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| * * * The end of the XX century and onset of the XXI century is a complicated historical epoch giving birth to new artistic trends, tendencies, values. Creative work of the Moscow painter Vassily Nesterenko is inseparable from his time. He belongs to one of those masters who are to bring national art into a new millennium. Excellent academic training, deep perception of the present, rare diligence helped V.Nesterenko 'burst' into national artistic life. He is fast in attaining independence, achieving maturity of style and gaining recognition. He is noted for high creative abilities: among his works one can see portraits, landscapes, large-size historical canvases, compositions on religious themes. Artistic comprehension of changes in the society's spiritual life and transformation of the social attitude are embodied in a cycle of pictures devoted to trips to sacred places, in icon-painting, in making portraits of Alexius II, Patriarch of Moscow and the whole of Russia; Diodoros, Patriarch of Jerusalem; other ecclesiastics. The main theme of his historical canvases is the assertion of a person and individual active creative basis. In his work, Nesterenko often turns to the epoch of Peter the Great and enriches pictorial art various historical subjects, e.g. The Triumph of the Russian Fleet or Moscow greets the Heroes of Poltava. The artistic method of V.Nesterenko the portraitist is based on a comprehensive study of a human being's nature. His portraits are remarkable for acuteness in conveying a character. The painter discloses people's spiritual values with a special warmth. In female portraits he acts as a subtle lyrist creating bright harmonic images. Landscape occupies a prominent place in V.Nesterenko's works. The image of nature sounds in a set of historical canvases, in portraiture and is fully disclosed in landscapes. V.Nesterenko travels a lot around Russia and never puts aside a painter's case in trips over Europe and America. V.Nesterenko's participation in recreating a pictorial attire of the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was his real success. That very complicated work required not only highest skills but also an ability to act in a manner typical of great painters of the XIX-th century. Multi-character evangelist topics The Entrance of Our Lord into Jerusalem, The Resurrection, Apostle Matthew, Epiphany embodied by V.Nesterenko are located in the central, most important part of Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. A prominent facet of the painter's activity is his work in the Patriarchal refectory of Christ the Savior Cathedral. With the Patriarch's blessing, V.Nesterenko is embodying five evangelistic themes, namely: The Last Supper, Marriage in Cana of Galilee, Wonder feeding, Wonder haul, Christ and Samarian woman. A real success was V.Nesterenko's picture The Last Supper where the author showed himself as a painter of deep comprehension of complexity and everlasting value of evangelistic themes, this picture occupied the central part of the Patriarchal refectory in Christ the Savior Cathedral. Creative work of Vassily Nesterenko, Merited Artist of the Russian Federation, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, is invariably in the focus of attention of multiple viewers. One can see his pictures in museums and at major home and foreign exhibitions. He is an industrious person, full of ideas, and new canvases regularly appear in his art studio. Academician
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