Ivan Maslennikov was born in 1964 in Moscow, in ahighly cultured family of painters. He was involved indrawing and painting from childhood. Graduated fromthe Moscow Print Institute in 1993. His artistic creative individuality keeps harmony with rythmic a

Ivan Maslennikov was born in 1964 in Moscow, in ahighly cultured family of painters. He was involved indrawing and painting from childhood. Graduated fromthe Moscow Print Institute in 1993. His artistic creative individuality keeps harmony with rythmic and themes of contemporary music and poetry.

A meta-realistic trend in the creation of aneaselpainting piece of art is the key to the evocativelanguage of painter Ivan Maslennikov. The metaphoricalrealism rresumes the refraction of reality in the magiccristal of metaphor.

Ivan Maslennikov largely employs the serial principleof work,with one composition both adding to the effect ofanother.The viewing of a series of works gives one anidea of how the authorapproaches the creative processand develops various formal themes.