Original artwork description:

In this piece, I poured my heart into capturing the quiet resilience of a fading rural world. Using oil, I blended impressionism’s light with realism’s detail to evoke a sense of nostalgia and bittersweet beauty. This painting radiates calm yet carries a whisper of stories, inviting your space to breathe history, nature, and quiet reflection into everyday life.
From a trip last summer. It somehow looks like an average village in Russia. Many houses have been abandoned, roofs have collapsed. And sometimes the ruins of houses and baths are so dilapidated that they reminded me of the skeletons of extinct animals. And not many residents in these villages remain there to live out their lives. A couple of years ago, Vera Smirnova, whose portrait I painted, died in the Tver region. People live there not at all richly, while remaining kind and hospitable, if they do not drink too much. And there is also the name Maryino, I live in Moscow in an area of ​​the same name, when it was also a village, on the outskirts of Moscow. I remember the song of Semyon Slepakov: And in my country everything is there: it has oil and gas in it. There is coal and there is nickel, there is not a lot of aluminum...
PS: I can only remember pictures of such villages by Levitan, Savrasov and other classics who lived more than a century ago.

Materials used:

Oil

Tags:

#summer #grey #village #old #day #old house #wooden #ruins #wooden house #roofs #leaving #baths #average #yaroslavl region #maryino