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Anatoly Krynsky Fine Art - Commentary

Introduction: by Gaither Stewart
In retrospect my relationship with the art world of Anatoly Krynsky seems like a long dream.  A dream of art.  A dream of life.  It seems only yesterday that in the fields on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in south Italy in the summer Anatoly in one month painted under my eyes his first exhibit in Italy.

That elusive dream is like a passage through Anatoly Krynsky's life themes: from his transformation of religious iconographic styles into Russian Constructivism and European Cubism, to his mystical world of masks, to the magic centaurs, to the Cherry trees of Central Park.  On his walk of dreams Krynsky has magically transfigured old models from ancient times with a new spirit of modernism.

Dream-like art in its effect, but unlike a dream in the severity of the rules of the total artist: I think of his art as an ordered phantasmagoria.  Surrounded by Anatoly's art, I have always seemed to hear the distant music of one great symphonic composition.
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Gaither Stewart, correspondent in Italy for the Dutch daily Algemeen Dagblag, has written widely on European culture and reported for many years on East Europe for many European publications.

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