ARTIST KONSTANTIN ROMANOV

WATERCOLOR REALISM

Konstantin Romanov was born in the Arkhangelsk region. He graduated from the forest engineering faculty of Petrozavodsk state University. In the arts came, as was said in the beginning, after many years of working as an engineer in industry. In the Republic of Karelia his name sounded unexpectedly. In 1996, he stirred up the local art environment prize, which was awarded the unknown author of Karelia at the Biennale of watercolor painting in the Japanese city of Ohara. Constantine himself before participating in this event did not consider himself an artist, and his work could be counted on the fingers.

Konstantin Romanov joined the art after many years of industrial engineer. In such cases it should be – arts education he never had. The graphics in his life and the lessons it appeared in those 90-ые years, which was for the Russian art, a kind of test. The West has brought its" культурное" the trend, and many authors have plunged into it head first. Was born then we have a lot of post-modernists. However, many artists still prevailed in the Russian art the soil, not lost tradition. In their many entered and Konstantin Romanov. He took up graphics as an adult formed man. Quickly passed the student period and immediately identified myself the direction in watercolor realism.

Becoming popular, finding his circle of admirers, Constantine on the-прежнему lives in solitude with nature and yourself in the countryside. Who-то it will seem strange, abnormal, but it is typical for a person who has experienced severe than noisy nature of the Russian North. The fullness of the inner life of this man is visible in his watercolors.

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