Novikov Alexey

Is a famous Russian primitive painter and sculptor, nonconformist, philosopher-cosmist.

Born April 15, 1931 in the Oryol region. He served 6 years as a submariner in the USSR Naval Forces (in the Red Banner Northern Fleet) in Murmansk, pos. Vedyaevo, the city of Polar. Veteran of World War II, a submariner veteran of the Northern Fleet. He graduated from the Republican Art School named after Ilya Repin (Chisinau), studied at the Academy of Arts of the Latvian USSR (Riga). Member of the USSR Union of Artists since 1969, academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (Moscow).

Works in genres portrait, still life, landscape, thematic picture; mainly in oil painting technique. Participates in exhibitions since 1964. Awarded the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts Arts in 2016 and the Silver Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts Arts in Russia in 2017. He actively participated in foreign personal and collective exhibitions in England, Italy, Singapore, Turkey, France, Germany, Poland from the Ministry of Culture of the USSR and the Union of Artists of the USSR.