Nikolai Stepanovich Safronov is a popular Russian artist, who is very much in demand at the moment both in his homeland and abroad. He is known more under the name - pseudonym Nikas Safronov. He took it for himself because the mother, whom he loved very much, was half Finnish - half Lithuanian - hence this pseudonym.
The childhood and youth of Nikas Safronov a
The artist was born in a large and very poor family of a retired militaryman on April 8, 1956 in the city on the Volga Ulyanovsk. In addition to him, there were five more children in his family - these are four brothers and one sister, whom he loved very much and still carries this love.
The parents of Nikas Safronov were deeply religious people. Father (Stepan Grigorievich Safronov) comes from a family of priests, in several generations. Mom (Anna Fedorovna Safronova), a native of Lithuania, the city of Panevizhes.
While still at school, Nikas became interested in drawing. He copied illustrations for books, sketched what he saw, created his own special style of drawing. But, nevertheless, becoming an artist at that time, he was not going to. After he graduated from eight classes (junior high school), he entered the naval school, which was in Odessa and even studied there for a year. But the passion for drawing took its toll and, abandoning the sailor, he enters the art school in the city of Rostov-on-Don (1975).
Personal life and work of the artist
From this time begins the adult life of the author. He has to combine his studies at school with work. He worked as a loader, a janitor, a props in the theater, a watchman. The work helped him study at the school, which, like the first, he also did not finish, since he was taken into the army, which he successfully served in the city of Valna.
After the army, he continues work related to painting. She works in her mother’s homeland as a theater designer, fabric artist. Then, having moved to Vilnius, Safronov entered and graduated from the State Art Institute (1978-1982). In 1991 he moved to Moscow. He enters and graduates from the Surikov Institute and finally remains in the capital.
But, already since 1973, Nikas Safronov writes a lot, exhibits, and also sells his works. His solo exhibitions bring him great fame, even in his small homeland.
In Moscow, the artist not only paints, but also works a lot: as a consultant, artist, art director in well-known magazines such as Penthouse, World of Stars, Diplomat and other no less famous ones. But the main thing, of course, is that he is engaged in his main business - his work.
Safronov is known to a wide circle of fans of his work as a talented portrait painter who painted many portraits of our political and public figures (Putin, Medvedev), film artists (Mikhalkov, Kidman) and pop music (Kirkorov, Madonna). It should be noted that he painted portraits of famous officials not only in Russia, but also in Belarus, Ukraine, and Turkmenistan.
Celebrity works are often exhibited in museums in our country and abroad. For example, they have repeatedly exhibited at the international festival "Slavic Bazaar" in the St. Petersburg gallery "Russian Portrait". The artist’s paintings visited many cities of our country and were shown in various museums of these cities.
Nikas Safronov conquered and continues to conquer the general public. Thanks to his exhibitions, almost everyone in our country knows him and not only in our country. Solo exhibitions of the artist are very popular and are very successful.
Nikas Safronov never stands still and is constantly developing as a professional. Confirmation of this can serve as his direction "Dream Vision", which he created and which has become very popular at the moment of his work. It is especially popular in certain circles of society in different countries of the world. This direction is different from other contemporary areas of art. Based on classical painting, it relies on such things as subconsciousness and intuition, imagination and unconscious sensations.
At the same time, Nikas Safronov is known not only as a creative person, but also as a hero of film plots and literary works, and even as a participant in various television shows.
And he is famous as a philanthropist, which also brings him well-deserved recognition of people.
Speaking about the biography of the celebrity, it should be noted that Safronov was married three times (once unofficially). He has children, both born in marriage, two of them, and illegitimate - Luke and Landin.
