About the artist
Evgeny Medvedev (b. 1994, Oryol) is an artist, graduate of the Imperial Academy of Arts, and a master of drawing from life. Author of the theoretical work New Ideas in Visual Art.
Biography
Evgeny Medvedev was born in Oryol, Russia, and began drawing at an early age. At 13, he entered an art school in his hometown. In addition to life drawing, after classes Medvedev worked on plaster heads and figures. He also created anatomical sculptures and models in motion to capture the unique expressiveness of his subjects.
In 2010, Medvedev entered the faculty of the Oryol Art School (now the College of Arts and Culture) in his hometown. He continued his studies at the Ilya Repin Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. Surrounded by talented students and teachers, and influenced by works of Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov, Nikolai Feshin, and Isaac Levitan in Saint Petersburg museums, Medvedev refined his craft.
Currently, Evgeny Medvedev lives and works in Valsolda, Italy.
Artist Statement
Artist Statement
The art of drawing is an inexhaustibly rich field that perfectly combines lessons from sculpture and painting.
There are many approaches in drawing. An artist can continually develop skills by exploring all of them.
My current goals in drawing are to find new methods of correlating nature and drawing. For example, an artist may analyze nature (a model, still life, or any other object for drawing) in terms of tone, form, and silhouette, or may view nature as a combination of different geometric forms, and so on. The artist can use all these aspects in different combinations and obtain different results. The more relevant aspects the author uses, the more complex and expressive the drawing becomes.
Covers
- Mistakes of Youth — cover, typefaces
- Anxiety of Days — cover