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The birch dance
Vladimir Vasilyevich Plastinin • Painting, 2011, 35.8×41.5 cm
Description of the artwork «The birch dance»
Somewhere in the vastness of the Vladimir land, seemingly near the village of Mstera, the artist saw an unusual landscape. Due to some natural reasons, the birches took unnaturally curved forms. Apparently, the artist was struck by such strangely curved trunks and decided to share his surprise with the viewer.
Trees for Vladimir Plastinin have always been inspiring objects to depict: especially any unusual species. Shape and colour of trunks and branches, bark pattern became a source of creative search in solving the tasks he set himself in the process of creating paintings. To show the perfect beauty of nature - God's creation - that was the aim for a true artist, and Vladimir Plastinin undoubtedly strived for it in each of his works. In this respect trees were especially important for him, having become real "actors" in many of his landscapes.
And now being in such an unusual forest, the artist certainly could not pass by this peculiar "natural phenomenon", originally creating a small watercolor sketch, later embodied in paintings.
It captures the moment of the beginning of summer with its bright festive blooms and heavenly blue.
It seems that the viewer finds himself on some kind of forest dance floor, and in front of him, as if in a still frame, frozen in bizarre movements figures of the dancers. The artist succeeded in creating a moment of such tension in his work, as if the music was interrupted just for a moment and was about to strike again. And it doesn't matter that it's not people, but trees, the sense of dance and expression never leaves him. The atmosphere of the riot of summer nature is conveyed magnificently - everything grows, blooms, rejoices and exults. And impressionistic manner, in which the picture was created, helped to express most vividly the feelings of the artist, shocked by this outlandish forest scene.
The work won 3rd place in the International Exhibition-Contest of Contemporary Art "Art Week in the Czech Republic" in 2020 (contest: The Age of Avant-garde, oil painting section, nomination: Impressionism).
Trees for Vladimir Plastinin have always been inspiring objects to depict: especially any unusual species. Shape and colour of trunks and branches, bark pattern became a source of creative search in solving the tasks he set himself in the process of creating paintings. To show the perfect beauty of nature - God's creation - that was the aim for a true artist, and Vladimir Plastinin undoubtedly strived for it in each of his works. In this respect trees were especially important for him, having become real "actors" in many of his landscapes.
And now being in such an unusual forest, the artist certainly could not pass by this peculiar "natural phenomenon", originally creating a small watercolor sketch, later embodied in paintings.
It captures the moment of the beginning of summer with its bright festive blooms and heavenly blue.
It seems that the viewer finds himself on some kind of forest dance floor, and in front of him, as if in a still frame, frozen in bizarre movements figures of the dancers. The artist succeeded in creating a moment of such tension in his work, as if the music was interrupted just for a moment and was about to strike again. And it doesn't matter that it's not people, but trees, the sense of dance and expression never leaves him. The atmosphere of the riot of summer nature is conveyed magnificently - everything grows, blooms, rejoices and exults. And impressionistic manner, in which the picture was created, helped to express most vividly the feelings of the artist, shocked by this outlandish forest scene.
The work won 3rd place in the International Exhibition-Contest of Contemporary Art "Art Week in the Czech Republic" in 2020 (contest: The Age of Avant-garde, oil painting section, nomination: Impressionism).
