Steven Seagal, Richard Gere, Pierre Richard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Annie Girardot , Mike Tyson, Clint Eastwood, David Bowie, Robert de Niro, Chris de Burgh, Elizabeth Taylor, Steven Spielberg, Tina Turner, Madonna and many others.
Nikas Safronov - Honorary Citizen of Russia. In October 1996, a star discovered by scientists from the United States in the constellation Andromeda was named after Nikas Safronov. The Organizing Committee of the "Secular Results of the Year" award for journalists announced the artist as the laureate of the "Most Secular Artist" award in 1998. In 2000, as the best artist, he was awarded the laureate diploma of the Russian Festival of Arts "Southern Nights-2000" in Gelendzhik.
Nikas Safronov is a professor at Ulyanovsk University (a branch of Moscow State University), where he teaches master classes and lectures. He is also an academician of the Russian Academy of Arts.Thousands of plots and documentaries shown on television are devoted to the work of Nikas Safronov. In recent years, seven albums of the artist have been released. In 2000, two albums were published in Germany: one - surrealistic works (recognized as the best art album in Germany), the other includes portraits of prominent figures of our time. In 2001, an album of selected works of the artist was published in Germany in the same place.
The artist is divorced, N. Safronov is especially proud of his son Stefano, who lives with his mother in the UK and is engaged in painting. Favorite writers - Maupassant, Flaubert, Shakespeare, Leonid Andreev, early Leo Tolstoy, Pushkin, (stories, novels), Gogol, Daniil Kharms, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Ilf and Petrov, F. Dostoevsky, I. Goncharov, O. Henry, Oscar Wilde . In her free time, she likes to read fairy tales of the peoples of the world, the poetry of Tyutchev and Zhukovsky. In cinema, he prefers films with mystical plots, detective stories, French and Italian comedies, as well as films directed by N. Mikhalkov, M. Scorsese, Michelangelo Antonioni, surreal films by Bonuel and Peter Grunvey. Favorite artists are Michelangelo, Guardi, Corot, Gustave Dore, Van Eyck, all Brueghels, Durer, El Greco J. Miro and, most beloved, the English artist William Turner.
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I'll start, perhaps, with the main thing: Safronov is not only not "the best in Russia." He is not an artist at all. He is a soap bubble, nothing more. Television made him “the most” and, oddly enough, the viewer with his indestructible desire to watch all kinds of shows from morning to evening. A real artist is not up to them; read the biographies of the masters: they practically had no personal life... Etudes, plein-airs, search for nature, round-the-clock work in the workshop - they practically lived in it. Ceremonial portraits (to order) of royal persons - not at all from the desire to become "court": this, at times, was dictated by the only opportunity to receive a decent fee for their work. ARTISTS OF ALL AGES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ALIEN TO TASTE AND ADAPTABILITY (Exception - Nalbandian who buried his talent in "Stalinianism"). How many of them died in poverty... Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt Van Rijn... The first was "dragged to the famous" by his younger brother Theo, giving the genius money to live on, buying him canvases and paints, paying for treatment in psychiatric clinics, where the artist fell as a result of depression caused by public rejection of his work ... The second is on the wane moneylenders came to life and described all his miserable property: the Dutch painter and world genius had nothing to pay the bills. They also arrested the most valuable thing that the artist had left shortly before his death. “...The DANAYA painting, size 185 X 202,” they wrote in their inventory, before loading the masterpiece into a wagon fitted for this purpose, along with kitchen utensils and primed canvases ... Nikas Safronov has no time to be creative: from one show he hurries to another, then to the third. On them, he tells a lot of interesting things from his personal life: how much does it cost him to repair the apartment he bought the other day; how he was robbed by a juvenile migrant worker, stealing his cell phone from the car in which Nikas gave a lift to an unscrupulous thief; talks about hundreds of novels (the latter, I believe, an order of magnitude more, since Nikas did not even recognize one of the host of former lovers who threw themselves on Nikas's chest right in the studio); talks about prices - from a hundred thousand rubles per kilo ... oh, sorry - for a picturesque unit ...
