30.07.2024

Frolov-Bagreev Alexey

Graduated from the Moscow Art School of Applied Arts at mghpa im Stroganov; Moscow Polytechnic (graphic artist). I am engaged in easel painting. Trained in the studio Irina Zatulovskaya. Participated in exhibitions of the Union of Artists of Russia, the Moscow Union of Artists, joint creative exhibitions.

His works are held by private collectors.

“What is most interesting in painting is painting. The aspirations in creativity may seem purely technical - to paint a picture harmonious in composition, to achieve a color sound. But in fact it is the very deep and meaningful process of creation, the birth of painting. Painting already exists, all around, everywhere. It is only necessary to bring to clarity what is at hand. To try to create, to bring out the sound-color in the material.

For me, painting is not a means of presenting any ideas, it is a touch to the fundamentals of life. And that is its unshakable value; always a causeless love.

The feeling of joy and meaning arises when something seems to have turned out, when something is lit up with colors on the surface. Any surface: canvas, cardboard, wood, a piece of stone...most often, I like to paint on materials that have already lived. Or not as neat and clean as a white canvas. Slightly torn plywood or “modest” cardboard is closer to life and to painting. It happens that something delicate, such as a flower, is easier to depict on a rough surface. The soul experiences beauty, often through pain or unsightliness.

The theme of flowers growing from the bottom edge of the “canvas” has become one of the central themes for me. It is as if the flower concentrates many meanings and different images relating to the most important moments of life.

Still life is always a pleasant subject. A pleasant opportunity to “communicate” with different forms and favorite objects, although here too, for me, the object, that is, matter, gives way to a sense of color. In still life paintings I always intuitively choose to paint subjects whose form and essence is simple and comprehensive. For example, a bowl or bread. Or a glass. Or, of course, an apple, as one Great Artist of the past had it....

I often turn to the subject of abstraction. But abstract painting is not something separate from other genres. There is a common thread of painting in everything for me, landscape, portraits and abstraction. Whatever subject I paint, it is the desire for light that is important. It is an inner process, a struggle, and sometimes its complete absence.

What does an artist want from his work? I would like the human viewer to be filled with the energy of light and purity when looking at my works.”

Alexey Frolov-Bagreev, artist