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Leads through the waves and mist of the moon my lonely way

Maximilian Alexandrovich Voloshin • Painting, 1929, 32×17 cm
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About the artwork
Art form: Painting
Subject and objects: Landscape
Style of art: Symbolism
Technique: Watercolor
Materials: Paper
Date of creation: 1929
Size: 32×17 cm
Artwork in collection: My collection Tatyana Somova
Artwork in selections: 21 selections

Description of the artwork «Leads through the waves and mist of the moon my lonely way»

In 20 years, in a terrible, hungry, dangerous years, Voloshin writes a lot of watercolors, 5-6 a day, often forgetting about the poems, and articles. Mother, already sick and hassling max small, home attacks, watercolors takes seriously and considers it a personal whim of his son. Articles and poems – it's another thing for coffee fees somehow, but can live and feed sometimes neighbors and friends.

The nagging mother, the very Great, who was the head of the House of the poet, the wise and stern mother-progenitress, Voloshin sees now bravely and philosophically. And at every opportunity goes to the workshop. Through the four Windows in it, filled with light and blue. The Windows can not see the shore, only an endless sea and endless sky. Max is not needed plein air, he paints landscapes without nature, reshaping the memories of Shorena feet elevation in the Crimean paintings of the spirit of this land, to picture its essence. He learned to write from memory for a long time, when the First world war and any artist painting from life, could be declared a spy. And this war presented the remaining method for Voloshin favorite. Walking on the ground, the scent of the herbs began bathing him instead of sketches.

Memories of Voloshin sometimes like a fairy tale, the stories about him - a cleverly constructed hoax, or a poetic image, but all of it can be trusted blindly. This is the real Voloshin, igniting herbs with a touch of the hands and soothing the pain with the same hand. Violent fantasy friends-poets, or special unexplainable gift? It does not matter. And in the history of tissue paper. No matter whether the truth Max was making model landscapes out of tissue paper and cardboard or made up a story on the go: "...this paper, crumpled in a special way, creating soft, sleek slopes, among which are spots of mist floated like feathers. These models came swamps, streams, stagnant water and low, swollen clouds, and when he took the thick paper is created mountains towering steep, sharp cliffs, frightening chasms" (from the memoirs of Maria Vorobyova-Stebelskaya).

The geographical accuracy of the landscape painter does not care. It is important to study the coexistence of natural elements in space and transmit their essential texture, their meaning. No matter what kind of mountain Crimea writing, if you know all about the Crimea. "The landscape is supposed to depict the earth where you can walk, and write the sky that can fly, that is, the landscapes should be the line of the horizon, through which I want to move, and should feel the air that I want breathe, and in the sky those rising currents, which can fly in a glider" wrote the Voloshin in 1930.

In 1927, when the Great will not be in the house of the poet will be a new hostess, 173 watercolor Voloshin will see first Moscow State Academy of artistic Sciences in a solo exhibition a few years the Dutch and the British.

Author: Anna Sidelnikova
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