My most important disappointment in the work of Nikas Safronov is the lack of creativity in art. I did not see PAINTING in painting: on the few canvases depicting nature - some kind of dead, tortured landscapes, with a lack of aerial perspective. Linear perspectives are also incorrect (the vanishing point is either absent in them, or is somewhere somewhere); about the technique of glazing Nikas - a ruble for a hundred! - did not even hear; the outline of objects is too sharp; every detail in the overloaded composition screams: “I am the most beautiful!”; the artist's water is plasticine, that is, Nikas absolutely cannot write water; the clouds resemble cotton wool, since they are written only with zinc white ... “No, this is not Rockwell Kent,” I thought, looking at Safronov’s “clouds” (the American artist’s specialists count up to two hundred shades of white ...). Nikas's metaphorical language is overly fanciful and pretentious, the subtext of the plots - if there is one - I'm afraid, is clear only to the author: alas, his desire for imitation is frankly read in them. Dali's laurels haunt Nikas - this can be seen with the naked eye. And Nikas decided: “WHICH AM I WORSE?!”, giving a reading of the eternal. Only he did it not even at times, but by many orders of magnitude worse than the obsessed Spaniard ... Gallery of Safronov's portraits. A few words about her. All the same passion for detail. Portrait DiCaprio: the number of hairs in the eyebrows of the American star, dressed by Nikas in the costume of a nobleman of the 17th century, can be counted if desired; portrait Robert De Niro the viewer will remember the carefully written out wart; Clooney- the image of a poodle in a stupid wig; Pierre Richard- a smile of a gutta-percha doll with a network of frozen mimic wrinkles; Nicole Kidman- a glossy profile that gives the impression of posing for Playboy magazine, but not for a psychological portrait ... There is such a thing, it is called EPIDIOSCOPE; this is such a rather simple device made of mirrors and lenses: you put a photo in it, and the projection from the photo falls on the wall or canvas; you can draw a contour and then colorize the “portrayed” one ... When you look at the portraits of Nikas Safronov, you get the feeling that the “master” “sculpted” in this way. This feeling is also strengthened by the fact that everyone who came to the Safronov exhibition, willy-nilly, has to go through the halls of the first floor, where the works of geniuses of past eras are exhibited: Aivazovsky, Repin, Kramskoy, Shishkin, Polenov, Levitan ... Portrait Countess Bobrinsky, painted by Heinrich Manizer in 1878, you can admire for hours... Nikas, to my great regret, is not Manizer. It, alas, is just a gray puzzle in the same gray picture from our faded reality, and art is such a universal word that you can call it anything, even a painted cardboard signed by Nikas Safronov. P.S. I talked with an art critic, wept into her vest about my suffering as a deceived aesthete, which did not surprise her at all. “You know,” she said, “we have all my colleagues shocked by this exhibition! And how many artists visited her! Everyone has one opinion: this is kitsch with a claim to art ... ”I leafed through the book of reviews. One of them reads: “Nikas! Come to the first floor: learn painting!” P.P.S. Stopped on the way back to the bookstore. And there, in addition to books, they also sell paintings. I admired a small landscape painted in oil. Cool, I say, landscape. This is not Nikas Safronov, this is much better. The saleswoman looks at me and answers: “You are already the fifteenth person today who, perhaps, does not spit when talking about Safronov ...”. Vladimir RUDENKO Nikas Stepanovich Safronov Born on April 8, 1956 in Ulyanovsk. Nikas o... Question: Is Malevich's "Black Square" worth a million dollars or did Potanin overpay for it? No, it costs one dollar, ten more - the frame. It's just a hype thing. If you took your suit, proved that it is unique and sold for a million, then tomorrow there is every chance of selling it for two. There will definitely be someone who wants to buy. There is excitement around something. Of course, "Square" is not worth anything. Suppose we have forgotten, we do not know who Malevich, Dali, Leonardo da Vinci are. Of course, in this case, the choice will never fall on the Black Square. They won't even notice him. I think you need to be good at writing. Chagall, by the way, did not get more than a "deuce" at school. "Deuce" for him was like "five" for us. Then in Paris he brought something into the clouds. And