Nicholas Chistiakov, a name significant to the contemporary art industry, is venerated for the abstractness and deconstructionist perspective in his paintings. Among others in his oeuvre range of paintings, the King of Roulette painting deserves special mention. The Belarusian-American painter released this masterpiece in the year 2013, towards the fag end. Chistiakov’s works are greatly influenced by the masters, such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and the likes. Nicholas Chistiakov's black paintings are particularly worth a notice because of the exceptional symbolic value that they hide behind the apparent.

The King of Roulette painting captures a regular scene from a casino, but with a difference. Two figures stand out in the picture, claiming the attention of the onlookers with great urgency. A topless woman and the king depicted as a toothy monster grab the attention at the first glance. Behind stands a group of men with red smears on their face and invariably grim faces. It is evident from the painting that the man in the center - the king, is the winner while the dismal crowd behind are the ones losing out to the former. The crown in his head confirms his position. Nicholas Chistiakov's black paintings, like this one, employs expressionism and surrealism techniques to bring out the effect. Use of surrealism gave the painting a plane of its own above the realistic realm. Thus, even though the artist paints a casino scene, the presence of a naked woman figure, the monster casino king and the dark paintings in the background create a phantasmagoric condition.

The painting is figurative, because of the use of symbolic elements which give the painting a meaning of its own. Contemporary, this piece of art has a figurative composition that uses multi-figures to make the point of the image. This 60 x 60 inches oil painting has earned the attention of the crowd because of the inner implications of the work. Nicholas Chistiakov's black paintings and all others have symbolic underlay that require a penetrative glance to figure. The King of Roulette painting has been interpreted in ways where readings have been made of the overall meaning of the composition. Critics have named it the gamble of life, from a broader perspective. Dominant colors in the painting are pink, red and black. Painting skill of Nicholas Chistiakov's the King of Roulette is reflected in the realistic look of the chandeliers painted overhead. The details in the picture are remarkable revealing the brilliant observation skills of the painter.

Nicholas Chistiakov specializes in paintings of different kinds, cloud painting, nude painting, murder painting, black painting, etc. being his specialties. The painter draws with inspirations from life, chiefly. Having seen life through the sweet and bitter phases (owing to his time in the mental asylum), the artist sees life and things through the eyes of a realist. When brushing the many perspectives of an ordinary thing down to his canvas, he uses new and classic techniques of paintings to create a pictorial analogy that art loyalists are meant to decrypt.

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