Serge Poliakoff (Russian: Серж Поляков) (Moscow, January 8, 1900 - Paris, October 12, 1969) is one of the most famous art painters of the post-war abstract art flow in France, the 'Ecole de Paris'. He has slowly grown to the abstract painting. biography
Initially, Poliakoff studied classes at the Moscow Academy of Arts. After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, he flew in 1917 for Bolshevik. After wanderings he came to Constantinople in 1920 where he earned his daily cost with guitar games. In 1923 he arrived in Paris and laid on painting again. His painting at that time was completely academic and traditional. He made many still lifes.
Shortly after he met Wassily Kandinsky, following Robert Delaunay's painting lessons, after a long hesitation, he began to release figurative painting and make his first truly abstract art. He soon became acquainted and influenced within the new abstract art flow 'Ecole de Paris'. Until the 50's he still earned money with playing the balalaika. He became a French citizen in 1962 and, in the same year, received a venue for France on the Venice Biënnale for exhibiting a series of abstract paintings on behalf of France. Work
Characteristic of Poliakoff's abstract work is that his abstract paintings are completely filled with colorful, non-geometric faces. The atmosphere is quite poetic and somewhat organic. There is no optical space or depth at work, it is just flat. The painting gesture is barely visible and in any case does not play an important role, as it does with many abstract expressionists in America from the same time.
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