article about the artist
Portrait of the artist Mikhail Vrubel, 2021
Nikita Alexeev is a talented young artist with a unique and intense inner view of the present, the subject and the human being.
Nikita was born in 1997 in Zhukovsky, a small town near Moscow. He was thrilled by painting from his early childhood. From 2005 to 2013 Nikita was studying drawing, painting and art crafts at the children art studio “Svetoten” (translated as chiaroscuro). In 2013 he entered the Moscow State college of design and applied arts named after Stroganov at the faculty of art-design.
After graduating from college in 2017, Nikita enters the Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Arts, Sculpture and Architecture at the faculty of painting. Studying in this prestigious Art Academy formed him as a painter, comprehending the best traditions of the russian realistic school, where the basic principles are: high mastery skill, strong drawing technique and profound knowledge of colour and tone laws. In terms of method, Nikita prefers oil painting.
The artist mostly works in the genre of portrait, creating paintings, that are fairly delicate by their inner psychological state and colouristic pallete. In these paintings, he primarily emphasizes on the most important common features, postures and gestures of the model, which allow to vividly expose the appearance and character of the person.
The valuable addition to the portrait is the landscape or the interior in which the person is immersed. It must be noted that Nikita is always finding new colouristic and compositional solutions for the sake of the more powerful artistic expression in every painting.
In his own free painting style, the artist created series of women portraits, revealing the beauty of the modern person. These portraits capture the feeling of the thrill of life, catching the viewers’ eye by the emotional impression of the model (“April”, “Waiting”, “Before the show”, “Pomor girl”).
Landscape plays an important role in Nikita’s art. In this genre, he usually creates paintings on pleinair in an impressionistic style, were the main subject is his impression of the nature, toned with various shades of feelings (“Afternoon on the Neva”, “View on the Plescheev lake”). Interested in his motherland nature, the artist tends to refer to Russian national motifs in his landscapes (“The Rostov hut”, “The Monastery”).
The poetic feeling of ordinary life combined with precise observation is common for Nikita’s paintings of genre scenes. On the All-Russian exhibition “Family – the soul of Russia” in 2020, the painting “Fathers rod” was awarded the first prize in category of “Art university students” and in 2021, in the same exhibition, the painting “I am 3 years old” won the third prize.
Nikita Alekseev participates in many prestigious art exhibitions. Currently he is teaching at the children art studio “Svetoten” in Zhukovsky and gives private lesson in academic painting and drawing.
Nikita was born in 1997 in Zhukovsky, a small town near Moscow. He was thrilled by painting from his early childhood. From 2005 to 2013 Nikita was studying drawing, painting and art crafts at the children art studio “Svetoten” (translated as chiaroscuro). In 2013 he entered the Moscow State college of design and applied arts named after Stroganov at the faculty of art-design.
After graduating from college in 2017, Nikita enters the Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Arts, Sculpture and Architecture at the faculty of painting. Studying in this prestigious Art Academy formed him as a painter, comprehending the best traditions of the russian realistic school, where the basic principles are: high mastery skill, strong drawing technique and profound knowledge of colour and tone laws. In terms of method, Nikita prefers oil painting.
The artist mostly works in the genre of portrait, creating paintings, that are fairly delicate by their inner psychological state and colouristic pallete. In these paintings, he primarily emphasizes on the most important common features, postures and gestures of the model, which allow to vividly expose the appearance and character of the person.
The valuable addition to the portrait is the landscape or the interior in which the person is immersed. It must be noted that Nikita is always finding new colouristic and compositional solutions for the sake of the more powerful artistic expression in every painting.
In his own free painting style, the artist created series of women portraits, revealing the beauty of the modern person. These portraits capture the feeling of the thrill of life, catching the viewers’ eye by the emotional impression of the model (“April”, “Waiting”, “Before the show”, “Pomor girl”).
Landscape plays an important role in Nikita’s art. In this genre, he usually creates paintings on pleinair in an impressionistic style, were the main subject is his impression of the nature, toned with various shades of feelings (“Afternoon on the Neva”, “View on the Plescheev lake”). Interested in his motherland nature, the artist tends to refer to Russian national motifs in his landscapes (“The Rostov hut”, “The Monastery”).
The poetic feeling of ordinary life combined with precise observation is common for Nikita’s paintings of genre scenes. On the All-Russian exhibition “Family – the soul of Russia” in 2020, the painting “Fathers rod” was awarded the first prize in category of “Art university students” and in 2021, in the same exhibition, the painting “I am 3 years old” won the third prize.
Nikita Alekseev participates in many prestigious art exhibitions. Currently he is teaching at the children art studio “Svetoten” in Zhukovsky and gives private lesson in academic painting and drawing.
Regina Hisamutdinova,
Art historian