I see no point in painting for the sake of painting, creating beautiful candy wrappers. I live every my picture. It’s important for an artist to combine academicism and the laws of creativity with the ideas that are born in his head.
The rebellious twentieth century shuffled the fates of many nations and particular people. Such fate didn’t pass by the artist’s family too. Leonid’s grandfather Ivan Popov was born in the Dnepropetrovsk region. As a member of the Komsomol, he participated in the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station. But neither an active citizenship, nor participation in a grand construction project helped Ivan to avoid the terrible consequences of the struggle of the Soviet government with its own people.
I see no point in painting for the sake of painting, creating beautiful candy wrappers. I live every my picture. It’s important for an artist to combine academicism and the laws of creativity with the ideas that are born in his head.
The rebellious twentieth century shuffled the fates of many nations and particular people. Such fate didn’t pass by the artist’s family too. Leonid’s grandfather Ivan Popov was born in the Dnepropetrovsk region. As a member of the Komsomol, he participated in the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station. But neither an active citizenship, nor participation in a grand construction project helped Ivan to avoid the terrible consequences of the struggle of the Soviet government with its...
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