{"id":16994,"date":"2015-07-08T01:04:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T00:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16994"},"modified":"2023-06-22T15:40:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T14:40:48","slug":"the-art-of-aleksandr-kosteckij","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/07\/08\/the-art-of-aleksandr-kosteckij\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Aleksandr Kosteckij"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the kind of fantastic art I like a great deal: nebulous landscapes whose vast forms may be some kind of hybrid architecture; implications of the alien and mystical that retain some ambiguity; dreamlike without slipping into post-Surrealist clich\u00e9. Monsieur Thombeau at Full Fathom Five<\/a> (whose excellent eye I have to thank once again) describes the paintings of Aleksandr Kosteckij\/Kostetsky (1954\u20132010) as being “like Gustave Moreau, Salvador Dal\u00ed, and Max Ernst put in a blender and left out in the rain.” I’d place them somewhere between Ernst Fuchs<\/a> and Bruce Pennington<\/a> but Moreau’s chimeras are certainly present. You’d think an artist of this calibre with a large body of work would be better known, most of the attention at the moment seems to be on Russian websites. Let’s hope that changes soon.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Thanks to Joe for pointing the way to this dedicated website<\/a>, something I missed in my haste.<\/p>\n

Examples chosen from these sites:
\n\u2022 http:\/\/vk.com\/album-32941665_175452413<\/a> (139 images)
\n\u2022 http:\/\/www.2photo.ru\/en\/post\/18614<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The fantastic art archive<\/a>
\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the kind of fantastic art I like a great deal: nebulous landscapes whose vast forms may be some kind of hybrid architecture; implications of the alien and mystical that retain some ambiguity; dreamlike without slipping into post-Surrealist clich\u00e9. Monsieur Thombeau at Full Fathom Five (whose excellent eye I have to thank once again) … Continue reading “The art of Aleksandr Kosteckij”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,21,44,18],"tags":[7460,2783,724,6662,347,112,87,5038],"class_list":["post-16994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fantasy","category-painting","category-surrealism","tag-aleksandr-kosteckij","tag-bruce-pennington","tag-ernst-fuchs","tag-full-fathom-five","tag-gustave-moreau","tag-max-ernst","tag-salvador-dali","tag-thombeau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4q6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}