Ely Michajlovitch Bielutin, Russian, 1925 to 2012, oil painting on board depicting an abstract female portrait, 1986. Signed and dated lower right. Ely Bielutin was a Russian visual artist and art theoretician, the founder of The New Reality artistic academy. Bielutin graduated from the Surikov Moscow Art Institute where he studied under representatives of the Russian avant-garde such as Aristarch Lentulov and Pavel Kuznetsov. In 1948 Bielutin founded The New Reality artistic academy. In 1964 he relocated the academy to Abramtsevo, in the outskirts of Moscow. In 1962, a comprehensive exhibition to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Union of Artists was held at the Central Exhibition Hall Manez. The works of Bielutins disciples constituted a large part of the exhibition. In 1991, a large retrospective of the artists members of the New Reality School took place in Manez with a comprehensive catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition. Ely Bielutin was one of the first exponents of Russian abstract art. Having gone through quasi-Expressionist period, the artist developed his own version of abstract idiom module painting partially influenced by Western abstract paintings he saw during the exhibition in Moscow in 1957. According to Beliutins Theory of Universal Contact, art is the means of bringing the state of balance into the relationship of man and nature. One of a kind artwork.