Mikhail Yuryevich Kugach

The path in the art of Mikhail Yuryevich Kugach attracts with its tradition. Born in the family of famous artists Olga Grigoryevna Svetlichnaya and Yuri Petrovich Kugach, he absorbed their creative principles and continued the development of the Russian realistic school with his work. The teachers of his parents N. P. Krymov, S. V. Gerasimov, I. E. Grabar combined the young artist with a living relationship with the art of great ancestors. He could only not change that depth and moral purity, which is the essence of Russian art.
Favorite genres of Mikhail Kugach - a picture, a landscape and their interpenetration. The precisely found state of nature is the bearer of feelings, the spiritual state of the heroes of his paintings. And in his landscapes we find a hidden compositional meaning, where the presence of a person is always felt. Mikhail Yuryevich lives all his life in the village among people close to him. Around him, the Russian fields and forests, rivers and lakes who are idolized by him. He is the flesh from the flesh of the Russian people surrounding him with their joys and sorrows, troubles and misfortunes, with their Orthodox soul, and his work is devoted to them