"KANEVSKY'S EVERLASTING SPLENDOR!" - Bob Nicks "WHAT WE HAVE SEEN THIS YEAR TOOK OUR BREATH AWAY. WE NEVER THOUGHT THAT MAKING OF SUCH PARADISICAL BEAUTY AND PERFECTION IS POSSIBLE!" - Anne Evans "ALEXANDER KANEVSKY THREE NEW PAINTINGS THIS JANUARY WHICH HE CALLS "RAPHAEL'S WOMEN", INSPIRED BY GREAT RAPHAEL WHOM KANEVSKY ADMIRES AND STUDIED IN DETAILS, KANEVSKY CAME TO SUCH PERFECTION IN RENDERING A HUMAN BODY THAT MADE IT POSSIBLE FORNHIM TO CREATE A SHEER MIRACLE!", - John Havock. Alexander Kanevsky painting "Angel" (detail, 2021, oil on wood, 122 x 61 cm) "This one is inspired by one of Raphael's figures in his painting "Parnas". What inspired me is a juxtaposition of the face and the arms, the original figure is garmented and in a different position of the rest of her body, particularly her legs position of which I changed based on my understanding of plastic art."- Alexander Kanevsky