My name is Albert Safiullin and I am an artist painting landscapes with oil and oil pastels. I became an artist through my innate curiosity and interest in the mysteries of human race and universe. I always liked to contemplate the surrounding nature. The more I saw and learned, the more I wanted to express it with paints on canvas. Art requires a lot of knowledge. Books in my childhood, science in my youth, traveling at adulthood, beautiful museums, interest in photography, and finally my favorite friends and family – eventually brought me into painting.Painting is now my passion and I would love for you to feel the same way as I do about art and in particular painting landscapes!
BIO:
Albert Safiullin is an artist from Moscow (Russia), has been engaged in landscape painting since 2013. He paints in oils and draws with oil pastels, enjoys landscape photography. Albert graduated from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at Gorky University. Studied at the Fuqua School of Duke University (USA), has an MBA degree in Strategic Management. Since 1990 he has been working in the field of telecommunications and information technology.
In 2020, Albert’s works were exhibited at the international exhibition “ARTSTART without borders” in Moscow (Art Deco Museum). The artist’s works were purchased by collectors from the USA, Spain and Great Britain.
«I was born in 1962 in the small village of Kamskoye Ustye on the Volga river. My parents passed on genes of curiosity to me, and then it started spinning by itself: books, secrets of nature, history, desire to think, logic of science, open borders, travel, ocean, diving, the appearance of taste, museums of the world, the Internet, the impression of Monet, iPhone, Courbet rocks, digital photography, the purchase of the first painting, Van Gogh’s letters, social networks, the Cezanne mountains, Chagall’s colors … and finally I became an artist.
Painting for me is a window into a world in which taste and harmony reign, a world of bold experiments coexisting with a sense of proportion. A world in which there is a right to choose, here you yourself constantly choose alternatives and yourself determine the course of events.
Paints, canvas and easel are only attributes, and the foundation of landscape painting is the desire to see, the willingness to notice, to be able to observe, the desire to contemplate in solitude and at the same time a passionate desire to convey your impressions to others. The ability to be surprised usually leads to a desire to surprise.
The painting process is fascinating. The initial chaos of colored spots on the canvas suddenly takes on meaning and outlines. One random stroke changes everything unpredictably. Simple – imperceptibly becomes complex, the parts gradually add up to a whole. Time flies by – it’s a real passion! It’s hard to know when to stop – the feeling of flow. I study again and experience the unspeakable pleasure of free creativity…»