By seeking the greatest living traditional artists to become professors and selecting the most promising artists to educate, the Surikov Institute in post soviet Moscow perserved the master-student approach to passing on knowledge. The select living artists that Lazare Gallery represents are unique descendants of some of the greatest painters in Russian history. They continue to make an impact on the evolution of painting. The remarkable depth and richness of their work stems from an adherence to time-honored disiplines of seeing and accurately interpreting the unity within nature.
