Sergey Tyukanov

Art Appreciation

Welcome to the dream world of Sergey Tyukanov. Born on May 17, 1955 in Russia's largest island, Sakhalin, Tyukanov has taken bedtime stories and myths to create worlds in etchings, drawings, paintings and book prints, also known as ex libris.

One of his famous themes is Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, where Tyukanov introduces us to his imaginative world of Wonderland.

He has some other fantatic drawings and paintings that are full of philosophical elements and thought. For example, Town of Time, where Tyukanov illustrates a puppet hanging from a bridge with sand timers as vertical towers.

Probably one of my Tyukanov favorite is the watercolor painting of The Moon -- an imaginary stone covered city in the shape of a half crescent moon floating between a canyon.

Sources: http://artodyssey1.blogspot.com/2010/05/sergey-tyukanov-here-and-here-sergey.html; http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/04/tyukanov-revisited.html; http://www.tyukanov.com/; http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2012/02/sergey-tyukanov.html