Such pure artistic passion, not distorted by the touch of glory – flame, burning in obscurity – so much impeccable love for art; Such a wise vision of the world; Such a greedy receptivity; -All this is a sample of the artist’s life, the sample is no less instructive than the creations of the great masters.
K. Chapek, unknown artist
I Met him in Lipetsk. Walking through the streets of this ancient city, I somehow drew attention to the roof of the shed, which the man had croil. Pieces of iron, The roof were painted in different colors and all together resembled Rustic Quilt. Then I found out that Sergey was a new roof. Vladimirovich Kamensky, who is fond of painting and used for painter’s Work paint, cleaned from the palette. Artists call it fuzoj.
Then I could not get acquainted. Suddenly he approached me when I was working in Park over the sketch. Of course, the conversation went about painting. He noted the monotony in Image on my sketch: Under the influence of light on a sunny day grass away becomes warmer, inclined branch on the background of the sky-darker shadow, falling On the grass.
-the correct tone in the landscape defines e
verything. The word “tone” says with a careful shade, with some without clamping, but perceptible relish.
Then Invites me to see him work. And here we sit on the terrace in Woven straw-coloured armchairs. It’s hot in the yard. In an old house with double Walls-the brick outside, inside the tree-coolness. White stucco ceilings. Perfectly smooth edges of the filenok on the doors. In a large window pours golden Light.
First I Looked the pictures hung in all the rooms. Still Life and landscapes. Were Copies with Shishkin. And his sketches Sergey Vladimirovich shows on the terrace, inserting them into a white or black frame.
In his Painting had no desire for a generous color game. It consisted mainly of Three or four colors. The color design is usual: blue sky, yellow rye, Restrained greens of grass. In the foreground white daisies echo with white Clouds. “Original” coloring was absent. seemed different landscapes were written in the same colors. However, perceiving these landscapes cumulatively Inevitably felt their difference. The main colors for the transmission of the air Environment and the sunlight that could be used to determine the state of the Nature and feel the time of day and month. Trees and grass of the June landscape More saturated with green. In landscapes written in August-yellow glare on Lighted greens, instead of the blue.
Clearly Defined and in still lifes local colors, that is own colors Objects that have not been drastically altered by the environmental impact. Transition from Light on things to the shadows passed tactfully without a sharply delineated border and Sharp shift in color. Especially harmonious was the canvas, hanged in the kitchen- Still Life of vegetables, different in color: Antonka milk tone, orange Carrot, soft green cabbage and watermelon with a alabaster, carved wedge Middle.
Craving for Painting in Sergii Vladimirovich was discovered as a child. liked to draw Horses. Painted in the house white Windowsills, for which he was repeatedly caught. I was going to study at the painter. But seventeen years after the tragic incident He hurt his eyes, and the doctors categorically forbade him to engage in painting. Then he acquires the profession of locksmith. During the war years, the Labour Front, Sergey Vladimirovich worked at the Moscow factory. Each rare He devoted a free day to the Tretyakov Gallery. Minutes spent at canvases Alexandra Ivanova, Repina, Levevan and Shishkin are remembered as the most Holiday. These artists have taught him devotion to art.
Sometimes at that time He drew himself. Living then in the Dark Podvali with the album was climbed on Window sill and sketched out the passing figures, the winter landscape outside the window.
Few Lessons of painting he received in his youth from his older brother – Professional artist Alexei Kamensky, known as a poet under the Alias Alexey Lipetsk. These lessons proved to be a bridge between giving Young Sergey and elements of professional knowledge. And the main he gave Nature. She was the closest world to him, and she became the world of his Painting.
But whatever Precise was not a sense of nature, it is not to pass without a set of certain techniques. The richer their choice, the more opportunities to select a combination of them, And not the borrowed world. Sergey Vladimirovich managed to Find the simplest elements on which the pictorial grammar is based. Naïve The artist is disagreement of visions and receptions. In Sergey Vladimirovich’s works There is a correlation. To him more than once came to buy his paintings, he Didn’t sell them. If he saw that the work had not come out, he had nevertheless been The same way as the successful picture.
My sketches were equal to him:
-Do not Be shy, show everything.
I wrote Then still life-fishes and crayfish, bouquets of wild flowers and under the influence of Monet Resorted to the aggravation of color in the shadows. The fish became bright violet, and boiled Crayfish – in exaggerated green reflexes from the sky and trees.
-and still Cancers are red in nature, “he said. This tactile remark expressed the whole Philosophy of the artist, for whom only nature served only as a yardstick. The color writing and the exaggeration of the coincidences was for him a violation Natural-color order. His remarks about Van Gogh and Cezanne sensitively Reveal the truth of their painting. I brought to show him albums with reproductions Paintings of these artists. We’re sitting in the yard. Before us on a table covered with white Tablecloth, copper samovar, white phloxes in a crystal vase. Even this crystal Does not disturb the rustic intimate atmosphere of the manor with a little cherry Garden and tomato bushes. By the evening the air imperceptibly moistens and dragonflies Are rushing almost over our heads.
Sergey Vladimirovich has a leisurely look at the reproduction of V
an Gogh,-here the drawing is very sharp,-he says. The tones are natural
… The “sunflowers” considers the disadvantages of
No.-the figure corresponds to the tone.
About Ceza
nne:-he correctly depicts Greens. In the shadows of trees uses the ochre red…
Creating The generalized color design of the painting, Wang-Gog simultaneously accurately conveyed the Perception of each particular landscape. And it struck me that the “formal” language French painting did not break up from the Russian Provinciale feeling van Gogh Nature. “Natural…”-The favorite definition of Sergey Vladimirovich. Now it Sounded like praise.
One of the Days we decided to go together to the river to write the sunset by the water. And here we are on motive. Uncle Serah opened on the grass improvised from plywood, painted outside black Paint the Etadnik. I saw in it narrow tubes with screw metal Kryshechkami. They don’t do that anymore. Among them I noticed and with such Rare pigments like cinovar, crowns yellow.
I quickly Start to interfere with the paint on the palette and try to paint the whole white plane Cardboard.
And in this Time Uncle Sergey without fuss looks at the sky. Then, having folded his fingers, long Examines through them, as if in a telescope, pieces of landscape, determines Tones, as it was usually done by nineteenth-century artists. Bends his head sideways and looks through his eyes Perpendicular to the earth, compares the relationship of colors of the sky, water and earth. Then A small sketch quickly captures the scarlet sky and its reflection in quiet water. Bushes And the shore is displayed in a single dark silhouette.
Low The sun had already sunk for the high poplars. The landscape is only a reflection of the sky – Twilight. Uncle Serera comes to me, looks at what palette I work and Says:
-Bushes on Shore Brown, but not hot.
And I see That the truth should not be disturbed cobalt green with ochre-bushes seem lighted Direct sunlight.
Since then, I Did not see Sergei Vladimirovich, but meetings with him remained in my memory. His interest in painting was not a purely amateur hobby of skillful Crafts with their handmade game. The painting was for him an expression of life Nature and his own life. About drawing he talked about as the most skillful Of all the arts. and the word “painting” for him revealed the meaning of drawing- The ability to depict, save, and transmit the seen in a live form.
v.s. Fungi