Igor Samsonov is a contemporary painter born in

Voronezh, Russia Voronezh ( rus, links=no, Воро́неж, p=vɐˈronʲɪʂ}) is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located from where it flows into the Don River (Russia), Don River. ...

, on January 7, 1963 his paintings have been in exhibitions in Russia, Europe, and the U.S. He is known to have his own modern take on

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while also being influenced by

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, and

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artists.

Career

Samsonov initially decided on a career in mathematics and earned the equivalent of a Master's degree from Voronezh State University. He accepted a job with the Institute of Research but found himself more and more drawn back to art, especially after viewing some of Van Gogh's paintings at the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). In 1990 Samsonov moved to Leningrad, where he studied at the Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and was a student of

Oleg Eremeev Oleg Arcadievich Eremeev (russian: Олег Аркадьевич Еремеев; 28 September 1922 – 16 March 2016) was a Soviet Russian painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, a full member of the Academy of Arts of the Russian ...

. He graduated from Repin in 1997, with a degree considered comparable to Doctorate of Fine Art under the Soviet system. A

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of Samsonov's work titled ''Igor Samsonov: Painter and Passionate Visionary'' was written and published by American author David Salomon in 2014.

External links

* https://igorsamsonov.com/

References

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