The Paintings of Leonid Afremov

The Loneliness of Autumn

Night Reflections

Farewell Party

These palette knife paintings are very beautiful  I really appreciate how these scenes are portrayed so realistically with such a surreal color scheme. All the over saturated hues blend together to show the paths of light very well. There is a quite observable influence of the Impressionist movement in Leonid's work. Impressionism is a way of painting where the artist does not physically blend the paint on the canvas. Instead, they uses dots or spots of color and when you view the image from far away all the dots come together in a phenomena referred to as "optical blending." I also appreciate how the simple shapes in these paintings come together to create more complex forms. I liked this style so much when I first saw it that i ended up making the background of this blog one of this artist's paintings.