Portrait Study

    Female head and portrait study, 20"X20", acrylic on paper, 2012

My face studies are focusing on sadness and happiness. Abstract background is made with poured, smeared and splattered paint. The ground is interesting to view due to it's ability to evoke images of landscapes, figures, faces, etc. I've re-arranged  abstract landscape parts as well as human heads from different paintings. There is a more dramatic charge to these visual elements in collages.

    Material, 20"X18", acrylic on canvas, 2009

    Suffering face, collage, 2012

    Untitled, collage, 2012

Painting by Maxim Grunin

    War And Suffering, acrylic on paper (head study), 2012

    Sadness, acrylic on paper (study), 2012

Maxim Grunin Painting 2012

    Stop Homicidal Force, 40"X30", acrylic on canvas, 2012

    Stop Homicidal Force (detail)

    Stop Homicidal Force (detail)

Figure Painting by Maxim Grunin

In Dreams, 40"X30", acrylic on canvas, 2011

Figurative Paintings 2012 set1

    Fear Pain And War, 30"X40", acrylic on canvas, 2012

    World Of War, 30"X40", acrylic on canvas, 2012

    In A System Controlled by violence, 30"X40", acrylic on canvas, 2012

    Without Compassion, 30"X30", acrylic on canvas, 2012

    No Happy Ever Afters, 40"X30", acrylic on canvas, 2012

    Stop Homicidal Force, 40"X30", acrylic on canvas, 2012

    Sadness, acrylic on paper (study), 2012

    War And Suffering, acrylic on paper (head study), 2012

    Back When I Was, 16"X20", oil on canvas, 2009

    Dream Games, 16"X20", oil on canvas, 2009

   When Are We, 16"X20", oil on canvas, 2009

    Untitled, 20"X20", acrylic on canvas, 2009

    Way Back When We Were Happy, 18"X18", oil on canvas, 2009

Head study, untitled by Maxim Grunin

Untitled, 30"X24", oil with acrylic under-painting (gallery wrap), 2009. This head study depicts a young woman with her mouth open and her tongue sticking out. Grotesque facial expression is accompanied by calm, studying gaze of the person in the painting. I was attracted to the ambiguity of the reference picture I've collected in order to produce this work. I wanted the immediacy of  the brush strokes to come forth in this study. Making the piece was a carefully calculated process based on my experience as a classically trained painter. Please visit my web store on eBay under Maxim Grunin.