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Semyon Faibisovich
"Artist Leonid Sokov in New York"
1989
Oil on canvas
135x200

The painting “Artist Leonid Sokov in New York” was created during Faibisovich's stay in USA. Here the artist moves away from his customary visual system. The pictorial space imitates the negative of a colored film with the portrait of Sokov. Lights of the big city, blurred with motion, are flickering in the background. This work is a single frame of the present-day city life, the fixation of the epoch and its hero.

Vladimir Prokhorov

Semyon Faybisovich is close to the recusant circle. In 70-s he started to exibit in graphics “Gorkom” on Malaya Gruzinskaya street. At the same time he worked in the factory, producing monumental decoratives, thereby he had to deal with official line. This experience let Faybisovich to concentrate on the social aspect of art. Painter now treated by rights as one of the leading members of photorealistic movement.

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Semyon Faibosovich
1949
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Semyon Faybisovich is close to the recusant circle. In 70-s he started to exibit in graphics “Gorkom” on Malaya Gruzinskaya street. At the same time he worked in the factory, producing monumental decoratives, thereby he had to deal with official line. This experience let Faybisovich to concentrate on the social aspect of art. Painter now treated by rights as one of the leading members of photorealistic movement.

He found that the fragment, that was torn straight out of reality, works stronger than any metaphor or fantasy in social context. Soviet grayish daily life, displayed in oil on canvas (as the «official» soviet art), reflected the static atmosphere of late-soviet time. Almost in every work Faybisovich concentrating on person itself, on the game between individual and typical. That is all the same investigation of “homo soveticus”, common for nonconformists.

Vladimir Prokhorov

 

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