THE DEATH OF A WOLF (1973)

About the work

On the example of Severin Kiyan, we can observe a unique phenomenon — the professional skills learned in the workshops of the Italian masters, combined with naive art language of the rural self-taught painter, creating expressive blend of high style and folk narrative. Unpretentious, lovely heart Severin, landscapes of his native village submitted through the prism of the Italian landscape school. The desire is not a professional artist to create a surreal atmosphere of realism neo-primitivism, bringing the product to the post-modern concept. Almost self-contained cultural cliches narrative creates a multilayered reality, where the text is not the author, and any idea — Heritage Society. People's Artist of the decline of copying that is inherent creativity and Severin Kiyan. The artist does not think of himself an opponent of his predecessors, for him, “ Bears in the Forest ” is a visual object along with steppe landscapes of his native village. Abundant citations without brackets generously treated to a Shishkin and Vassilkovskaya, “small Dutch ” PEROVA and Bruegel, an Italian sfumato and the mass motives.