Nude paintings

Alexander Yakovlev’s nude paintings are so good because of their unusual, simple and at the same time distinguished lines and colours. Real nude women, not models, but painted so that to make them look like unreal gods, not living on earth. There is no end and no beginning of the line that draws a nude woman’s body, only a haze of a familiar image – forgotten?.. No, something carved in your memory but having nothing in common with reality and daily routine…

Alexander Yakovlev’s nude paintings are very refined besides their apparent roughness. His nude art works are for the admirers of natural beauty. He is a representative of realism in painting. He does not strive to make a nude body more beautiful than it is. He shows beauty and fantasy that goes far and beyond what our eyes can see. And wonders happen – looking at his pictures, you start fantasizing and seem to see not only something painted but your imagined reality, the reality of your dreams as well. Maybe it is because while painting, he talks to his paintings. He is a very unusual man. For 20 years of his life he had been a soldier of German army. But his life changed and from 1998 till now he has been the deputy director of Lugansk Art College.

Alexander has a lot of nude paintings represented at our web-site. Many of them are named “Nude” with a number (“Nude 5”, “Nude 6”, “Nude 13”, “Nude 28”). Also, Alexander puts his signature on all his works. To create an artwork, he makes from 1 to 20 attempts, then chooses the best one and continues with it. This is how his paintings see the light. That is why his style is unique and his technique cannot be repeated. He does no replicas and he has created about 6 thousand paintings. Let’s look at his painting “Spring of water”. That red band in her hair is like a bridge to reality because the rest of the girl’s naked body is only showed by a few lines of pencil… And at the same time she seems so real to us, just could be a neighbour from the next door. You do not know why but looking at his pictures, at the same time, you realise that it is something painted but still there is not a single step away from reality. His characters are living on the canvas, they prove real and natural besides their rough contours depicted with the help of bold strokes of a pencil…

Alexander Yakovlev’s pictures do not resemble anything in the real world. They are you dream, a vision without clear contours. Something appearing on your mind with a vague desire seizing you… (c)Yana Strelbizkaya