“Painting is poetry that you can see” (Leonardo da Vinci)
The art exhibition of famous Vologda’s resident, Honoured Artist of Russia Yuri Korobov was opened in the conference hall of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve in late February. It presents over 50 paintings. Every work combines the artist’s emotional temperament with the essence of the natural image. First of all, we should point out a deep analysis of the depiction with the help of painting means that have their own view based on the traditions.
All these deeply personal pictures, such as “Haymaking”, “Give me Your Blessing” (St. Kirill Belozersky), “St. Nil Sorsky”, and others, preserve the wonderful world that spreads love for the native land and kindness to people for us, for the future. In his creative activity, the artist managed to feel the Russian spirit and all the good that our people had.
Yuri Korobov himself said: “If you want to understand an artist, go to the country of his childhood. These are Goethe’s words. In the childhood, the world of land seemed enormous, trees were as high as the sky, the light in the window of the native village at night, the warmth of the parents’ house – this is what we left and where we always want to return. The brightest pictures from my childhood come back. These are the life milestones that left deep impressions. The images of the bygone days, nature, love, beauty and spiritual earthly power disturb me as the man and the artist”.
Yuri Korobov is a recognized master of modern fine art, an outstanding ingenious successor of the Russian artistic traditions. The artist has a unique sense of colour by nature. He has his own pictorial tradition and expressive means that meet the Russian national spirit with their graphic style. The works of Yuri Korobov are filled with spirituality, festivity, optimistic colour and composition solution. The artist develops the best traditions of Russian and European arts of the first third of the 20th century.
The works of Yuri Korobov are kept in the collections of the museums of Vologda, Cherepovets, Murmansk, Ustyuzhna, Belozersk, Vytegra and other towns of the region, the Directorate of Exhibitions of the Union of Russian Artists (Moscow), the Museum of Modern Landscape (Plyos), the Russian Academy of Arts and the Ministry of Culture of the RF (Moscow), and in private collections in Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Serbia, the USA and Taiwan.
The exhibition will be open in the conference hall of the museum till April 30.
“Give me Your Blessing”
“St. Nil Sorsky”
