Bio
Eugeny Medvedev was born in Oryol, Russia, and began to draw and paint at an early age. At 13, he attended the art school in his home town. In addition to drawing from life, Medvedev drew from plaster heads and figures after school. He also created anatomical sculptures and models in motion, in order to capture the unique expressiveness of his sitters.
In 2010, Medvedev joined the faculty of the College of Fine Arts in his home town of Oryol. After two years in the sculpture department, he began teaching classical painting and composition at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, Ilya Repin, in St. Petersburg. Surrounded and influenced by talented students and teachers, as well as by the works of Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov, Nicolai Fechin, and Isaac Levitan, who were featured in St. Petersburg’s museums, Medvedev honed his craft.
Medvedev currently lives and works in Chisinau, Moldova.
Statement
“The art of drawing is an inexhaustibly rich field, perfectly combining the lessons of sculpture and painting.
In drawing, there are a variety of approaches. The artist can constantly develop his skills by exploring all of them.
My current goals in drawing are to find new methods of comparing nature and drawing. For example, the artist can analyze nature (the model, still lifes, or whatever else they want to draw) in terms of tones, forms, and silhouette, or they can look at nature as if it is a congregation of different geometric forms, etc. The artist can use all of these aspects in different combinations and get different results. As many suitable aspects as the author uses, so complex and expressive the drawing will be.
The genre of self-portraiture is perfect for those experiments and research.”
