A. Zinshtein - Jazz Pianist
Zinshtein Aaron was born in 1947 in Nizhny Tagil. Since childhood, the future artist studied drawing at the local House of Culture, then entered the famous art school of Nizhny Tagil. Not wanting to rest on our laurels, Zinshtein moved to Leningrad and entered the Higher Industrial Art School named after Mukhina. After graduating from college Zinshtein working in the studio of monumental and decorative art at the "Glavleningradstroe", which draws up the interiors of public buildings and institutions. Zinshtein already making sketches on which later will be created many of his works.
Aaron Zinshtein known not only as a talented painter, but also as a graph: in addition to hundreds of etchings and linocuts, artist designed many publications: books by Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, and Bulat Okudzhava were published with his illustrations. Zinshtein gouache, but as paintings, often reminiscent of children's drawings that the artist, by the way, collect, barter in small geniuses. They quite naturally look on the walls of his studio.
Zinshtein works in a pronounced expressive manner. In his works there is always movement, vitality, irony. His joyful mood expressionism Zinshtein different from American or German Expressionism. The artist writes with almost no life. He makes numerous sketches, assembles them into albums, and only then, in the workshop recreates them in color on canvas or paper. Zinshtein takes the most diverse and most simple plots, which prompts him to life itself. These are the people hurrying through the streets of the city, riding the subway. In the works of the 1980s felt passion for the city and sports festivals and circuses: parades, fireworks, football. The artist notices a lot of people have specific postures and movements, and yet comprehends the crowd as a single plastic unit.
Aaron Zinshtein always stayed away from all the possible "left" and "right" movement in art. It was not adopted any official Soviet art, or in a medium non-conformist artists. In art, he appreciates the spontaneity and freedom. "I'm a naive artist, I can picture everything," says Zinshtein.
A. Jazz pianist, 1998. oil /canvas, 95 x 150 cm
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