Nikolai Vasilievich Kuzmin

Nikolai Vasilievich Kuzmin (Russian: Николай Васильевич Кузьмин) is a Russian painter born in 1938 in Talynskoye, Vachsky District, not far from the town of Nizhny Novgorod. After studying in the Art College of Pavlovo-na-Oke, close to his home village Talynskoye, he entered the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry[1] and became an alumni in 1970. In 1991 he entered the Artists' Union of the USSR, which became in 1992 the Union of Russian Artists.

Nikolai Kuzmin,
Nikolai Vasilievich Kuzmin
Николай Кузьмин,
Николай Васильевич Кузьмин
Born1938
Talynskoye, Vachsky District, Gorky Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
EducationStroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry
Known forPainting
Websitehttp://kuzmin.eu

Nikolai Kuzmin likes painting the architecture of his home town Moscow.[2]

The painter has travelled and painted widely in Western Europe [3][4] and organised some exhibitions there, notably in France.[5][6][7][8][9]

In France the artist's exhibitions take place in galleries, museums [10] and annual exhibitions organised in common by artists, such as Art Capital or Souvenir de Corot in Paris and its neighbourhood.

Nikolai Kuzmin's painting is not far from expressionism and fauvism.[11]

The painter's work has been strongly influenced by the remembrance of his childhood.[12]

Nikolai Kuzmin's favourite painting technique is oil on canvas with spatula.[13] However the artist has also been participating for many years in the Watercolour and Drawing Annual Exhibition in Grand Palais, Paris, France.

In France artist's paintings are available in the Matthieu Dubuc gallery in Rueil-Malmaison, in the vicinity of Paris-La Défense.[14][15][16]

Nikolai Kuzmin also has regular exhibitions in Russia, notably with the Moscow Union of artists, of which he is a member.[17]

The themes covered by Nikolai Kuzmin's paintings are varied:[18][19]

  • Garden-spring-blooming
  • Artwork on paper / On the road to Murom-the Farewell
  • Abstract oil artwork / Interlacing of roads
  • Portrait
  • After the war
  • Travel:
○ Paris Region:
- Ponds of Corot
- Forest of Fausses Repose
- Versailles-Viroflay
- Around Paris
- Paris
○ French Province:
- Mediterranean
- Corsica
- Sainte-Victoire-Mountain
- The Alps
- Brittany
- Normandy
- Other French regions
○ Croatia
○ Crimea
  • Native soil
  • At the dacha
  • Architecture:
○ Moscow
○ Russia
○ Europe
  • Landscape:
○ Russian landscape
○ Russian winter landscape
○ Europe
  • Religious, popular and mythological:
○ Religious
○ Popular
○ Mythological
  • Still life and Flowers:
○ Still life
○ Flowers
  • Other themes

References
  1. Vechernyaya Moskva (Moscow Evening Newspaper) on Saturday 17 May 1997, an article by Evgeny Nekrasov, picture by Alexander Abaza.
  2. Where Moscow magazine, in September - October 1997, an article by I. Petchkin, Editor of the « Moscovite Artist » journal
  3. Yunyi Khudozhnik (Young Artist magazine), 1997, Nikolai Kuzmin recounts his travels to Denmark and England
  4. The Moscow Times, summer 1998, an article by Matthew Burger
  5. Le Figaro, on 6 November 2006, an article by Armelle Héliot
  6. Nice Matin, 7 April 2007
  7. La Tribune le Progrès, 22 August 2006 – 28 August 2007 - by Pierre-Henri Paulet.
  8. Monthly magazine of the town of Versailles, November 2006 and October 2009
  9. Les Nouvelles de Versailles, 22 November 2006 and 7 October 2009
  10. Le Progrès, Lyons, 2 March 2010 by Marie-Pierre Souchon
  11. Universe of the Arts magazine (Univers des Arts), October 2006, by Patrice de la Perrière, editor in chief
  12. Universe of the Arts magazine (Univers des Arts), October November 2011, by Thibault Josset
  13. Artistes Magazine, Éditions du Grand palais, October 2012, by Valérie Auriel
  14. (in French) Nikolai Kuzmin's paintings in Jacques Baumel multimedia library and Maison des Muses gallery (Matthieu Dubuc gallery)
  15. (in French) Page about Nikolai Kuzmin on the web site of Matthieu Dubuc gallery
  16. Nikolai Kuzmin's exhibitions in Matthieu Dubuc gallery
  17. News from the Moscow Union of artists, 2018, #3-4, 'World of painting' (another newspaper from the Moscow Union of artists), March-April 2018, #3-4
  18. by the art critic Nina Gordeyeva (Mikhaylova) about Kuzmin's painting and what influenced it
  19. by Henri Pailler, curator of the museum of Allard, Montbrison, France, February 2010

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