One of the best nesterovskogo paintings “Silence”. Bay at the foot of the Rapier. Mysterious light of the white night. In the still waters, a dark, wooded mountain is reflected. Like an echo, the figures of monks in boats, a gray-bearded old man and a young man repeat each other.
The state of nature is sensitively caught by the artist, but he does not follow nature passively. Nesterov’s mastery of composition here is manifested in her laconicism, the choice of close-ups, the stinginess of generalizing lines. Almost literal repetition of the monks’ silhouettes was used by Nesterov as a rhythm in music.
It is noteworthy that in his works on “monastic” themes, Nesterov never depicted either hierarchs or magnificent ministries with their magnificent rites, or church-like interiors flowing out with gold. Noting the characteristic features of Nesterov’s religious canvases, Durylin wrote:
“Nesterov always removes his monastic prostitutes from the cells, from the churches, from the monastery walls – takes them into the forest wilderness and leaves them alone with their prayer, face to face with the life-giving nature, alone with the Christmas trees and birches, and gives them birds to the interlocutors yes animals… This theme was a constant, inseparable from Nesterov theme – the blissful communication of the believer with nature. “
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