Exhibition of works by Vitaly ORLOVSKY Automatic translate

In the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts at 21 Prechistenka Street, an exhibition of works by the famous painter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, and Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Vitaly Orlovsky, opens.

Vitaly Abramovich Orlovsky was born in 1931 in the city of Smyrna (Turkey). In 1953 he graduated from the Moscow Art College “In Memory of 1905”. He joined the Moscow Union of Artists in 1959. Since 1955, he has participated in numerous exhibitions: youth, Moscow, All-Russian, personal and so on.

V. Orlovsky, a recognized Moscow painter, author of beautiful landscapes and still lifes, began his creative career as an artist of thematic paintings. Over time, landscapes of central Russia increasingly began to appear at the exhibitions of Orlovsky. The artist lives and works in the Tver and Ryazan regions for a long time.

Orlovsky is a follower of the traditions of the Union of Moscow Artists - his work is not fluent sketches, but completed paintings. A dense writing, a rough texture of paint, a relief brushstroke are his ways to show “color music”, liveliness and beauty of a seemingly not always attractive landscape. The artist conveys with all freshness and sharpness the immediate impression of what he saw.

Orlovsky has a special taste for color. Few people manage to express the mood of nature in the language of colors. His canvases reveal all the color richness of the natural look - multicolor overflows of snow shining in the sun, a golden veil of autumn earth, lush flowering fields, spring melting of snow and the awakening of life.

The artist expresses a sincere feeling of enthusiasm for the beauty of late autumn with fallen foliage in the painting "Autumn Fields". Many shades and reflections of golden yellow in the foliage of trees, light gray, bluish and lilac are united by a common gray-bluish tone. Each local color is included in the overall harmony, conveying the atmosphere of a mild autumn day.

The unusually beautiful black-turquoise starry night in the film "Abandoned House" inspires alarming feelings, sensitively captured by the artist. Closely observing the variability of the states of nature, analyzing the effect of lighting on an object, one feels a desire to convey a sensation of unsteadiness of impressions and at the same time emphasizes the author’s love for the image of materiality and reality.

That particular attention that the author pays to the transitional state not only of nature, but also of a certain time of day, we can see in his large-scale work “The Convent”. The canvas depicts a white-stone monastery, standing at the bend of the river and illuminated by the rays of the setting sun. The buildings of churches and bell towers rise above fragile tree branches and small wooden houses, and their reflections are visible on the dark surface of the river surface. In the translucent blue sky - evening golden clouds, among the shades of which are yellow, pink and purple. A real extravaganza of color. The artist compares light, almost transparent and darker intense masses of color, the space between which is filled with intermediate tones.

The scattered light often becomes the main element in the landscapes of Oryol. It fills the entire space of the canvas, penetrates into every corner, smooths edges, outlines and gives rise to a mood of unusual softness and freshness of a winter day in the work “Winter Ornament”. To convey the state of cold snow, the artist highlights his palette. The image of white weeping birches against the background of snow and a bright sky is a coloristic task brilliantly solved by the painter.

People’s artist of the Russian Federation V.N. Zabelin wrote about the master’s work: “The artist’s works seem to say that there is nothing more beautiful than the community of man and nature. Everything else is secondary… Orlovsky is convinced that the Russian landscape (a unique phenomenon in the world) will live and develop, being one of the foundations of the spiritual life of our time. ”

The exposition included more than 20 paintings of different years, which reflect the main stages of the master’s work.