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Igor Samsonov: Painter and Passionate Visionary Hardcover – September 2, 2014

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Igor Samsonov: Painter and Passionate Visionary showcases the work of Igor Samsonov, one of the most accomplished of a new wave of Russian artists. Referring to his art as total art, Samsonov aims to produce artistic creations rather than mere paintings. Total art consists of more than just the exquisite figures and vibrant colors the reader will see on the canvases displayed in this book. Each frame encompasses a painting, a story, and sometimes even imaginary music all at once.
This book not only presents the reader with beautiful paintings, which speak for themselves, but it also tells the stories behind them and explores the symbolism within. This journal of Igor Samsonov s artistic achievements to date was written in collaboration with the artist himself, who believes that each story and painting continues to mature in the same way that a person ages.
In the end it is up to each reader to enjoy his own story and painting, whether together or separately.
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    180 pages
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  3. Publisher
    David Salomon
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    September 2, 2014
  5. ISBN-10
    0615970702
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0615970707
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David Salomon is a businessman, photographer, penguin enthusiast, and part-time writer from Dallas, Texas. The author of Penguin-Pedia and Who Needs a Government, Salomon switches topics yet again as he ventures into the world of Igor Samsonov s total art.
One of Salomon s passions is to visit art museums all over the world. Being a nature photographer, he has three things in mind when standing in front of a painting: color, composition, and movement. In Samsonov he found a rare artist who is a master of all three of these elements and much more. The first thing Salomon saw in Samsonov s paintings was the artist s use of vibrant colors, but he soon also noticed his skillful attention to detail and the symbolism in each painting. Salomon wanted to shine an additional light on Samsonov s works by displaying each painting along with its respective story.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ David Salomon (September 2, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 180 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0615970702
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0615970707
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

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David Salomon is a lifelong photographer, part-time writer, and full-time real estate developer from Dallas, Texas.

David has always loved animals and has a knack for taking pictures. After being struck by "penguin-mania" while visiting Chilean Patagonia, David spent the next two summers sailing the southern oceans to photograph all seventeen penguin species in the wild. He also launched a massive search to personally verify old and new information about these graceful birds. His photos were combined with the most up-to-date research to create Penguin-Pedia, the most comprehensive penguin book available today.

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In 2014 Salomon published Igor Samsonov: Painter and Passionate Visionary, a book which showcases the work of Russian painter Igor Samsonov.

Random House published David's first children's book "Penguins!" on October 10, 2017 as part of their Step into Reading series for children. "Penguins!" follows a penguin couple through their efforts to raise a chick and uses David's original photographs of Chinstrap penguins in the wild. It is a Step 2 Reader, which uses basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories, intended for children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.

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Rudy T.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Artist
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2018
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Absolutely love this book of this wonderful artist. We were able to meet the artist in Dallas and see the real paintings.
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Mr. Wind-Up Bird
4.0 out of 5 stars Happy to own this book featuring Samsonov Paintings
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2018
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I was very pleased to find a book with decent color reproductions of some of Igor Samonov's paintings. The work is familiar and strange at the same time, and in addition to the brilliant use of color and composition, Samsonov plants mystery all over the canvas... through strange juxtapositions, contrasts, between the objects, the portraits, and mixes a contemporary feel with an iconic classicism, placing animals, birds, nude young women, strange objects, into a spaces dominated by with stone-faced priests or government officials, aristocrats, bureaucrats, and also literally putting writing on the walls in these spaces, numerals, text that resembles various scripts... Latin, Hebrew, cursive English? The work contains symbols personal to the artist, and not everything, or everyone, is only what it, he/she, appears to be on the surface. These symbols, the facial expressions and clothing of the people within the painting, open each canvas to a mysterious atmosphere, a hinted at story, that invites contemplation. I've dropped my rating by one star, not because of the art, but because of the short summary explanations of symbols and meanings that accompany each reproduction written by David Salomon, with collaboration from Samsonov. As much as I appreciate Salomon's bringing this booking into existence, I would have preferred it without his interpretations, leaving me free to let the paintings tell me their stories without imposing his imagination on mine.

I agree with those Symbolists of the late 19th century who, having created new and personal symbols, chose not to explain them, saying that a symbol explained is no longer a symbol, is robbed of its mystery, and would rob the viewer of seeing the the art through his or her own eyes and imagination, thus allowing the symbols and story to manifest as subjective experience to each person who studies the pictures or poems.

It isn't my intent to insult the author's interpretation, nor obviously, the painter's. I'd simply prefer the work to be presented and allowed to speak to me directly, without so much space devoted to explanations of what the symbols mean, what the story is. I thankfully still had questions, could see what were clearly important pieces of a puzzle that weren't commented on in the author's explanations. I also chose to stop reading them after having read a few. I'll go back to them later.

I thank the author, and the artist, for making this book available. Too many contemporary artists have no monographs available for those who can't see (or afford) the work itself, and are stuck in website land. At least there are websites, but when I really like something, I want more, and for me, a nice monograph of the work, in print, is more. Meanwhile, there is a new book on each of the same four or five well-known, worthy, influential, brilliant, but dead artists hitting the shelves of bookstores every year. Big publishing is more like a museum than a gallery or studio, and the monographs for contemporary art, tied to exhibits, are limited, quickly out-of-print and hard to find or afford. Grab this one while it's available for some interesting contemporary art. How many books showing the same work and repeating the same information, on Monet, for example, does one need?

Samsonov is a real painter, rigorously educated in technique, who has gone beyond only technique and creates art very much his own... not without its influences, but not imitation.... and he is not one of the many digital surrealists.

I am grateful for this book. I do hope for another future Samsonov monograph with excellent reproductions not split so often by the fold, and with less or no space used for interpretations that impose a story into the mental space in which my version of the story could develop.
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