Nikulin -- the painter of Blue Altai

The Spring Oil on Canvas, 108x94 cm

By the canvas "The Spring" you are in for a new discovery. Does spring have such colors? You will be distrustfully looking at the violet-pink bushes, tender-brown thin trunks of trees running up the slope of the hill. And suddenly you recall the spring when you walked down a boulevard under the same azure sky with snow-white clouds on it and adored an elegant picture of naked limbs of an old poplar. You thought about their wonderful plasticity. They were not stiff and fragile anymore! They shone like a pearl. This is the nice reminiscence revoked by Nikulins "The Spring" and you now look at it with gratitude, and it becomes clear why the painter surrounded the trees with 2 limpid colorful nimbi.

Plato was among those who supposed that admiration is peculiar to a philosopher's soul and it is the beginning of wisdom. At the exhibition you can see for yourself that Andrei Nikulin was able to admire. It is depicted in the landscapes of Gornyi Altai best of all.

Here is the painting "The View of Belukha". Eternal snow in the reign of blue horizons and sunny rocks, dead silence. There must be a painter somewhere near by. On a small piece of canvas he expressed the beating of his heart, the elation induced by mountain scope.

Translated by Ilia Icorevich Klyuk