The 400 works that make up the Yury Zlotnikov restropective at the Marble Palace of the Russian Museum reflect the long and creative life of the Moscow painter. Moving between the topics and canvasses, it becomes apparent that the painter’s color scheme has not changed with time and with age, even if the themes have moved on substantially from the 1950s into the 1990s and the new century, and as he moved from representational art to abstraction. During the press conference that preceded the exhibition’s opening event last week, Zlotnikov said that has he always tried to remain upbeat and express positive feelings in his work in spite of the harsh realities of Soviet and Russian life. He began to visit laboratories and medical institutes and to study the rhythms of the internal organs and the heart. The city inspires the artist and he returns to city scenes, to the crowds filling Moscow streets, to the cars and the stores, time and again in his work.

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