Saint-Petersburg Abstract Art: Portrait Essays

Saint-Petersburg abstract painting is an original artistic phenomenon that has been taking shape within the last fifty years. The article characterizes art of the most talented representatives of this trend: L. Borisov, E. Orlov, V. Dukhovlinov, I. Orlov, I. OLasuk, A. Chistiakov, A. Ujanaev. Their creations are marked by high artistic culture and they believe abstraction to be the art facing both reality and another spatial and temporal, metaphysical dimensions, with their discovery being so attractive for all of these different artists.