Sergey Teplyakov - the magician of brushes and paints

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Still life mastery is perhaps one of the most difficult areas in the fine arts. And it is he who is perfectly mastered by the Russian artist Teplyakov Sergey Vitalievich, who devoted many years to revealing the secret of creating the perfect image of fruits, vegetables and various objects. In his paintings, one can also notice people, and scenes from everyday life, and historical events. However, according to Teplyakov himself, he likes to draw nature, landscapes and objects most of all, since the vocation of a real artist is to be able to see the moving and alive in the still, to be able to convey the soul of an object and reveal its history on canvas.

Biography

The world-famous brush master Sergei Teplyakov was born in Moscow into an intelligent family of an architect and a pianist. Little Seryozha spent all his childhood in an atmosphere of art, which was facilitated by constant music lessons with his mother and painting with his grandfather, Mikhail Taraev, an artist known throughout the Soviet Union. Grandfather, who at one time received the Ilya Repin Prize and the title of "People's Artist of the USSR", immediatelysaw the boy's innate talent for painting and insisted that Sergei Teplyakov be sent to the Stroganov Art Academy.

Teplyakov was admitted to a course of classical painting, where the young man studied the styles and techniques of depicting people, objects and states of various substances for several years, and also actively experimented with artistic materials, mastering paints, crayons, and tempera.

The choice of Sergei Teplyakov's style was influenced by long conversations with his grandfather, as well as with creative people who visited his parents' house. The Teplyakovs' apartment constantly became a meeting place for the artistic and literary elite of that time, which, of course, formed Sergei's excellent taste.

In 1998, Teplyakov was admitted to the Union of Artists of Russia.

Creative career

The paintings of the artist Sergei Teplyakov are of high quality and amazing realism, but the master was in no hurry to present his work to the public for a long time. For many years Sergey worked in the studio, improving his style and showing his works only to the closest people, but later, at the insistence of his family and the recommendations of friends, he nevertheless began to take the most successful paintings to various shows, art festivals and exhibitions.

Teplyakov's artistic style combines the techniques of traditional classical painting and unique author's methods of depicting the surrounding reality. In conjunction withvirtuoso writing technique, it gives a stunning effect.

In each of his works, the master acts not only as an artist, but also becomes a director, competently building the "frame" of the picture, adjusting the lighting and aligning the arrangement of objects, thereby achieving the most impressive effect.

Exhibitions

Since the end of the nineties of the last century, the artist has been actively participating in almost all major exhibitions and fairs dedicated to contemporary fine art. A real master, according to Teplyakov, always finds joy in the fact that he can share his work with people, get positive and negative emotions from their reaction. This is what makes the master of painting improve and continue to work.

The organizers of exhibitions are happy to cooperate with the artist, as the paintings by Sergei Teplyakov are a kind of indicator of the level of the event, its prestige. If the works of Sergei Vitalievich are exhibited at the fine art fair, then it can be said with confidence that experts from all over the world, as well as eminent and experienced collectors of Russian and world art, will come to it.

Reviews

Experts in the field of art are always happy to give rave reviews about the work of our compatriot, noting the magnificent style of work, careful attitude to the depicted objects, perfect color balance and filigree work with form. Many galleries purchase worksSergei Teplyakov. Also, the artist's paintings are in great demand among serious Russian and foreign collectors. The cost of the master's work is usually not disclosed, but one can suspect that each painting is quite expensive.