From the site of the Russian Academy of Arts
------------------------------------------
Born on 13.06.1955, in Kostroma.
Lives and works in Yaroslavl.
A painter, restorer, sculptor.
In 1974 he graduated from the Yaroslavl Art School.
In 1992 - Diploma of Arts of the USSR for the painting "Theatre AF Volkov" (1990).
In 1994 - the Order of St. Luke for a list Vvedensky cathedral Tolga Monastery (1992).
In 1997 - the Patriarch Diploma "For zeal for the good of the Holy Orthodox Church."
The outstanding master of monumental painting of the church.
Among his main works of painting: the Orthodox Church in the "Russian village" (Niigata, Japan, 1994), Orthodox chapel in the palace site of Anton La Valetta (Malta, 1996), paintings and the iconostasis of the church of St. Gregory of Nice-tion in the U.S. (Columbus, Ohio, 1997), pictorial cycles: "Adam and Eve" (1993-1997), "Angels" (1995-1996), a sculptural composition "Trinity" (1995, Yaroslavl, with the participation of I. Treyvusa, E. Paskhina , A. Bobovichi). Ra-bot on projects and murals on the Reconstructed Temple of Christ the Savior in Moscow (1997-1999).
Founder and Head of School (1993) and the Foundation "Yaroslavl icon.
Corresponding member of PAX (1997). Honored Artist of Russia (1999). Member of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Arts (1999, full member of Arts (2001).
Читать дальше...
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.
http://www.rah.ru/content/ru/main_me...-22-19-32.html