It is rumored that the theme for this work was suggested to the artist by actor Sylvester Stallone.
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Steele’s noted painting “Desire of Light” appeared on the cover of actress/model/singer/fashion designer Milla Jovovich’s 1993 album “Divine Comedy.”
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The young artist furthered his professional education at the Surikov Art Institute of the Soviet Academy of Arts in Moscow, studying under the well-known yet controversial painter Ilya Glazunov.
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Steele’s fusion of realistically rendered forms with allegorical elements almost impose his personal world on the viewer, resulting in strongly metaphorical imagery as in his 20 foot “Soul of the Hero,” executed for a private residence in LA, and his depiction of Mick Fleetwood in “Blue Rose.”
Among the first group of painters to join the CAC included Tim Solliday, Bill Stout, Stephen Mirich, Steve Houston, Dan Goozee, Dan Pinkham,Sunny Apinchapong, Richard Rackus (b. 1922) and the Russian painters, Alexander Orlov and Alexey Steele.
Leonid Steele is the father of Alexey Steele, a Russian Realist School painter residing in Los Angeles, California.
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