Why did I, a successful avanguard painting artist, went into classical painting with all my passion and zeal fifteen years ago? Because visiting museums I suddenly realized that artists who lived in the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th centuries did not differ from me much and they were even more deprived than me: they did not have television, computers, cameras... But somehow they were able to create magnificent canvases and I (we) could not?!

Classical Still life Painting Gallery. I understood that at some stage late in the 19th early in the 20th century, at the time of numerous revolutions, the continuity of the classical school was severed, and now it is my responsibility to recreate and disseminate, to the best of my ability, the laws of classical painting. I have taken a motto: "No more eating plastic food on plastic plates, painting plastic pictures, and listening to plastic music!"

Classical Portrait Painting Gallery. There is a tremendous difference between classical and realistic painting. Unfortunately, Internet does not favor the term "classical." When I use "classical" as a search word, as a result I get information on classical music, classical writers, and some deceased artists. With regard to paintings, typical Internet phrases are "realistic painting," "realism," "figurative painting" (meaning that realistic outlines may be sensed there). That is why if, from time to time, I use the terms "realism" and "figurativism," it is only for people to have an opportunity to find my pages, and not because I mix them up with "classical."

   What kind of differences are there between the classical and the realistic painting?
1) Figuratively, the classical picture is music based on notation; the realistic Painting is music without notation knowledge.
2)Technique. Everything in the classical Painting is done stage by stage in accordance with laws which were not invented by the author. This gives a student an opportunity to return to the previous well dried layer any time.
   The realistic Painting is made in one layer, "alla prima." There can be several layers but only because the author does not have time to finish the picture "in the wet".
    That is why it is very difficult to learn anything in the realistic school: in case of a failure, the student returns to the white canvas and has to start from scratch.
3) Plot. In the classical Painting the plot is constructed in accordance with the classical composition laws. The realistic Painting school does borrow something from the classical school but there is no composition laws as such: there are as many laws as there are realistic artists.