On the channel "Culture" was broadcast, devoted to the exhibition of watercolors Pustovoitova the Research Institute for Restoration:
http://www.newstube.ru/media/vystavk...a-pustovojtova
"Architectural monuments of the ancient city became head of the theme of creativity Seeds Pustovoitova. He recorded the ancient temples, and create their images. Many of the artists were not only in museums in Russia and Europe, but also in private collections. During the life of many watercolors he gave Novgorod centered culture, "Music of antiquity." Some of these works represented in the exhibition, which opened at the Exhibition Hall of the Research Institute of Restoration. They say, "News kultruy."
Story of the picture to the architectural landscape, from oil painting to watercolors - so formed the artist's career Pustovoitova seeds. He was interested in only one landscape - the types of ancient Novgorod. This city has become his second home. A series of papers he could devote only one church. The monument was the artist a constant object of observation. Semen Pustovoitov wanted to create thousands of papers devoted to the Novgorod churches. The artist did not have the studio and he wrote them from nature. Bad weather could not stop him. In some watercolors seen a drop of rain, melting snow from the divorce, the patterns of frost.
"He was interested in the images of these churches at different times, at different times of day, in different weather conditions. That is, he saw them transforming ", - says the chairman of the Association of Restorers Yamschikov Sawa.
In Novgorod, Simon Pustovoitov was during the Great Patriotic War. In war he was a sapper and receiving a concussion, came for treatment at the hospital, which was not far from the ruined city. First he wrote the ruins of temples, then - the stages of restoration. Many of the watercolors he brought a friend, Vladimir Povetkin, the director of the center of Novgorod musical values, and said, "come in handy." Now, Povetkin takes it as a testament to the artist. "He saw them in person and through the state of the church he sought to portray the human soul. Therefore, there is nothing around. Only the church, nothing more ", - says Vladimir Povetkin.
All my life Simon Pustovoitov declaration of love to Novgorod, and that love was mutual. In 1994 the artist became an honorary citizen of Novgorod the Great. "