In the second half of the 19th century, Russia's greatest poet Nekrasov wrote in his famous poem "Meditations at the Gate" in 1858, when describing the Volga River, he said: "Walking up the Volga River, on the great Russian River, that echoes. Whose moan is it? This moan is called singing in our case... Volga! Volga! In the high waters of spring, you swept the fields, the vast expanse..." The Volga is the mother river of Russia, which originates in the center of the north of Russia. The largest river in Europe in the low mountains of the plateau, with a drainage area equivalent to the combined territory of Germany, France and the United Kingdom. The word Volga itself has implicitly become a symbol of the Russian nation, and has always been favored by Russian writers, poets and painters. In 2006, a young Russian oil painter created an oil painting "The Return of the Volga River" which reproduces the natural beauty of the Volga, which made people's attention shift to the realistic paintings of contemporary Russian painters. Once this work came out, it was highly praised by the Russian painting circle. The author of the oil painting is one of the representatives of the new generation of contemporary Russian painters - Dmitry.
Dmitry, born in 1972, is a member of the Union of Painters in St. Petersburg, Russia. He graduated from the Sogorov studio of the Repin Academy of Fine Arts, and is good at sketching. His paintings are full of passion for life and thinking about the relationship between man and nature. Young painters continue the unique national traditional culture of Russia, and fully display their profound artistic heritage, superb artistic skills, and distinct realism concepts with brushes. Their works are collected by many private collectors in Germany, France, the United States and China. His works still shine with the thick and bright brilliance of Russian painting in the current encirclement of Western painting.
Dmitry yearned for the real life of the Russian countryside and created a large number of rural landscape paintings to express the life of ordinary farmers and fishermen. His paintings are all the life scenes he saw with his own eyes. He traveled all over Lake Larda and went deep into the lives of ordinary people along the Volga River. The author has his own personal experience in the creation of "The Volga Shepherd's Return", and the work exudes the fragrant and earthy atmosphere of the vast Russian land. The artist's creation seeks to find natural colors in natural beauty, expresses his own feelings with his unique painting talent and keen observation, and shows his extraordinary artistic creation talent in the Russian contemporary painting circle.
Herdsmanship on the Volga River shows the perfect harmony between nature and people and livestock with ingenious composition. The artist uses the life scenes of ordinary people on the ancient Russian rural land on the banks of the Volga River as the theme of creation, showing the life of ordinary farmers and herdsmen. and yearning for the future. The author pays attention to the use of bright colors in the creation, and the smear is full of confidence and generous, which fully demonstrates the coordinated use of light, color and composition. In the painting, the peasant woman, wearing the turban most often worn by Russians, returns from grazing against the sunset, the cold red light slants on her face, and follows her beloved on a golden land and among the silent weeds. The old cow returned with joy. The clouds in the sky floated behind her, setting off the tall images of the peasant woman and the old cow. She could not hear the flow of the river or the chirping of the birds, only the tall weeds were swaying slightly, the cool red tone The light and the glow of the blue sky illuminate the whole picture. In the painting, there is perseverance in the work and the solidity of the harvest. In terms of visual perception, readers can look at it intuitively. The lush weeds and the gentle and comfortable spread of the vast fields make people feel the author's pastoral interest and natural ideals.
Dmitry summed up the material world of pastoral life with meadows, peasant women, and old cows. He painted the reality of life, but also showed the spiritual world of the painter. The author insists on finding the source of art, which lies in the inner truth of the painter. The shape and color of "The Volga Shepherd's Return" conveys his emotions and thoughts very well. The painter not only imitates the material appearance of nature, but more importantly, depicts the inner life spirit of nature and the "truth" of the essence of all things. Dmitry was able to grasp the inner world of a peasant woman in the real environment of the Russian countryside, conveying her understanding of nature and her feelings for her motherland. From the composition point of view, the picture gives people a feeling of emptiness, the lush grass stretches to the sky, the heaven and the earth are integrated, so it highlights an idyllic atmosphere, which makes people feel a lot of leisure, joy and meaning of life. Stop thinking. The wind blew softly, kissing her face, and the open fence of the nearby farmhouse was her home. Dmitry's painting seems to be humming an idyll: the peasant woman and her partner, walking through the field, the cloud of love is just above her head, she throws herself into the field, because she loves the land, seizes A gust of wind will leave the land, but still feet are on the fallen leaves, watching them fall, everything belongs to the life of this land, the once green youth, once the sound of flowers blooming. In the painting, the author entrusts the ideal of life in his heart, just as the modern Russian poet Yesenin expressed in his lyric poem: "...you should live a relaxed and simple life, and you should have no contest between favor and shame. Therefore, the sky above the woods can I was stunned by the whistling wind, the silver-white wind." Therefore, "The Return of the Volga River" conveys the author's voice of love for the motherland, and writes a poem that praises the simplicity, purity and quietness of the people's life.
Dmitry's works show the organic integration of image and spirit, represent the development trend of contemporary Russian painting, and have a very strong artistic shock and appeal. Whether it is natural scenery or characters in the painting, the author's brushstrokes and colors are expressed with a high degree of realism. The reasonable combination of points and faces of the characters and scenery fully reflects the rigorous conception and superb techniques of contemporary young Russian painters. And the unique style expresses the author's deep understanding and love for life and nature.
"The Return of the Volga River" artistically shows that in the modern society of Russia, farmers and herdsmen in some areas are still following the ancient life of farming and animal husbandry. Pushkin once said in the poem "The Countryside": "Hello, the desolate and remote corner, the place of tranquility, labor and inspiration, where the river of my invisible years flows, flows into the embrace of happiness and forgetfulness... Deep, cool , hundreds of flowers are blooming, I love this lawn, full of fragrant lawns." I love this ancient land deeply, watch people's lives on the land with deep affection, and lock his artistic eyes on the painter on the Volga River. Today he Is the idyll in your heart still the same as Pushkin?
Facing nature, life and art sincerely is a long-standing spiritual tradition of Russian painters. Dmitry has inherited this spiritual tradition. Concise, will bring readers to ponder.
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