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On the work of the artist George Shishkina abroad in recent years writing more and more. Prestigious newspapers and magazines devote his paintings serious analytical articles. They always celebrated masters focus on rights, on the inner content of the individual, on her mission on earth.

Georgy Shishkin wrote a lot. Being in constant creative search, he tries his artistic methods available to convey to each of the audience even the slightest movement of the human soul. His paintings are profound and poetic. These are all the fabric cycle "Russian Dreams".

Launched back in Russia, this cycle is most fully realized in France. Although, as noted by many critics as a spiritual pillar for the artist were and are the form and humanistic traditions of the Russian land. The characteristic time, sufficiently disclosing George Shishkina views on life and creativity - the artist's refusal (with all constraint in the media, an indispensable companion of creativity) of tempting the cash plan offers the owner of one of the galleries of Paris. This proposal was the fact that George and his wife Tatiana was provided apartment in Paris, all his paintings were bought immediately, but on condition that the artist would write to Paris. "And I have at the time was working on a continuation of" Russian Dreams ", - says Georgy Shishkin. - It is here that have developed many of my thoughts about the Russian, the Russian soul, spirituality and our spirituality. I think that happened in Europe is not quite true of the many Russian terms. I wanted to be honest, try to correct it. "

For George Shishkina truly Russian - is not so much daring and strong, sometimes reckless, but by-Yesenin "unspeakable and gentle. Such is the credo of his Russian dream.

"There is something powerful its gentleness, that is, leaks, shines in the frescoes of Andrei Rublev, - says the artist. - Look in the eyes of his saints, its prophets and the righteous. Immediately noticeable how much they differ from the images of Byzantine art (the same Theophanes the Greek - Andrei Rublev's teacher), which gave us the canons, the right and the installation of the first Russian artists. For those living Rublyovskie frescoes echoed and respond to subsequent generations of Russian artists. Echo is then die out, it became louder, but never disappeared and will not disappear.

Author: Vladimir Mekhontsev, sob. corr. "DM", Paris