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Pavel Belyayev
about the artist
Born in the village of Sushchevo, Kostroma Oblast, in 1955, Pavel graduated from the School of Visual and Graphic Arts of the Nikolai Nekrasov Kostroma State Pedagogical Institute. The artist passed away on 31 August 2015.
Belyayev explained his fascination with abstract art by his life-long desire to travel and inability to do so due to a number of reasons: rarely leaving his town, the artist treated the pictorial space as a metaphor for a journey, a chance to roam his inner landscape. Natural shapes and colours, distinctive outlines of figures, and the use of reverse perspective in his paintings suggest an affinity with the Russian icon painting tradition.
