Amateur artist Sergey Yablokov was born in 1957 at the Tabza station in the Kostroma region. He graduated from the Kurgan State University and worked at the Kurgan Machine-Building Plant in the tool-making, non-standard, and press-assembly facilities until 2005. In 2006, Yablokov moved to Yekaterinburg.
Dance of the Old Altai Cedar
Creation period
2010
Place of сreation
Yekaterinburg
Dimensions
49,5x60 cm
Technique
oil, canvas on fiberboard
Collection
Exhibition
0
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Sergey Yablokov
Dance of the Old Altai Cedar
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Sergey Yablokov. Photograph: ‘Gamayun’ Museum Center
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The artist often traveled to unusual nature reserves, he was fond of photography, and created his first oil painting in 1989.
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Of course, I did not have any training; I never even attended a drawing club. But I always had a desire to see my native Kostroma landscape more often, and there were no high-quality color photos then.
Artist Sergey Yablokov talking about his first work
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Since then, Yablokov began to study art independently. He read books on the subject, improved his technical skills, visited exhibitions, and communicated with professional artists. He took up landscape painting on a regular basis only after 1994.
Sergey Yablokov painted ‘Dance of the Old Altai Cedar’ in 2010, after his first trip to the Altai region. For his painting the artist used a canvas, which he stretched on a fiberboard. It is convenient to paint on such hard and durable canvases outside the workshop, for example, in the open air or on a hike.
Yablokov told about how he came up with the idea of the picture,
Sergey Yablokov painted ‘Dance of the Old Altai Cedar’ in 2010, after his first trip to the Altai region. For his painting the artist used a canvas, which he stretched on a fiberboard. It is convenient to paint on such hard and durable canvases outside the workshop, for example, in the open air or on a hike.
Yablokov told about how he came up with the idea of the picture,
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I ‘spied’ the plot when I first went hiking to the Altai mountains. Our tourist group was climbing for several hours along a fairly steep (altitude difference of about 600 meters) taiga trail wet from frequent rains. Together with my friend, we were walking a little ahead of the main group, saw a small forest meadow, dropped our backpacks, and quickly began to prepare a campfire site for cooking dinner. There was no time to look around there. And after lunch, looking around, I noticed that I was sitting on a large rootstock of a very old cedar. This cedar spread its branches so unusually that, in combination with its legs bent at the knees (roots), it seemed that it was dancing some kind of rollicking dance. This cedar, old only in years, is young at heart. This is how I displayed it in my picture.
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Dance of the Old Altai Cedar
Creation period
2010
Place of сreation
Yekaterinburg
Dimensions
49,5x60 cm
Technique
oil, canvas on fiberboard
Collection
Exhibition
0
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