it became a unique phenomenon. Like a show, promoted - and that's it! Often this has little to do with art. Or just a cube was taken from one sculptor in London. Broken down brick by brick. The museum again folded the cube and paid one and a half million dollars for the idea. Here's how it's done! And finally, PLAGIA: William Bouguereau Captured 1891 Nikas Safronov Angel 1993 Nikas about himself.... Question: It's no secret that not everyone likes your work. Some people consider you a successful businessman, but a bad artist. You know, a person who says this is either an amateur or stupid and illiterate. Because a literate person, in principle, cannot have such an approach. Well, you can’t say about a person who is successful in the profession, who entered the hundred of the most famous professionals in Russia according to Kommersant and Expert magazine and the twenty most famous artists in the world according to the English encyclopedia, to say that he is bad. In the end, I painted portraits of 26 presidents. Were they all stupid and uneducated? In any case, each of them is surrounded by a large team of professionals, including in the field of art. If I wrote badly, would I get serious commissions? Question: If they gossip, then they remember ... No, I'm now of a different opinion. This is when you are on the initial path of your creativity, it is not so important for you what they say about you. And when you are already an established master, professor, academician and you have thousands of fans who perceive you as a person, this is already more than unpleasant. If I were a scandalous artist, it would be another matter. And I oversee and financially support two schools that bear my name. I am friends, and I help the All-Russian Society of the Blind as much as I can. I build churches. I don't want such bad information to come out about me. You know, we have a lot of outright lies in the media. Some people, as if on purpose, introduce hatred for their country, for family values, for each other. This is what needs to be stopped! I was in Rostov-on-Don in the summer, and they showed me piranhas there. Someone threw them into the river, and they took root there. In theory, they were supposed to freeze in winter, but it turned out: there are a lot of warm sewer drains, and piranhas are near them in the cold season, and in the summer they breed and devour everything. And our fish are not adapted to protect against these creatures. These are the same piranhas now appearing in art and politics. So, as they say, people, be vigilant. 04/10/2011 Recently, a friend of mine invited me to the opening of his furniture store in the center of Moscow. Could not go. And he was not at all surprised to meet his old acquaintance, the artist Safronov, there. M We met in the early 90s. My friends then opened a casino and held concerts there on Fridays to attract the public. The concert was followed by a buffet. The artist Safronov was a regular visitor to free receptions and parties (all over Moscow). An imposing man in an invariable black jacket attracted everyone's attention, despite a touch of some homeless and provincialism. The artist ingratiatingly presented booklets, postcards and other pieces of paper with reproductions of his works to those around him, and once he came with bottles of Safronovka vodka, where his face was on the label. True, he did not give vodka, he only showed it. Often he appeared with his friends, for example, the famous sorcerer Yuri Longo. Yura (who died so suddenly 5 years ago) was remembered as a very bright person, he amazed me with accurate prophecies, for which I (an arch-skeptic) have not found a sensible explanation to this day. I don’t remember which of Safronov’s friends called him Kolkas, Kolyas, and even Kolyaska, but I remember these playful names. So I will call him. Let's go back to the furniture store and in our time. Kolyas Safronov set up a projector and showed slides of his work on the back wall of an Italian wardrobe. My friend, a furniture maker, seeing my surprise, explained that Safronov promised to fit a rich audience, but he takes not at all expensive for his show. By the way, he asked me to write a review. I rashly promised. Time has passed, the promise must be kept, but not to write about the furniture store, so I decided to write about the work of Safronov's Carriage. First of all, I went to his official website, where I learned that “For many years, only one Russian painter has been able to achieve worldwide recognition”, “... an entry in the World Book of Knowledge about entering ... into