Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
AvailablityUsually ships within five business days. ArtistDaniil Belov Collectionlandscape
Description Once we were painting studies in the giant forest, which is called national park Elks island. It is situated on the Moscows territory, occupying a big part of it, and goes far beyond its borders. One can really meet elks there, even in the part which is inside Moscow. And the forestry is something like a small village on its scopes, with its own yard and the Birds garden, where got in a trouble birds are nursed.It was the fifth hour of work.From one of the paths a woman turned to us.How long do you paint that?Five hours, we answered.Studies cant be painted like this! For a study two hours should be spent at most! declared the woman and proudly went away.I do not remember how much time Ive spent on this work, but on the longest painting, which Ive made in one session, I was working around eleven hours running. On the fastest around two and a half hours, and in those two cases Ive set myself completely different tasks. It has been five years since the moment of the painting of this work and I still didnt understand why one should paint studies by two hours. Probably, because the light is changing, but it is changing even in two hours, so in any case one needs to paint partly by impression!
Daniil Belov, Moscow Member Since September 2013 Artist Statement Recently I’ve been interested in the question: how to paint so that the painting would give such strong feelings as the music of Bach or Schnittke? It is the problem I try to solve when I paint my pictures – how to fully express with paints the things that give rise to my emotions. How to express the full variety of these feelings turns out to be what is most difficult. It can be silent contemplative joy, nervous waiting or union of beauty and dramatic effect. That’s why beauty and convergence with nature for me are only some of the means of expression and the revelation of the image.
Have you noticed how weather influences your mood, how objects hold memories about what they were associated with, how the world around us influences our emotions, senses, feelings? Compare your mood when warm sunbeams wake you up with when the whole sky is clouded over and rain is pattering on the windowsill. In this sense nature is a splendid figurative method. All I have to do is use it right and to combine it with all the other, no less significant expressive methods, that I control, which will help me to convey exactly what I want to share. I want to deal with such paintings, in contact with which a wave of searing pain will rise to the throat or feelings of joy or peace will overflow; that a viewer, seeing my picture, will live through it with me as its author and performer.