Andrey

Art Types involved-in: Oil Painting

Andrey Biography:

Andrey Grintsevich was born in 1956 in Ulyanovsk within a modest family of a retired military man. His four elder brothers and a younger sister were his dearest childhood companions which Andrey remained affected to throughout his entire life, despite its most challenging times. 

During his school studies he became interested in drawing, making copies of book illustrations and reproductions, elaborating his own romantic style and expressing in this way his dreams about travels and adventures. He never thought about making art his life’s work at that time, and after graduation he entered the Odessa Nautical School.

However, the future artist quickly realized that fine art opens up much more opportunities for him. He left his studies, completed compulsory military service at the rocket troops and moved to his mother’s hometown Panevėžys in Lithuania where he worked as a theatre designer, and then to Vilnius where he started his professional studies and career as an artist.

Later on Andrey graduated from Surikov Institute and since then has been staying permanently in Moscow. Since 1973 he has been actively painting, exhibiting and selling his works, and starting from his first personal exhibition in Panevėžys in 1978 he became famous as a prominent surrealist, portraitist and experimenter.

In his continuous search of self-perfection, Andrey traveled a lot, studying technics of great masters of the past in the museums and collections worldwide, seeing cultural masterpieces. His active lifestyle and wide personal network made his personality as attractive and popular as his art. A large number of personal exhibitions and active purchases of his works by public museums all over the world created for him an extensive clients base and army of admirers.

Andrey hbecame remarkably famous with his series of psychological portraits of contemporaries, which are undoubtedly recognized as currently the highest achievements in this genre. However, he never abandoned his aspirations of painting from imagination, no matter how successful and demanded were his portraitist activity. After in-depth professional and cultural investigations Andrey summarized his ideas and created his own movement called Dream Vision which is technically based on the classic painting and uses not only imagination and intuition but also subconsciousness and unconscious sensations. Due to the extensive cultural context the Dream Vision paintings became popular in various countries and social classes.

Professionalism and richness of Andrey Grintsevich art and his exclusive individual manner are recognized as undoubted contribution to the world’s art, confirmed by various titles and awards; his professional and personal life served as a basis of novels and movies, whilst his charitable and educational activities received high recognition.

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For his achievements in the fine art Andrey Grintsevich is honored with the following titles:

• Honored Artist of Russia;
• Member of the Russian Academy of Arts;
• Professor of Ulyanovsk State University;
• Honorary citizen of Ulyanovsk;
• Honorary citizen of Russia;
• Honorary Member of Ukrainian Academy of Arts;
• Honorary Member of Kazakh National Academy of Arts named after T. Zhurgenov.

Graduation School: MGU

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