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[Рябов Михаил]

... Indeed, Sergei Fedotov has absolutely individual author manner. With no formal art education, and not religiously shtudiruya famous examples, he could not so much rational as intuitive, intellectually master the techniques of plastic solutions that give us in different periods of the twentieth century such famous artists as Emil Nolde, Chaim Soutine, Jean Dubuffet and more Many other ...
... Generally speaking, our artist willingly - when deliberately and sometimes more internally - "dialogiruet" with its predecessors distant and not so distant past. This occurs when, for example, he wrote his many "nude" or, on the contrary - still lifes. Among these latter vydelyutsya with harvested fish or wounded ducks (here you can remember about these red-blooded still lives at Flemings, for example, the Snyders, or the special "vitality", "dead nature" at an early Larionov), or various meat carcasses, which vividly remind these bright and pasty things of the same Chaim Soutine ...

author: Andrei Tolstoy (Doctor of Arts, member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts).
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