Vitally GRIGORYEV
1957, Moldova, Republic of/Russia

Vitali Grigoryev was born in 1957 in Kishenev, Moldavia, in the family of an artist. He expressed interest in drawing when he was 5 years old, and his father was the first art instructor. In 1972 Vitali enters the Art College in Kishenev, Moldavia. In 1976 he graduated with honors and enters the St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) Repin Art Academy, which he graduated from, again with honors, in 1983. While he was still a student at the Academy, he participated in all the major Soviet Union exhibitions. He won many of the art competitions. His works are in permanent collections of such museums as the Museum of Academy Arts (St. Petersburg, Russia); State Museum of Art (Kiev, Ukraine); State Museum of Art (Kishenev, Republic of Moldavia). He held solo exhibitions in Germany, France, Holland, Hungary, and the United States, which received a warm welcome not only from the public, but from the press as well. Vitali Grigoryev calls his art "nostalgic realism." It usually takes him one to three years to create a single painting. He does not mix colors before he paints, rather he achieves the desired color by applying multiple of thin layers of glaze. Vitali pays very close attention to the canvas; it may take him up to five years to get the canvas primed and ready to be painted on. Every finished painting is a true testament of all the hard work.

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