Valentin Korotkov is a Russian painter based in Moscow, who studied at the Art College of the Kharkov Academy of Design and Art.
He paints with a brusque, textural style, in which the surface texture and paint application is visible even in small reproductions.
His landscapes have a nice quality of casual immediacy, and range in color palette from intense to subdued. His still life compositions also show a range of palette choices, though they are often brought to a more refined finish. Korotkov also does figurative works that take on more of a narrative, illustrative quality.
There is an extensive selection of his work on his website, (note the links to subsequent pages at the bottom), and on the ArtNow.ru group gallery site.










Thank you for the introduction. These are beautiful!