Subway station Vasileostrovskaya. St.Petersburg

HYPERREALISM / FIGURATIVE COMPOSITIONS
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A sheet was prepared in January 1984 in the technique of watercolor and gouache painting with significant use of airbrush. Stark monochrome palette of restraint, cold, artificial light is akin to the underground cadres of military newsreels. This piece was a left part of polyptych with "Moika, 12" (detail of the monument to Pushkin in a snowy yard of his last apartment - http://artnow.ru/en/gallery/3/4414/picture/9/208304.html).
The work has been presented as a course project by the academic discipline "Painting Composition" of the Department of Fine Arts (Moscow State pedagogical university). Professor Andrei Unkovsky, faithful in his work of traditions of Russian impressionism, angrily asked: "Is this a poster?"