Alexander Alekseev-Svinkin was born in 1952 in Chelyabinsk. In 1971 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Art School. Participant of city, regional, zonal, republican and international exhibitions. Member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1978. He is close to naïve-narrative compositions, spectacular portraits and majestic still lifes that immerse the viewer in a world of color full of associations and metaphors, quotes, hints, reflections and sensations. He was named by the founder of the style of "Fairytale Realism" by the biographical reference book "Who's Who" in 1998. The work of Alekseev-Svinkin is thoroughly Russian, in some places even lubok. The heroes of his paintings are tsars, bogatyrs, red maidens, remote Cossacks, bears, as well as heroes of Gogol and Tolstov. And the background for such characters is a Russian village, a forest, a certain fabulous Russian space. Alexander Alekseev - Svinkin - the most unpredictable of Yekaterinburg painters, constantly changing, always different, but invariably interesting in each of his artistic "guises". He is so multifaceted that sometimes it is difficult to believe that he is the same artist.
