Belarusian artist Aleksei Vasilyevich Kuzmich painted landscapes, portraits and
Madonna His collection of paintings dedicated to the Madonna is the greatest in the world. He argued that the modern world needs restoration of spiritual values. The artist made a significant contribution to this direction.
From biography
Alexey Vasilyevich Kuzmich was born in 1945 in Belarus in a large peasant family. Father died of frontal wounds. Mother and sisters took care of the boy. A significant role in the life of a teenager was played by a cousin, a self-taught artist, and a drawing teacher.
After nine years old, the young man entered the art school in Krasnoyarsk. Here he often visited the museum and examined the canvases of V.I. Surikov. After the army he returned to Belarus, entered the theater and art institute, and after graduation taught in it. Then he took up creativity.
Creative way
A. Kuzmich’s creative career did not immediately succeed. Once at the exhibition, he presented "Young Danube". The commission was outraged. For more than a decade, the paintings did not recognize him. Subsequently, the author of the world's largest collection of paintings with the image of Madonna became a member of the Belarusian Union of Artists, a member of the International Cyril and Methodius Academy. His works are not only in museums of Belarus, but also abroad.
"Kuzmichevsky Madonnas"
The images of women were predominant in his work. Most often, they and their babies were portrayed as golden-haired. In light, transparent clothes-wraps of different color shades: golden, blue, pale pink, scarlet, red. The eyes are deep, large, sad, often crying. There are madonnas like queens in a panther-colored cloak, speckled. On the head is a majestic crown. Nearby guardian angels. Interesting frames of images of the Madonnas. Here is one of them: rowan berries are a symbol of a healthy life.
In one of these paintings, girls are depicted next to a young woman holding a baby. They stare at her, and one wants to give her a flower. There are also “Future Madonnas” in the artist’s collection - young pregnant women.
His paintings are like icons, but at the same time they are real. It is in this that the uniqueness of A. Kuzmich’s creativity lies - the unity of the sacred and secular. Many of his works are called lamentations of the Madonnas. And they themselves are called silver, woodland, Chernobyl, even
. state. There are many disturbing paintings, but most are optimistic, gentle and affectionate, which pacify a person.
Historical and philosophical, landscape and portraiture
The paintings of A. Kuzmich captured landscapes and stories about the Gulag and Chernobyl. One of the key topics in the artist's work was the theme of the unity of the Slavic peoples. He also painted portraits. They are representatives of the culture of Belarus and Russia - artists, sculptors, filmmakers. The artist sought to convey the peculiar character of man. With his creations, he helps to better know these respected people.
Art is the meaning of his life
Creative ideas were always central to A.V. Kuzmich. The artist made a significant contribution to the development of spirituality. Looking at his amazingly warm paintings, a man thinks about a woman-mother, about the Slavs, about the spiritual.
