Nikolai Mukhin over the past thirty years or so. "Art" painting "- is an exact science, like mathematics or physics, requiring over a" heroic "efforts and knowledge of the history of the object. Craft work enough over the years, but it is not the main thing, above all, in my opinion - is "Your" perception of the world with all its joys and troubles "- the artist thinks.

Throughout his career, Nikolai Mukhin turns to ancient Russian art, perceiving it as a great cultural and spiritual formation, keeping the answers to important cultural issues of our day. The artist has managed to transform the iconic experience of his predecessors in the thoughts and ideas of his time, creating a unique "bezvremennóy" world of painting, which is a definite interest.

Three titles - "Anatomy of a painting. Bible for "illiterate". Fragments of Life, so the author has defined all that is done over the past thirty years. Painting - is not only the plot, but the surface glaze, rhythm, color. Expanding it into pieces and bringing them to the "pixel", the artist shows the endless possibilities of creating a "work of art." It is a kind and have a Bible for "illiterate", because not every viewer, even sophisticated, so looked in painting ". Presents - fragments of life of the author.

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"Response to Art" (art - the ability)

... Like most modern thinking, looking for artists, Nikolai Mukhin contradictory, ambiguous, uneven. He is caught between enduring human values of the past and a mass of ugliness in the present; tries to comprehend the truly monstrous explosion of sensuality, without spirituality, evil, oppression of the civilized world, claiming allegiance to Christianity. In his art fighting light and darkness, spirit and flesh - how painful they fight in reality. ... What an objective and certainly not in the works Mukhina, so it is a lie, sanctimonious hypocrisy, alas, not bypassed our "orthodox" art.

Maria Chegodaeva (Academician of Arts, Doctor of Arts).
From the book "My academics"
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Date: July 13 - August 22, 2010
Address: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Russian Academy of Arts, Gogol Boulevard, 10

creative originality Nikolai Alexandrovich Mukhina is its special relationship to the traditions and history of art past and present. On the one hand, his works have a creative experience inspiring master the art of Yaroslavl XVII century., On the other - Mukhin tends to search for characteristic of modern art.
 Freedom and the temperament of the artist's paintings in the church are constrained outside the canon, tradition and spiritual challenges. Here his imagination is satisfied compositional finds nuances of form and color. However, in almost every work he manages to embody their own ideas: in the original organization of art space, the new ratios scale and proportions of figures, a special interaction between ornamentation and architectural forms. Jobs at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior nominated master of the leading artists.
 
Paintings Nikolay Mukhin differently characterizes the talent of the master. His paintings are born at the junction of spiritual and material world, is deeply symbolic of the Christian and secular art of sign of the twentieth century. This dual evident in the plots, and in the plastic solution, when the picture associated with the icons, frescoes, but at the same time there is to be entirely certain searches avant-garde art. Man, the main character of his work, always poised on the brink of the myth and reality, between good and evil, harmony and chaos - a state that reflects and spiritual pursuits of religious consciousness, and the existential experience of philosophical mind.
 Sculptural compositions became the embodiment of Christian thought and intellectual pursuit. The most material genre of fine arts allowed to express this complex integrity. Mukhin again creates on the verge of intellectual and spiritual, was able to find a measure of bodily images of the Spirit and thoughts.
 Courage Plastic searches easel works of Nikolai Mukhin, the opposite of the classical academic painting, make the master representative updated the Russian Academy of Arts. The respect and respect for traditions, spiritual orientation, based on which the master builds his art system, suggest it is also heir to the best of ancient traditions of the Academy.

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creative originality Nikolai Alexandrovich Mukhina is its special relationship to the traditions and history of art past and present. On the one hand, his works have a creative experience inspiring master the art of Yaroslavl XVII century., On the other - Mukhin tends to search for characteristic of modern art.
 Freedom and the temperament of the artist's paintings in the church are constrained outside the canon, tradition and spiritual challenges. Here his imagination is satisfied compositional finds nuances of form and color. However, in almost every work he manages to embody their ideas: the peculiar institutions of art space, the new poverty ratios and proportions of figures, a special interaction between ornamentation and architectural forms. Jobs at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior has put forward a wizard in a number of leading artists.
 
Paintings Nikolay Mukhin differently characterizes the talent of the master. His paintings are born at the turn of the spiritual and the material world, is deeply symbolic of the Christian and the sign of secular art of the twentieth century. This dual evident in the plots, and in plastic solution, when the picture associated with the icons, frescoes, but at the same time have to be entirely certain searches avant-garde art. Man, the main character of his work, always poised on the brink of myth and reality, between good and evil, harmony and chaos - a state that reflects the search for religious and spiritual consciousness, and the existential experience of philosophical mind.
 Sculptural compositions became the embodiment of Christian thought and intellectual pursuit. The most material genre of fine arts allowed to express this complex integrity. Mukhin again creates on the verge of intellectual and spiritual, was able to find a measure of bodily images of the Spirit and thoughts.
 Courage plastic easel searches of Mykola Mukhina, the opposite of the classical academic painting, make the master representative updated the Russian Academy of Arts. The respect and respect for the traditions of spiritual orientation, based on which the master builds his art system, suggest it is also heir to the best of ancient traditions of the Academy of.

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