"Voskresnaya Shkola" newspaper N11(227) 2002, "Dar otvetstvennosti" ('The Gift of Responsibility") Valentina Moreva:

Ivan Loukianov works in different genres; his interests are vast - painting, print, monotypy, collage, etc

I don't know who can be considered as a venerable artist - this can be both an artist who is luckily well known to public and someone who has achieved a lot in his creative work but is not yet well known. The second is more preferable.

Ivan Loukianov's paintings reflect different themes. Tiny neat Dutch houses are painted on a small canvas filled up with orange light, all this combined with an irreproachable, even dryish composition... But the light on the roofs of the houses is such good and warm and tasty like an orange that your sole (not even your mind) becomes full of it, warms up and you want to step inside this silent space of the painting that reminds of childhood and warm summer days… Flowers, wonderful flowers - and if you can say this about flowers - such original and distinctive!.. Winter landscapes… sea, … fishermen

 

"Dekorativnoe iskusstvo", newspaer N 4, 2001. "Zapechatlennoje vremya Ivana Loukianova" "Ivan Loukianov's Rendered Time"

Judging by his exhibition, Loukianov is mastering the language of the Russian icon that represents an aesthetic system of expressive composition techniques bound with a distinct meaning. One can feel the artist is interested in the inner world of the icon and is eager to understand it from the modern point of view. This opens great possibilities and perspectives for any artist.