GENIUS TRANSCARPATHIAN painting.
Fedor Manaylo (1910-1978)
One of the giants of the Carpathian painting Fedor Manaylo all his powerful talent of the painter devoted to the Father's land and its proud, wise, talented and industrious people, whom he loved madly and deeply respected. Born in the Carpathian region, the artist has seen his high mission in recreating the spiritual life of his countrymen, their national isolation, with its native impulses of goodness and faith, to decent and happy life.
Of the luminaries of the Carpathian painting Manaylo the only one who did not learn directly from the IM Bokshay and A. Erdelyi. His creative originality was formed from an alloy good apprenticeship training (he graduated from the Prague School of Industrial Art), and signs of distinct identities of folk culture Carpathian highlanders. The artist combines in his work a wonderful gift of a good storyteller and sober realist fiction and bytopisatelya, daydreaming romantic and supervisory analyst. He deliberately chose his path in art has steadily Toril it for several decades, remaining faithful to his artistic program. Her feature - not so much in certain quarters of subjects, those motives, but in the very nature of the author's art, its imaginative sensual fullness.
Manaylo - a true folk artist. He is not just to stick and close to the people, he - an integral, organic part of his people, the spokesman of his thoughts, feelings and hopes. Paintings of the painter - it's half-century history of our region. In them - trembita sounds, ringtones wedding songs, funeral laments, beats newness of life ...
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