Sergey Smirnov 2 (Russian, 1953-2006)

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Sergey Smirnov
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Absinthe Lover
Comet
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A couple
Spring Plays
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Babylon Games
Greek Motif
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Ambassador 2001
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Perl Necklace
Babylon Games
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Anastasia
Theatre
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Baroness
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Anastasia
Face
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Catherine the Great
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Two Bouquets
Arlekin
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Duke
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Temptation
Study
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Contessa
Sweet Serenity
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Pilgrims 1996
Symphony
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Emperor
Peter the Great, The Young Czar
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Peter the Great, Emporer
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Ophelia
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Flora 2001
Sad story
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Venice
Secret order
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Spaniard
Silence
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The sound of nigh
Mirage
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Golden Boy II
Golden Boy I
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Lolita
Golden girl
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Tenderness
Night Bird
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Heralds 2006
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Girl with Braids
Girl and Cat
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It is Hot
Ripened Grapes
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Natalia
Green Hat
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Roza at the Masquerade
Tapestry Hunting Scene
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Talk
Stranger
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Mild Afternoon
Summer
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Born in 1953, artist Sergey Smirnov grew up in an
area of Russia bordering the Pacific Ocean known
as the Kamchatka Peninsula. His father was an
army officer who moved his family from base to
base throughout Russia. In his late teen years,
Smirnov and his family settled in Moscow, where
he went to work for the Ministry of Agriculture.
In 1979, Sergey Smirnov began to take classes at
the Moscow City Art College. He graduated from
the art college in 1983. His remarkable skill in
church and cathedral renovation, led to a
prestigious position as a restorer of aging and
antique church icons and frescoes. He also served
as chief editor for the Advertising and Image
Creation Corporation of the Russian government's
International Trade Corporation. But in 1994 this
spirit moved him to devote himself entirely
to painting.
Sergey Smirnov's subjects look out from the
picture plane with serene and liquid eyes. Their
features are delicate, pale, and fine. They seem
pensive, or perhaps they simply remain aloof from
the comings and goings of the world around them.
In every case, their eyes dominate the canvas of
their face. If, indeed, the eyes are the windows
to the soul, then the souls Smirnov reveals are
deep and profound, and in their simplicity,
reminiscent of the haunting and beautiful images
found in old Russian church iconography. There is
something of the saints in Smirnov's art,
something of the world and its joys and sorrows
is in his eloquent and mute figures.
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Tchaikovsky
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Taking Stroll
Summer -Hat
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Summer Mood
Summer Day
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Sunrise
Summer Mood
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Rose II
Rose
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Ocean Sounds
Reverie
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Lovers above the Lake
Procession 2006
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Plays
Pretty Girl
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Masquerade
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Night Visitor
Lara
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Move of the Black Queen
Night Stroll
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Night Cocktail
Moon over the Hudson
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Sasha
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Perl Necklace II
Alina
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Marina
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Yana
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Manhattan Flowers
Mirages
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Little Fisherman 1996
Parade
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Madonna Lily
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Presentation Sanda Foisoreanu
2013
Sound Vocalise, Op.34 No.14 - Sergei
Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)