the 100 best artists of the 20th-21st centuries seems like a meager addition to career success Russian painter, calmly working in various genres ... "and so on and so forth ... But amazingly, Yandex did not give a single one !!! links to the query "world book of knowledge". Yes, such an addition is much more miserable ... As for the “various genres” in which Kolkas “calmly” works, we can safely say that never (!), at any time and among any peoples, there has not yet been an artist who would worked in almost all conceivable and unimaginable genres. Safronov is the only one! Therefore, apparently, and "calm." On the same site, we read that “It will not be difficult to order and buy a painting by a master. A simplified system for accepting orders and performing work using photographs…”. Of course, as long as there are customers, why worry too much. Climbed another "runet". Conflicting information. For example, in an article (Komsomolskaya Pravda dated 04/08/2011) it is written: “Safronov quickly said that he remembers his Ulyanovsk childhood, ... He mentioned a Lithuanian mother, a Russian father, infidel blacks who are not Orthodox and not Catholics". And on Wikipedia we read: “Father - Safronov Stepan Grigorievich (Erzya by nationality). Mother - Safronova Anna Fedorovna, a native of the city of Panevezys. Do you remember something similar? “Mother is Russian, and father is a lawyer”? Some nonsense. And one more thing: all sites claim that Safronov was born in Ulyanovsk in 1956. And where did the "unfaithful blacks" in Ulyanovsk childhood come from then? Again a mystery. Therefore, I decided that it would be better to tell you three (three in total!) Authentic and reliable stories about the “only internationally recognized” Russian artist Safronov. History first. Becoming. They say that this ingenious scheme was told to Safronov by his friend Yuri Longo, who, in turn, read it from some old American author (most likely from O. Henry.). The first stage: you need to take photographs (for example, from magazines) of several famous people and paint their portraits. Any PTeU student (Safronov studied at the Rostov Art School from 1973 to 1975), even a C student, can easily do this. (The strongest education was in the USSR! Any dunce and mediocrity could be taught a trade). Then the finished portrait, for example, of the Queen of England should be sent directly to her, dear, to her main residence - to Buckingham Palace in Westminster. Finding the address is not a problem. They, the British, are known to be polite people and therefore they will definitely send you a response letter: “Thank you, they say, Kolyas for the portrait, etc.” In exactly the same way, you send portraits to the President of the United States, the President of Russia (this is more important!) And all sorts of Sophia Lorens and Allam Pugachevs. Let not all of them, but many of them will send back thank-you letters. So they, the cultured people accepted. The second stage: here you need to spend a little, but if you don’t invest money, you won’t earn. A personalized album with reproductions of these paintings-portraits is published. Under each picture is written, for example: “Portrait of the English Queen. Kept in the personal collection of the Queen of England. Hanging in the portrait gallery of the English kings at Buckingham Palace. Or: “Portrait of Roman Abramovich. It is kept in the personal collection of Roman Abramovich and is mandatory tattooed on the back (or below) of every Chelsea football player. And so on. The third stage: you need to show this album to potential customers, commenting on the pictures in the right discourse. Who is the potential customer for Safronov's portrait in contemporary Russia? Thieving official or criminal businessman, i.e. real "loh"! (The other one will not go to Kolyas). His education is at the appropriate level. Artists, except for Shishkin and Repin does not know. Yes, and he knows those from the cover of "Native Speech" for the first grade of the Soviet school. This sucker should be poked in the face with an album with a portrait of the English queen. Particularly incredulous, you can also show a real letter of thanks from the royal office (that's where it came in handy!) Show. Tell about the reception at Buckingham Palace, how the queen cried with happiness when she saw Safronov, how she threw kisses on his neck, etc. You need to explain to the client that he is no worse than the queen, which means he should have a portrait painted by Kolaskaya in his house on Rublyovka Safronov. The fact that the artist Safronov