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The article tells about St. Petersburg distinctive watercolor painter, Oleg I. Pomerantsev (1949-2012). Master's career is inseparably linked with Russian realism. The artist acts as a successor of fundamental high artistic traditions of realistic art. Working in a landscape genre, Pomerantsev managed to create more than 500 paintings deep in a content and meaning. In his spare time Master developed his own techniques of watercolor art. The entire artist’s works were performed under his impression. He received inspiration on fishing trips, in woods and then at home master reproduced what he saw from memory. Most of his works are in private collections and galleries all around the world. Romantic landscapes of Oleg I. Pomerantsev affect by their transparency, complex color techniques and inexpressible atmosphere, full of air and light. Complex colour manners and inexpressible atmosphere full of air and light. Graphic works by the artist, executed in pencil on paper are very interesting too. Sometimes master was fond of drawing in details, so such works were not suitable for watercolors. In his watercolor works Pomerantsev did only hardly visible pencil drawing. The artist did not specialized in graphics so he ruled out his pencil sketches as unsuitable, but the wife of the artist has kept them. Watercolorist Oleg I. Pomerantsev is unknown to Russian art-critics. In view of that, the article was tasked to give for the first time an art rating to the artist’s creation, to make an art analysis of his works from the cycle "The Karelian isthmus" dedicated to the settlement of Kirillovskoe in Vyborg district. The study of creativity of Oleg Pomerantsev by professional critics will allow to expand qualitatively the history of watercolor painting of Russia
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Virtuoso of prints, Mikhail Matorin, is undeservedly forgotten today both by ordinary spectators and by professional art critics. Twenty-five years of fruitful work of the artist have made a great contribution into the development of the domestic drawing. The album of linoleum prints called "Vyborg", created as a result of his staying on the finnish front in june 1944, takes up a special place in his creative work. Vyborg has attracted Matorin by the originality of its northern architectural landscape and the severe beauty of forms. The town was empty; it was left by Finnish residents. Bright sunny days of June with white nights even more emphasized the epic expressiveness of architectural ensembles of the city. Language of Matorin’s linocuts is sharp, clear and emotional. Sonority of strokes and rhythm of lines are in harmony with the noble colors. Matorin’s prints were made on the basis of front-line sketches. The color linocut printmaker used up to 12 boards, achieving the effect of real painting. Matorin’s engravings are remarkable for its special harmony of tones, terseness of colours. This article is aimed at the introduction into the scientific usage of russian artcriticism new unique artistic and history- cultural material, revealing features of creativity and way of life of the engraver, M.V.Matorin. The author for the first time in Russian art-criticism examines and gives an appreciation of the album of linoleum prints "Vyborg" (1944), which is a valuable documentary material
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VYBORG’S PERIOD OF A GREAT RUSSIAN ARTIST NICHOLAS ROERICH
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A Karelian stage in the life of the great Russian artist, Nicholas Roerich, is relatively well-known. However, researchers have not been practically studied the period of residence of the Roerich family in Vyborg. It is known that N. Roerich was friends with the Finnish artist A. Gallen-Kallela, who helped him to remain in Finnish Vyborg in the period of revolutionary events in Russia. From October 1918 to May 1919 the Roerich family lived in Viborg in Ladaunkatu (now Turgenev St.), №8. The painting «Autumn» (1919) was written by the artist during the Vyborg’s period. The painting was created in a fantastic manner which was usual for the artist. Unfortunately, at the moment nothing is known about his other works with views of Vyborg. However, in the catalog of his works, published in the USA in the 1920-es , under the name of each picture is given information about where and when it was created. Thus, under some of the works of the artist is the mark: «Painted in Viborg». So, today we can say about some works of master, which he wrote in Vyborg. In the first place, there are famous paintings of the artist: «Repentance», «Call of the bell. Old Pskov», «Sons of the Heavens», «The heat of the Earth», «Autumn – Vyborg», «Les Miserables (Outcast)», «Treasure» and others. As well, in 1918 at the time of staying the family in Vyborg a number of sketches in "Vyborg Notebook" were made by his son, Svetoslav Roerich, who was then 16 years old. Probably, inexhaustible diligence of Roerich gave a rise to other works with the theme of Vyborg, which scientists do not know because this topic has not been investigated
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