A sunny summer day in Oryol neighborhood with the name Andriabuzh, which stuck to this place by the beginning of the 20th century. The landscape with a lake, which occupies most of the canvas space, is painted decoratively and technicolor and resembles a fabulous carpet, bright and festive. The artist uses yellow-green, lilac, light blue paints, almost without mixing them with other colors.
Tempera painting, so beloved by Andrei Ilyich in the 1970s, when he got a taste for this ‘difficult and at the same time surprisingly noble technique’, could manifest itself more decoratively, to use open, light colors. Painted immediately with a thick layer, the paint makes the stroke even more voluminous. Tempera is transparent, active in color, never black. Therefore, there is not a single dark spot on the canvas, everything is filled with color and light.
Fragrant herbs with recognizable lilac lupins, yellow buttercups, playful bells, blue-eyed cornflowers and white Siberian rose are in the foreground. Depicted with small multi-colored strokes, this floral carpet conveys all the diversity of Oryol region’s flora. The water surface of the lake in the background, painted in light blue, is full of light shiny splashes. Volumetric, standing separately spreading trees gratify with fresh juicy greenery, filled with the sun. Even the ground here seems to be filled with sunbeams: purple, lilac, ocher-reddish…
The slope in the background is also ocher-reddish, covered with a forest that rises to the sky, painted in warm colors. The grass, lit by the summer sun, is endowed with bright reddish hues. The blue sky with white fluffy fleece of clouds is real and tangible, with a beautiful matte velvety surface. The sun is not visible, but the picture is filled with it from the inside.
A revel of color creates a special flavor and joyful mood. “With the blue eyes of your lakes, you are looking at me, Russia…” - wrote Vasily Katanov, the Oryol poet. The painter admires his dearest Oryol land. The picture sounds like a hymn to the mighty forces of nature and the joy of life, where people are part of the universe, living in unity with trees, flowers, grass.
Tempera painting, so beloved by Andrei Ilyich in the 1970s, when he got a taste for this ‘difficult and at the same time surprisingly noble technique’, could manifest itself more decoratively, to use open, light colors. Painted immediately with a thick layer, the paint makes the stroke even more voluminous. Tempera is transparent, active in color, never black. Therefore, there is not a single dark spot on the canvas, everything is filled with color and light.
Fragrant herbs with recognizable lilac lupins, yellow buttercups, playful bells, blue-eyed cornflowers and white Siberian rose are in the foreground. Depicted with small multi-colored strokes, this floral carpet conveys all the diversity of Oryol region’s flora. The water surface of the lake in the background, painted in light blue, is full of light shiny splashes. Volumetric, standing separately spreading trees gratify with fresh juicy greenery, filled with the sun. Even the ground here seems to be filled with sunbeams: purple, lilac, ocher-reddish…
The slope in the background is also ocher-reddish, covered with a forest that rises to the sky, painted in warm colors. The grass, lit by the summer sun, is endowed with bright reddish hues. The blue sky with white fluffy fleece of clouds is real and tangible, with a beautiful matte velvety surface. The sun is not visible, but the picture is filled with it from the inside.
A revel of color creates a special flavor and joyful mood. “With the blue eyes of your lakes, you are looking at me, Russia…” - wrote Vasily Katanov, the Oryol poet. The painter admires his dearest Oryol land. The picture sounds like a hymn to the mighty forces of nature and the joy of life, where people are part of the universe, living in unity with trees, flowers, grass.
