Anatoliy Zaslavsky

Anatoliy Zaslavsky was born in Kiev in 1939. In 1965, he graduated from the Mural Painting Department of the Leningrad Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design.

Anatoliy Zaslavsky is perhaps the most well-known St. Petersburg-based expressionist painter. He is part of the Desperate Painters artistic collective together with Boris Borshch, Irina Vasilyeva, Arthur Molev, Yulia Sopina, Vladimir Yashke, Georgy Mudryonov, Alexander Rumyantsev, and some other artists. Zaslavsky is peerless when it comes to colour. In his works the medium of painting comes alive in its intuitive and emotional quality and delicacy of feeling. One of the biggest names in the St. Petersburg art scene, Zaslavsky has left a mark on an entire generation of artists, all the while treating his painting practice as a deeply private means of self-cultivation and world cognition.