"I.A. Pavlishak (1923-1995). The Northern Motive. 1960." (104 Lenin St., main exposition) Automatic translate

On January 31, the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts will open an exhibition of one painting, “I. A. Pavlishak (1923-1995). "Northern motive." 1960 "(104 Lenin St., main exposition)

Honored Artist of the RSFSR Joseph A. Pavlishak (1923 - 1995) - one of the most famous Kaluga painters. Born in Kaluga on September 20, 1923. From childhood he showed interest in art, in his childhood he studied in the art studio of the Palace of Pioneers, and even then dreamed of becoming an artist. With the outbreak of war in July 1941, Joseph Pavlishak, who had not yet reached full age, was sent to the construction of defensive structures. In 1942, after graduating from junior lieutenant courses, a nineteen-year-old young man as commander of a rifle platoon participated in the defeat of Nazi troops near Stalingrad, where he was seriously wounded. After lengthy treatment at the hospital, he was demobilized and returned home to Kaluga in 1944.

After the war ended in 1945, I. A. Pavlishak entered the Tartu State Art Institute, graduating from which in 1951 he returned to his hometown. Since that time, his life and work are inextricably linked with Kaluga land. For more than forty years of creative period, the artist worked in different genres. In a thematic picture he captured the life of a village modern to him; the heroes of his portraits were his contemporaries, in whose images the artist revealed the spiritual beauty of man. A prominent place in the work of I.A. Pavlishak was taken by the landscape, which was greatly facilitated by the love of nature, and the ability to find beauty in an unremarkable motive. I.A. Pavlishak contributed to the development of the Soviet still life. But no matter in what genre the artist works, the technique of a separate brushstroke, perceived by the impressionists, gave his works a special picturesqueness. Since 1951, he participated in more than fifty regional, regional, republican, all-Union and foreign exhibitions. His paintings are stored in museums and private collections in Russia and abroad. In 1972, I.A. Pavlishak became an honored artist of Russia. In 1995, shortly before his death, he was nominated for the title of People’s Artist of Russia - but he did not manage to get this title. Joining the Union of Artists of the USSR in 1953, I. A. Pavlishak became one of the founders of the Kaluga organization of the Union of Artists of Russia, and headed it for twenty-five years - from 1957 to 1982.

In his landscapes, I. A. Pavlishak depicted the nature of not only his native Kaluga Territory, but also traveled extensively in Russia. In 1960, I. A. Pavlishak was on a creative business trip in the Russian North, in the region of Onega and White Lakes, where he painted a number of landscapes. One of them - the "Northern Motive" is stored in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. It depicts an old Russian village on the banks of a river or lake on a gloomy summer day: log houses on supports, nets hung out for drying, boats near the shore are characteristic signs of fishing life. All the nuances of lighting a gloomy day are accurately captured and conveyed in painting: diffused light breaks through the gaps of clouds, its reflections reflect and play with glare on the water. Cold shades of green and brownish-gray colors in painting get the greatest depth thanks to the flash of a red dress of a walking woman. The inclusion of a female figure in the landscape plays not only a decorative role, but also conveys a characteristic episode from rural life. In this seemingly simple artless landscape, he managed to convey the poetry of being, and in the harmony of the color system, the talent of I. A. Pavlishak as a colorist artist was revealed. The landscape “Northern Motive” stored in the collection of the KIIA is one of the best early landscapes in the artist’s work.