Nikolai Vasilievich Kuzmin

Nikolai Vasilievich Kuzmin (Russian: Николай Васильевич Кузьмин) is a Russian painter born in 1938 in Talynskoye, Vachsky District, not far from the town of Nizhny Novgorod. After studying in the Art College of Pavlovo-na-Oke, close to his home village Talynskoye, he entered the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry[1] and became an alumni in 1970. In 1991 he entered the Artists' Union of the USSR, which became in 1992 the Union of Russian Artists.

Nikolai Kuzmin likes painting the architecture of his home town Moscow.[2]

The painter has travelled and painted widely in Western Europe [3][4] and organised some exhibitions there, notably in France.[5][6][7][8][9]

In France the artist's exhibitions take place in galleries, museums [10] and annual exhibitions organised in common by artists, such as Art Capital or Souvenir de Corot in Paris and its neighbourhood.

Nikolai Kuzmin's painting is not far from expressionism and fauvism[11].

The painter's work has been strongly influenced by the remembrance of his childhood[12].

Nikolai Kuzmin's favourite painting technique is oil on canvas with spatula.[13] However the artist has also been participating for many years in the Watercolour and Drawing Annual Exhibition in Grand Palais, Paris, France.

In France artist's paintings are available in the Matthieu Dubuc gallery in Rueil-Malmaison, in the vicinity of Paris-La Défense[14][15][16].

Nikolai Kuzmin also has regular exhibitions in Russia, notably with the Moscow Union of artists, of which he is a member[17].

The themes covered by Nikolai Kuzmin's paintings are varied[18][19]:

• Garden-spring-blooming
• Artwork on paper / On the road to Murom-the Farewell
• Abstract oil artwork / Interlacing of roads
• Portrait
• After the war
• Travel:

○ Paris Region:

- Ponds of Corot

- Forest of Fausses Repose

- Versailles-Viroflay

- Around Paris

- Paris

○ French Province:

- Mediterranean

- Corsica

- Sainte-Victoire-Mountain

- The Alps

- Brittany

- Normandy

- Other French regions

○ Croatia

○ Crimea

• Native soil
• At the dacha
• Architecture:

○ Moscow

○ Russia

○ Europe

• Landscape:

○ Russian landscape

○ Russian winter landscape

○ Europe

• Religious, popular and mythological:

○ Religious

○ Popular

○ Mythological

• Still life and Flowers:

○ Still life

○ Flowers

• Other themes