LUGANSK ARTIST SERGEI KONDRASHOV. REFLECTIONS AT THE EXHIBITION. AUGUST 2023

The article is devoted to an analysis of the work of the Lugansk painter Sergei Nikolaevich Kondrashov, whose exhibition was presented in the halls of the Central House of Artists in August 2023. The exhibition was launched as part of the project “With Russia in the Heart. Russian classical tradition in the art of the LPR.” The article opens with a brief analysis of the formation of the Russian art school of the New Age and an analysis of the grounds for classifying it as a classical tradition. The work of Sergei Kondrashov is examined on a chronological and typological basis, which allows for a reasoned analysis of his creative method and the features of the figurative design of the paintings. The breadth of Sergei Kondrashov's creative interests is very wide. His artistic practice covers almost all genres and a wide variety of techniques. He is a portrait and landscape painter, a master of still life and elegant nudes, he is equally successful in genre and historical painting. Kondrashov’s subjects are acutely responsive to momentary events and at the same time filled with multi-level connotations, allowing them to be classified as historical paintings.