The favorite genre of the naive artist Dmitry Zaliznyak was the landscape. In his paintings, he depicted the views of those natural areas that he had visited himself and those that he fantasized about.
Naive art or the art of non-professionals, as a genre took shape in the 20th century. Its followers do not follow the rules of academic painting, but they render emotions, simplicity and openness of view in their paintings.
In his paintings, Zaliznyak gradually created his own universe, using memorable natural images: Far Eastern hills, a pine forest, and river confluences. For each of them, he often found a simplified, but expressive form.
The artist painted ‘On Guard’ in 1993. On the canvas, he depicted a young deer standing on the edge of a coniferous forest. The animal has cocked its ears and carefully peers beyond the pictorial space. According to the artist’s idea, the deer protects its native land from uninvited guests.
At the feet of the animal, a dense forest begins. There are tall straight coniferous trees with very short boughs. Unusual flowers grow on the path, and pink clouds float over the deer’s head in the sunset sky. Nearby, three blue rivers flow around the hills into one lake.
The search for paradise is one of the important subjects in the work of naive artists and the main one in the works of Dmitry Zaliznyak. In the painting ‘On Guard’, he depicted a calm and quiet idyllic land, which is guarded by the protective Deer.
Naive art or the art of non-professionals, as a genre took shape in the 20th century. Its followers do not follow the rules of academic painting, but they render emotions, simplicity and openness of view in their paintings.
In his paintings, Zaliznyak gradually created his own universe, using memorable natural images: Far Eastern hills, a pine forest, and river confluences. For each of them, he often found a simplified, but expressive form.
The artist painted ‘On Guard’ in 1993. On the canvas, he depicted a young deer standing on the edge of a coniferous forest. The animal has cocked its ears and carefully peers beyond the pictorial space. According to the artist’s idea, the deer protects its native land from uninvited guests.
At the feet of the animal, a dense forest begins. There are tall straight coniferous trees with very short boughs. Unusual flowers grow on the path, and pink clouds float over the deer’s head in the sunset sky. Nearby, three blue rivers flow around the hills into one lake.
The search for paradise is one of the important subjects in the work of naive artists and the main one in the works of Dmitry Zaliznyak. In the painting ‘On Guard’, he depicted a calm and quiet idyllic land, which is guarded by the protective Deer.
