whole atmosphere and fixates your feelings. Reality here can only serve as a starting point for Art to travel to the place where Idea dwells “Clothed in sensual form”. About Underground: “True art was and always will be an outsider, staying beyond the limits of the aquarium of art life and always remote from the crafty art feeder. It is the “salt”, without it art becomes bland, it is the “cut” of the diamond, and as defined by Jean Cocteau, reflects artistic aristocracy. Only when we look at the pieces created by such artists as Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Modigliani, cast out by contemporaries, we see deeply into fundamental reasoning of art”. Quotes About Him By Russian Art Critic Stanislav Aidenyan: "His [Konstantin Skoptsov's] name is among the most talented graphic artists in Odessa. Konstantin is an artist and a poet, though also is known to be a kind of a philosopher, a thinker who encourages submerging into the subconscious mind. His creative work combines avant-garde and tradition, mysticism and unchained elaborate imagery... That could be said in reference to both his visually- artistic and literary-poetic experiments". By Ukrainian journalist Viktor Tymoshenko: “the subjects [of Skoptsov artworks] are inspired by the ancient chinese and japanese poets, by the couplets of their genius creations. It is a mystery how Konstantin Skoptsov "materializes", populates a sheet of paper with dreams, "phantoms", horrors, outer worlds of the remote, unfamiliar to us time". Gallery Achievements and awards A registered member of Professional Artist Union of Russian Federation. Representative of Paris School of Ukrainian Painting in Odessa, founded by Temistokl Vyrsta. Representative of Art-Association Fenix, Paris. Founder of Semantic Realism art style. Honorary Fellow of Russian-Italian Academy Ferrony. Fellowship at Nouvelle Academie Libre (Paris). Member of Art-Club Ekaterinenskaya Square, Moscow. Recipient of Ordre souverain militaire hospitalier de Saint-Jean, de Jérusalem, de Rhodes et de Malte award for Achievements in Art. Finalist of Ukrainian Rating Project Top 100 Pride of Ukraine: Men. Solo and group exhibitions 1986 – Participant, Group Exhibition Salon of Association of Galleries of Taiwan, Hong-Kong. 1989 – Participant, Group Exhibition City Dreams, State Literary Museum, Odessa, Ukraine. 1990 – Participant, Group Exhibition Mystic Art, Odessa Museum of History and Ethnography, Odessa, Ukraine. 1991 – Solo Exhibition, Museum of Anastasia and Marina Tsvetaevy, Alexandrov, Russia. 1991 – Solo Exhibition. Osuuskuntamuotoinen nettigalleria. Suomeksi, Finland. 1992 – Art Installation Silence, Group Art Visual and Musical