“The Himalayas. The Pink Mountains” – the work of a mature master of mountain landscapes, the creator of the heavenly and mountainous spaces – Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich. Roerich’s personality is as great and unusual as the artistic images and motifs he creates are so sublime and mysterious.
“Himalayas. The Pink Mountains” were written in 1933, and at the moment the canvas can be found in the collection of the New York Museum of Nicholas Roerich. The sky and the mountains were one of the main symbols of the Roerich artistic system and worldview. The artist pays great attention to studying, understanding and creative contemplation of the data of favorite objects, trying to notice and not to miss the slightest detail. Nicholas Roerich lived in India for quite a long time, where, with his characteristic depth of mind and heart, he perceived the culture and natural images of this country. The Himalayas were the object that repeatedly observed and portrayed Roerich, being in India.
Roerich tried to embody the various states and “moods” of the Himalayas, to emphasize their diversity and originality. India itself was also many-sided and original, forever striking and capturing the master’s imagination. The mountain landscapes of Roerich, which depict the Himalayas, attract with a special color, which is built exactly the color stretching or “gradient”. And the work “Himalayas. The Pink Mountains” is no exception. The name of the painting itself contains the component of the meaning that the canvas is intended to realize, namely, the feeling of color, the feeling of tenderness of colors, when the harsh, unapproachable mountain peaks can soften the pink pale lilac rays of the sun.
The pink mountains are an unusual image, an image that reverses stereotypical images of mountains and pictures of mountain landscapes. In the system of traditional artistic coordinates, Roerich introduces the idea of feeling, the idea of the spirit, and not just the truth or the falsity of the image. The level of truth is that we have depicted the great Himalayas, we recognize these mountainous outlines and we know these great lines and features. The level of feeling opens up something more.
The feeling is born thanks to an unusual color. In front of us are not the typical gray dull giant mountains, but special pink mountains fanned by the sun and the air. The spirit level allows us to feel this height for a while, this elevation above the earth and proximity to the sky, to the pink, purple clouds, go into these pink dreams, soft, multi-colored dreams and dreams. To enable your spirit to feel this beautiful lightness of being. And if only for a while, but leave, run away from the yoke of blue colors, coarse dark sharp such earthly outlines. Leave for a time earthly, boring firmament and drown in pink mists, so resembling mountains, clouds, or even overflows of bright satin ribbons burning in the sun.
Roerich’s canvas “Himalayas. Pink Mountains” is a canvas – a symbol, a landscape-symbol. This pictorial work is three-dimensional, full of signs, semiotic and complex, as the work itself and the personality of the artist. Roerich’s paintings are paintings-reflections, paintings-prayers, paintings-symbols. Common to the author’s works are openness, simultaneity of space and time, the feeling of “frozen eternity”, stylization and apparent simplicity of drawing, sensuality at the color level, severity of design and ideas at the level of lines and composition.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)