never even saw the English queen (as well as others whose portraits he painted) hopefully the client will never know. Price? Today it has already risen to 50 thousand dollars for a portrait “with handles” and up to 40 thousand “without handles”. “Handles” Kolyashkis calls human hands, which are just as difficult to write (the layout is the same) as the face. But real boys, the stump is clear, always order "with handles." Evil tongues claim that today Safronov’s portraits are painted by “negro artists” (maybe from Ulyanovsk childhood?), and not by himself. This is for the better - the quality of work has become higher. And the real "cool kid" should not work - just count the money. This primitive and ancient scam still works today. Go ahead and try young artists, however, it is absolutely not necessary to be an artist here. I wish you success! The second story. The flowering of creativity. This story was told in a large company (where I happened to be) Andrey Makarevich, the leader of the rock group Time Machine. Here is the story in brief: “The artist Safronov once called me (where did he just get the phone?) and said that he would come to my house right now (how did he find out the address?) and give me a portrait. A portrait painted by him, and in the portrait, as you understand, I am depicted. I answer that I do not need a portrait and ask him never to call me again. A few days later I leave the house, and he is already waiting for me at the gate. And the portrait, packed in thick paper, bothers me. Gift as a favorite singer. Well, you can’t offend a person, I took a portrait. Threw it immediately into the attic without unpacking. There he lies. I have never seen this portrait and do not want to see it. And, you friends, if you ever meet my portrait in Safronov’s album, then remember that I not only didn’t pose for Safronov, but I don’t really know him either. Well, in the form of an addition: I somehow meet my old friend, a well-known art critic, and he laughs: “My friend Alexander Sergeevich Sokolov (Minister of Culture of Russia) called me and asked what to do with his portrait, which is from the artist Safronov sent. I answer: never, Alexander Sergeevich, and do not tell anyone about this. This is not appropriate. In general, it is indecent to mention Safronov's name in public. He's not shaking hands. And destroy the portrait or hide it so that no one, God forbid, sees it. And then there will be a preconceived opinion about your artistic taste. And this, as the Minister of Culture, can hurt you a lot.” History the third. Liquidity. For 15 years now, in Moscow, in the Central House of Artists, the Russian Antique Salon has been held twice a year - the largest antique fair in Russia. At the opening of the salon, the usual get-together of interested persons gathers, which has already become an obligatory and traditional phenomenon of Moscow social life. A couple of years ago, at the opening of another salon, I was surprised to see a painting by Safronov in one of my gallery owners. The painting depicted a portrait of Christina Orbakaite. I asked a friend why he was selling a product that was completely inappropriate for the place. It's not an antique. The gallerist told me a story about how he bought, on occasion, a certain set of antiques. The seller sold only everything in its entirety, in bulk and attached this painting by Safronov to an antique pile. I had to buy. Today, Alla Pugacheva should be at the opening of the salon, - he told me, - So I hung the picture in the most prominent place. Suddenly his eyes lit up, - the Lord heard my prayers, - he whispered. I looked back. Incredibly, Alla Borisovna herself was approaching us with a regal tread, without taking her eyes off the portrait. I quote verbatim: How much daughter? Alla Borisovna smiled, - Do you want a piece? It does not matter how this story ended, it is important that never, at any of the major auctions, a single painting by Safronov was sold. Because they are absolutely not liquid! Regardless of the genre. No one can sell the work of Safronov, except for himself, of course. Maybe it's the current state of our country? Only scammers thrive. Pseudo-artists, pseudo-singers, pseudo-spies, pseudo-businessmen, pseudo-ministers and even pseudo … Similar contentCULTURE Mikhail Poplavsky: biography, creativity, career, personal life Mikhail Poplavsky biographyBorn November 28, 1949 1979 1971 -1975 1985 1990 1993 1994 ↓ Born November 28, 1949 in the village of Mechislavka, Ulyanovsk district, Kirovograd region. 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