Afanasy Kulikov fine art exhibition and contest finished in Kaluga

The official ceremony was held last Friday in the exhibition hall of Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts. For more than two weeks it had been the venue for an exhibition showcasing 72 artworks, some of them created by renowned artists such as Vladislav Sobinkov, Tatiana Duhanova, Viktor Strahov.

The exhibition and contest resulted in awarding 10 awards in the field of fine arts named after Afanasy Kulikov. It is awarded annually for special services in the field of fine arts in four nominations: painting, graphic art, plastic art, and applied and decorative arts.

Here’s what one of the nominees, member of the Union of Russian Artists Anatoly Moschelkov, told us:

«I entered the Union as a graphic artist because there is no separate section for calligraphy. Calligraphy is a segment of graphic art. I’m trying to find a compromise between a graphic element and a calligraphic letter, and there are few people who do this. It started for me in the 70ies when I worked in the department of industrial art. I saw my colleagues’ fine handwriting and I wanted to draw a letter according to all the rules. Thus I realized that fine handwriting and calligraphy are two different things. I graduated from Moscow Printing Institute. I was lucky to have such great teachers as May Petrovich Mityrin, Dmitry Spiridonovich Bisti, Andrey Vladimirovich Vasnetsov. This exhibition showcased my work titled «Shakespeare. Four Love Sonnets.»

Some of Anatoly Moschelkov’s works are part of the exposition of the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy.

Afanasy Kulikov fine art exhibition and contest finished in Kaluga

Source: www.vest-news.ru