Evgeny & Lydia Baranov

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Evgeny Baranov and Lydia Velichko Baranov represent a unique combination of artists painting together – simultaneously, on the same canvas. A very small number of collaborative studio work examples can be found throughout the history of art, however, the Baranovs collaborate not only in the comfort of the studio, but in plein air as well. Working in a duet enables the artists to perform faster in the ever-changing plein air conditions and also to evaluate their own accomplishments in a more comprehensive and more critical manner.

The Baranovs are members of several national and international professional clubs and associations. Paintings by the Baranovs are offered at important galleries throughout the United States. Their works are represented in government, corporate and private collections in over a dozen countries of the world, often with more than ten major paintings accumulated in a single collection.

The Baranovs stand for FINE ART as opposed to MASS PRODUCTION. We are against the commercialization of art, – the Baranovs emphasize. Against cliches and templates, where the same images are traveling from one painting to another for the sake of commercial success. And even more so against mechanical mass reproduction. Although the freedom and many rewards of the artistic profession are somewhat enjoyable, each painting is born “in hard labor”, and only then it may claim to be called “a work of art.”