Thursday, April 16, 2015

Triune formula - the soul, business, feeling. Romantic and knight, painter and graphic artist Oleg Karpenko

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Triune formula - the soul, business, feeling. Romantic and knight, painter and graphic artist Oleg Karpenko


Oleg Karpenko was born in 1956 in Sverdlovsk. In 1981 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Institute of Architecture. Professional artist. Works in classical oil painting lessirovochnomu and unique graphics: coated board, glubokochernaya gouache, needle. In the works of Oleg Karpenko - his personal mythology as a special way of thinking about the world and man in it.

Of the triune formula "God, sovereign lady" ("soul thing, feeling") out of his plots and characters: soldiers, horsemen, wanderers ... Every person on this earth - Warrior. But not with other people at war, and our vices, sins. Christian on the horse - he is not on a particular road to Constantinople. His "crusade" - internal. Virgin: Anna Maria, Catherine - if they are incorporeal, their fingers are able to wriggle, squirm bizarrely, their hair curled like a snake - it's all internal movement. Eyes lowered or closed - eyes are turned inward. Truly because man sees Oedipus Rex: blind - and then received his sight.


Shlem Angels



Virgo with a bird



Virgin sleep



Virgo with helmets



Virgo sleeping hare



Next to the soldiers, there is another, parallel world: solitude, prayer, service to the Beautiful Lady. Female characters - sublime, almost incorporeal. Rather, it is the emanation of femininity, dreams of escaping beauty, elusive as the horizon line. Paintings filled game associations that take us beyond the banal reality. They require sophisticated audience who knows classical European art who has read Borges and Umberto Eco, who appreciates Salvador Dali. Oleg jokes: "For me drawing is" responsible "Dürer, Rembrandt of chiaroscuro, and for color - Titian"! Of course, you realize: Karpenko - romantic. Each picture - as a parable, an image - as a multi-valued symbol.

Diana

Vsadniki

The Middle Ages, for it is not so much time, how much to do with time. It is in the golden era of the early Middle Ages King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table was the most people internally free, at the same time, a system of human behavior, says Oleg, eternal and universal "soul belongs to God, the body - the lord, heart - a lady."
He - a true knight, but his hand is not a sword (though the sword in the house there), and a brush for drawing. She - the lady of his heart. Both have traveled all over the world. Spouses an architect, but do not build buildings, and happiness in her new life. They found their home in an unfamiliar world of the Bulgarian village Podvis an hour's drive from Burgas. Oleg is more like a pre-revolutionary Russian aristocrat. He had long since forgotten his diploma architect. His passion - painting. His muse - elegant Tatiana. She followed him into the "journey to yourself," which resulted in the pair at the foot of Stara Planina.



Rider



Golden Horseman



Horseman Silver



Warrior



Chimera



Virgin sleep

As they were in Bulgaria? Why is an artist who traveled the world, whose paintings adorn many prestigious galleries and private collections, chose this place?
- When choosing a house, a painting or a woman, can not explain why it chose, says Oleg - Is there some kind of mechanism, everything is solved, and you have just the antenna, you go somewhere and you know that this is your place. Another reason that made Oleg settle in Bulgaria - the history of this land. The artist just in awe of ancient Thrace. Enthusiastically talks about her myths, heroes and deities. - Imagine there lived Orpheus, Dionysus and Orestes! - Shows he handed off to the south. The artist knows the ancient history of Nessebar, Pomorie and Sozopol. Says he was stunned when he learned that the ancient writer Herodotus wrote about the Persian king Darius the campaigns that fought against the Scythians in these chronicles mention Messemvria - Nessebar today.



George



Recollection chrysanthemums



Anna



Moon's transformation



Virgo Bird



Conference of the Birds





Catherine

Oleg draws every day. Gets up in the morning, dressed, wears boots with real spurs ... and goes to his studio. Here real room wizard. Everywhere on the walls, the walls on the floor small and large paintings that seem to invite us into the world of myths and legends. On canvas - beautiful, powerful creatures that fly, run, fight, love each other. Warm beauty and grace. Horses, dogs, falcons come to life by magic hand of the artist.
By drawing the artist approached with great reverence. Very seriously said: "I am a knight, and so some of my paintings pacing in spurs. From these spurs in my chest wounds, because they have all the time pyryayut so I can draw, create, create their own heroes and materialize your dreams. How would I was standing in slippers or simple shoes among these paintings ?! "

Progulka

Zamok

Sokolinaya hunting

Paintings by Oleg truly enormous. And in the sense of size and in terms of energy charge.
- This is natural, because if I draw, say, a horse, I want it was natural size, not the size of a mouse - with a smile, commenting on the fact Oleg. Karpenko paintings are so beautiful that captive audience wants to know what is left out of sight, out there beyond the frame of the canvas.

To the question whether he considers himself well-known and successful artist, he says that a person can be known only when the draws of 50 years, or if the writing of the book 30 years, or 20 years of dancing. But at the same time it is guaranteed instant fame when he is cooking programs on television. Speaking of which Oleg tinkles spurs on stone tile in front of his house in a small Bulgarian Bulgarian Podvis where the air is clean, the sun shines, where a very special light, and where everything is inspired by the artist at work.


Fish

Since 1986 Oleg Karpnnko participates in exhibitions in Russia, Bulgaria, Germany, USA, Holland, Denmark. His works are in Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, a collection of Patriarch of All Russia Alexy II, private and corporate collections in Russia and abroad.






Musical composition - Moonstone

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