Painting is a guided vision which can be dreamed by anyone, but only the artist can embody this vision on a canvas, render in color this amazing sensation of oneself in the world. Still, not all facets of reality presume the possibility of artistic embodiment for the artist. Thus, genre preferences come to the fore. As to the paintings of Arkady Livshitz, the essence of his inspiration in the course of almost half a century has been that of landscape. With time they enrich the human soul, likewise the nature itself, latently attracting the human being. Aesthetic education of senses becomes realized only through artistic perception and comprehension.
The landscape of A. Livshitz never open up straight away before one’s eyes. They remind one of Salome muffled with a veil of hopes, reminiscences , grief, tenderness, love and its peculiar artistic colour. They beckon, lifting above the prose of life. And more than that – they arouse curiosity, a quality of no small importance in the torrent of vain tossing-about of modern art read more>
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