Alexander Ivanov
Alexander Alexandrovich Osmerkin was, in my opinion, a born teacher who knew how, like no one else, to explain the difficulties encountered in the work, while finding surprisingly accurate, sometimes not direct, but giving food for thought words. We painte a model. I work over the canvas, trying to put together the whole production, and applied thousands of fractional strokes with small brushes. Osmerkin said: “Osipov, it would be nice for you to addd a some Fechin ...” And somehow everything became clear."Personal artistic experience allowed Alexander Osmerkin to discover difficult and subtle connections in the painting of Russian and Western European masters. So, revealing to us the method of Cezanne, he compared it with the picturesque experience of Alexander Ivanov, and then Cezanne's “Mount St. Victoria ”with its transitions of clearly defined color plans – from warm pink and orange to blue and blue – becomes somewhere very close to the Italian canvases of our great Alexander Ivanov.