George Gale (Yuri Galetsky)
Russian federation
He was born in 1944 in Biysk, Altai region, Russia.
From 1946 he lived in Leningrad.
A participant in the Gazanevshchina, he emigrated with his family to Vienna in 1977, due to persecution by the authorities of unofficial artists, then moved to the United States.
Until 1986 he lived in New York and Jordanville, attended a theological seminary in an Orthodox monastery and became an icon painter.
In 1986 he returned to Leningrad, where he further lived and worked, returning from religious painting to secular painting.
Yuri Galetsky's artistic method, which the artist calls "intuitive realism", i.e. mapping the world with his "sixth sense", was influenced by Far Eastern art and the philosophy of Zen Buddhism. In his works, his taste for the plastic representation of musical themes is noticeable.
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Education:
Art School at the V. I. Mukhina Leningrad Higher Art School. Further independently mastered graphics and painting.
Styles:
Modern, Romanticism, Nonconformism, Intuitive Realism, Iconography
Exhibitions:
1971-1972 - "Artisanal"
1974 - at the flat of K. Kuzminsky
1974-1975 - at the Gaza and Nevsky Culture Houses
1976 - flat exhibitions in Leningrad and Moscow
Since 1986 - after his return to Russia he has regularly presented his works in group exhibitions in St Petersburg galleries.
Solo exhibitions:
1976 - at the "Priboy" Cinema, Leningrad.
2008 - "Yuriy Galetsky. Graphics", St. Petersburg.
Galetsky's works are kept in museums and private collections in Europe, America and Russia.
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