Vasili Golubev - Master Landscape Expressionist

Modest, focused within himself, introverted, preferring to spend all his time out in the open air, he had no interest in self-representation or any of the social and political manifestations which were obligatory in official art. Thus it was, that official art saw him as an outsider. He was seen, in the best Russian tradition, almost as being holy, as someone not of this world. If he had been part of the cultural elite this brilliant exponent of post-Impressionism would have been seen as Western-oriented, a cosmopolitan – in itself a dangerous category, but he was instead a man of simple peasant roots, a man “of the earth”, and could hardly be suspected of such Western leanings.