Вложение 96485
"... The paradox is that I have always felt themselves to be Europeans, the realization that I was a Russian painter, came to me just in France. Every country has - its own characteristics. In Russia, for example, touch the trees to the sky is not as in Western Europe, do not float the clouds, the air is different. As a child I spent much time in the woods and garden, we have grass - and they grow differently, and that they engender popular designs, patterns and embroidery. all relatives and merges into something in common, and affects the sensible soul of an artist, which is formed in this environment. And that something is deposited in mind: this was only important that it did not disappear under the influence of seductive beautiful discoveries in other regions, which may well occupy the imagination of the artist, to make people forget where he was born. I, thanks to my ancestors had the good fortune to live in nature: garden, garden, work continued on the ground. Tarkovsky is such a moment: in the garden table, the wind shakes the bushes and falls off the table lamp, the branches bend, Twilight. It is so familiar and close, this magical and inexplicable moment associated with the magic of nature. Despite the fact that I went through all the stages, and hobbies of the European school, I was sitting inside a feeling that has to pass through all the rest, and France began to appear the picture on a Russian theme .
I wanted to express the spiritual essence of the people, then filling that is inherent in our land. I think that the Russian character is closer still gentleness, daydreaming, rather than rollicking and breadth of revelry.
In a series of "Russian Dreams" are also very important for me to work under the general title "Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh. They embody the dream of the Russian people about the society, full of universal harmony.
I tried to create, find your beautiful language. The ways in which I work with pastels, other artists have not yet met. I get a different surface, allowing the layers to make and maintain the transparency of layers of pastel, which is usually used as the covering material. This technique allows me to write pastels large formats "- Georgy Shishkin, excerpts from the interview," Russian Thought ", Paris.
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