Leonid Afremov, the artist, was born in city of Vitebsk, , in 1955. Amazingly enough Leonid was born in the same town as Marc Chagall, the famous artist who also founded the Vitebsk Art School along with Malevich & Kandinsky.
Leonid Afremov graduated from Vitebsk Art School in 1978 and is one of the elite members.
Leonid began his career, painting with oil and selling his art in various exhibitions. His talent achieved its real heights. Only when he moved to Israel in 1990. The scorching southern sun and colorful landscape inspired Leonid’s paintings that today still reflect bright, positive and joyous feelings. The artist himself is an extreme optimist and this can be easily seen in his creative artworks. His paintings make viewers feel lighter and more positive.
Leonid’s personality reflects his unusual technique which was developed and perfected over his many years of hard work. His artistic style is one of a kind and easily recognized. Leonid uses a palette-knife instead of regular brushes in his application of the paint to the canvas. A Palette-knife itself originally was intended to be used for cleaning old paint from canvases. It is very rare that any artist ventures to use it as Leonid does, as an instrument in painting. It is even more rare that any artist uses it as his or her only instrument. Working with a palette-knife provides endless possibilities, but it is a technique that is extremely difficult to master.
Website: Leonid Afremov
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