Russian Jewish painter Arnold Lakhovsky
Born in the town of Chernobyl of Russian Empire, Aaron Berkovich Lakhovsky was a talented graphic artist, sculptor and painter. In 1902 he graduated from Odessa Art College, where he studied in the studio of K. Kostandi and G. Ladyzhensky. Then he worked in the work shop of Maro in the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In addition, he attended art classes of Slovene realist painter Anton Ažbe (30 May 1862 – 5 or 6 August 1905), and worked in Worms (German city).
In 1904 he came to St. Petersburg and entered the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts. He studied in the studio of Ilya Repin (1907). In 1908, Lakhovsky moved to Palestine for the summer holidays. Unfortunately, he fell ill, and spent a year in Jerusalem. As a result, for non-attendance of the St. Petersburg Higher Art School, by the Council decision of professors he was expelled from school.
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Colorful painting by Shor artist Lyubov Arbachakova
Born May 1, 1963 in the heart of Mountain Shoria, Kuzbass region of Russia, Lyubov Arbachakova is a renowned Shor painter, graphic artist and poet. A researcher of Shor heroic epic, she is a candidate of philological sciences, a member of the Union of Artists (2005) and the Union of Russian Writers (1997).
She grew up in a small Siberian village of Anzass (Kemerovo region) among amazingly beautiful and majestic mountain taiga.
According to art critics and viewers of her personal exhibitions, her paintings radiate some kind of extraordinary energy and heat. Bright and sunny, almost all of her pictures have a plot. As it turned out, they are like the parable in paint, an unheard vision and a sense of peace. Her paintings require from the viewer an intuitive and emotional empathy, because it is the world of intimate confessional thoughts and feelings painted on canvas.

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Yuri Arsenyuk exquisite floral still lifes

Well-known artist Yuri Arsenyuk has found his own way in art. In 1980s, new significant milestone for him became a study in the studio of Professor Ilya Glazunov, in Moscow State Art Institute of Surikov. Within its walls, and thanks to Ilya Glazunov, students learned the true classical school. There, the world famous artist gave them skills, great spirit of true art, and realism, which, like wings, help the artists fly. Thus, they focused on the great works of the Italian Renaissance, classic Russian and Western European art.
Climbing the stairs of excellence, he, while still a student, creates portraits, landscapes, and exquisite floral still lifes. Yuri Arsenyuk – a member of the International Federation of Artists of UNESCO (1994), and Professor of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. In addition, he is the head of art studio of Moscow State Academy of Surikov, created by Ilya Glazunov for the Study of Technology of the old masters of Europe and Russia.
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Siberian artist Albertina Fomchenko
Painter and theater artist, Albertina Fomchenko (01.23.1939, Leningrad – 28.01.2010, Novokuznetsk) graduated from Palekh Art School (1957-1962). Her Diploma work was a casket painted on the themes of Russian folk songs. In addition, she graduated from Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema (“painter and sculptor of Puppet Theater”) in (1971). The diploma work was the creation of sets and puppets for the play “Forest Song” by Lesya Ukrainka.
Albertina Fomchenko lived and worked in Novokuznetsk from 1975 to 2010. She began participating in exhibitions in 1986, and headed the school of lacquer miniature in the city of Novokuznetsk (1994-1995). She worked in folk art traditions. Many of her paintings include mythological Sirin bird, a symbol of national traditions, and a kind of her talisman.
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Russian artist Oleg Shtyhno
Oleg Fedorovich Shtyhno is the head of the department of anatomical drawing of the Faculty of Painting, professor of anatomical drawing and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Born in the south-eastern Siberia in 1961, his childhood memories keep many impressions from the village where he spent his summers and drew his first sketches.
The artist cherishes the memory of a place that no longer exists. Then the family left Novosibirsk for Omsk, where he studied in the art school. His path to the future profession was traditional: after school followed art college. Then, he became a student of the famous Moscow Art School in memory of 1905.
After graduation he worked in the Bolshoi Theatre workshops. It was a brief but important period in his life. The world of the theater with its own language of scenography was completely new to him, perhaps, gave him the first impulse towards the phasing out of the realistic likeness toward imaginative world. The following year he entered the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after VI Surikov. He was looking for his own pictorial language.
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Snow painting by Semyon Bukharin
Early in the morning, when school children are still sleeping, school janitor Semyon Bukharin takes a shovel and a broom and starts cleaning the school yard from the new-fallen snow. The result is impressive. The school yard of Izhevsk lyceum # 27 looks like an art gallery with a new art installation. A true artist, who has lived in Semyon since childhood, and his creative nature have made the process of snow cleaning an art. His thankful fans – students of the lyceum have created an account on Instagram where they share his creativity with the whole world. Creativity by Bukharin has made him an Instagram star. It’s a pity these beautiful paintings created on a fresh snow disappear in some hours. Semyon states that the drawings look best in the moonlight, when you can see the penumbra. From snow and ice Semyon also makes sculptures
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