Anamnesis

"Anamnesis" by Olga Romanova

I like Socrates' theory of anamnesis. Socrates suggests that the soul is immortal, and repeatedly incarnated; knowledge is actually in the soul from eternity, but each time the soul is incarnated its knowledge is forgotten in the shock of birth. What one perceives to be learning, then, is actually the recovery of what one has forgotten. Once it has been brought back it is true belief, to be turned into genuine knowledge by understanding.

Mountains of Kyrgyzstan

"Mountains of Kyrgyzstan" by Valentin Massov

"The mountain peaks" by Valentin Massov

"A frosty morning" by Valentin Massov

"Issyk Kul Lake" by Valentin Massov

Valentin Massov took a trip across Kyrgystan in 1970. It was a very interesting journey. Kyrgyzstan is the fantastic country. Valentin Massov have got the revelation on the Lake Sary-Chelek. But it is his secret.

My art is my life

"The Deer-Golden Horn" by Olga Romanova

I feel better when I work. Art is the world where I can live to the fullest. I am happy only there.
"Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world." Maurois

Supper with Picasso

 "Supper with Picasso" by Olga Romanova

“Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only an insignificant part of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world though we can’t explain them; people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.” Picasso

Magic of the human soul

"Frenchwoman" by Olga Romanova

Every human is the unique creation of God. I would say the every human is the universe in the boundless space.
I think an artist have to try to reproduce inward life of human. Try, or else why do you take a brush in your hand? I am against blind imitation of nature. A camera can make the same. The artist have to see more than the camera, or else he is not the artist.

Beauty of Nature

Nature is so beautiful that an artist does not have to invent anything. Just he has to follow it.  Come and see! Nature will show all itself. Because nature is the best teacher.

"Evening" by Valentin Massov

"The still life" by Valentin Massov

Nature contains too much. None of an artist can not create more. The artist can only approximate to nature. Because nature is God's creation. Few can say:"I have cognized nature in full measure." I know the artist who was able to approximate to the truth. His name is Valentin Massov. "Light is the essence of life," he said. And he was able to prove it in his works.

"Flowers" by Valentin Massov

 

Art about

What is art for me? Art is the way of knowledge of everything. Art can create, art can destroy. Art can exalt of soul of human, art can trample on human dignity. An artist must carry the responsibility before God and humanity, I think.

"God's Words"  by Olga Romanova