A paradoxical situation arises: from the pages of fashion magazines, we are assured that strange disharmonious installations, ugly images, monstrous paintings painted with excrement and ordinary toilets in a museum hall – this is art. But most people, shrugging their shoulders, still prefer classical painting, watercolor, decorative art. Classical examples of harmony and aesthetics are beyond fashion. It is the very sense of beauty inherent in man.
Looking at the website chernetsky.com.ua, we find ourselves precisely in such a world of traditional aesthetics, not vulgarized by the fashionable trends of pathological 'creativity'. Trees on canvas here are trees, snow is snow, beauty is beauty.
These picturesque landscapes are created by Artist Chernetsky, who inspiredly transfers onto canvas the colors of sunset, the rustle of young foliage, the smells of autumn forest. A road disappearing into the distance in the haze of summer heat, a frozen winter oak alley in a fairy-tale sleep, a cliff with a lone tree against a sea sunset, delicate irises, a boat on a river under golden crowns…
The artist's cityscapes are very good. On the canvas, Venetian houses may glow in the rays of the setting sun, a church in Chernigov may show off, a bench may sadly sit alone on a lonely alley...
These paintings evoke a feeling of harmony in the soul. One wants to own such a canvas, to hang it on the wall in the bedroom or living room. One wants to enjoy these colors and give this joy to friends, relatives, loved ones. Perhaps that is why Chernetsky's paintings are so often bought to give as a gift.
Nikolai Yakovlevich Chernetsky is a Kyiv artist, well known among fans of contemporary painting of classical genres. His main tools are brush, oil, canvas. But the artist also works with other materials: for example, an image of a golden sunset on a birch cross-section turned out amazingly beautiful. It seems that the oval core of the wood is actually a mirror reflecting a sea sunset. Or maybe it's a window to another world, where beauty remains beauty?
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