Alexandr Guristyuk

Alexandr Guristyuk is a Ukrainian painter.

Biography

He was born on June 2, 1959 year in village Yaroshivka, Chernigov area on Ukraine in a family of the military. He studied at art school two years. Then he has been expelled for bad behaviour.

The artist works in art workshops at the Rovno organisation of the National union of artists of Ukraine since 1989.

He was the participant of regional and national art exhibitions (from 1990). Personal exhibitions - in Rivne (1990, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007), Lutsk (1996, 1998), Kiev (2000, 2001, 2006), Lvov (2003), Lublin (Poland, 2004), Preshov, (Slovakia, 2006). The participant of 2nd International art open-air which was devoted to the Day of Preshov city, Slovakia (on May, 28th - on June, 9th, 2006).

Creativity

Alekzander Guristyuk has the creative arsenal of about 500 different-genre and differently-styled pictures. In most recent years, Alexander worked in a nativity style. Amongst his paintings, many are of female portraits.

Genres: still-life, portrait, landscape, genre composition.

In 1980 A.Guristyuk revolted against the system and "social circus" that is displayed in pictures "Head of the Set," "Members of the Rovno Party," "Night," "New Year's Hours," and "Feast." At the end of the 1990s, the artist painted on ethnic and religion themes. He has worked in these styles to this day.

Realness and meticulousness of style were transformed at the present stage on the overall picturesque reception with the underlined incompleteness of details. The artist formulates conceptual basis of the creativity, briefly on "Soul and Color." Plastic solution in style a primitive, an impressive surface of cloths, bright color, dramatic nature and grotesqueness of the images. Here resources with which the artist tries to formulate and solve one of the major problems of the his creativity - The "Magic Mystery" of each moment of reality.

The main series: "Polissya", "Fables", "Christ".

The main pictures:

Guristyuk's pictures are in private collections in the following countries - Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Portugal, Israel, Australia, and the United States of America.

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