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Nikolay Lavetsky works in the manner of Pararealism, the art of presenting beauty supersaturated by information, beauty of intellectuals depicting the real in the abstract and the abstract in the real, the ultimate limit to the contradictions of the absurd and further aggravation of ideas, forms, images, sophisticated drawings and complexity of meaning, which creates mystic allegories about the universe.


For more than thirty years he has been creating numerous figure compositions, portraits and still lives (paintings and graphics) which he exhibits in galleries and sells from his studio in Moscow.


Nikolay Lavetsky graduated from the Theoretical Physics faculty of National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) with a degree in "The Physics of Metals and Metallography" in 1971.


Before University he took a two-year preparatory course of drawing at the Moscow Architectural Institute (MArchI).

Since 1972 till 1989, he worked as a freelance artist with SU leading newspapers, magazines and since 1974 with SU leading publishers ("Detskaya Literatura", "Molodaya Gvardiya", etc.) and illustrated more than 70 books.


 Since 1973, Nikolay Lavetsky has joined as a member the Moscow Professional Committee of Graphic Artists (now the Creative Union of Artists of Russia).

 In 1978, he got an award of the International Exhibition of Caricaturists in Gabrovo (Bulgaria).

 In 1990, Nikolay Lavetsky ceases working in book graphics and devotes himself entirely to painting.

 Since 2017, Nikolay Lavetsky has become a Member of Mondial Art Academia.


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Nikolay Lavetsky works in the manner of Pararealism, the art of presenting beauty supersaturated by information, beauty of intellectuals depicting the real in the abstract and the abstract in the real, the ultimate limit to the contradictions of the absurd and further aggravation of ideas, forms, images, sophisticated drawings and complexity of meaning, which creates mystic allegories about the universe.


For more than thirty years he has been creating numerous figure compositions, portraits and still lives (paintings and graphics) which he exhibits in galleries and sells from his studio in Moscow.


Nikolay Lavetsky graduated from the Theoretical Physics faculty of National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) with a degree in "The Physics of Metals and Metallography" in 1971.


Before University he took a two-year preparatory course of drawing at the Moscow Architectural Institute (MArchI).

Since 1972 till 1989, he worked as a freelance artist with SU leading newspapers, magazines and since 1974 with SU leading publishers ("Detskaya Literatura", "Molodaya Gvardiya", etc.) and illustrated more than 70 books.


 Since 1973, Nikolay Lavetsky has joined as a member the Moscow Professional Committee of Graphic Artists (now the Creative Union of Artists of Russia).

 In 1978, he got an award of the International Exhibition of Caricaturists in Gabrovo (Bulgaria).

 In 1990, Nikolay Lavetsky ceases working in book graphics and devotes himself entirely to painting.

 Since 2017, Nikolay Lavetsky has become a Member of Mondial Art Academia.