Tatiana Vasilyevna Gorelova is a heaven-born painter.
In 1969, when I was just born and could not yet see the top of the table, Tatiana Gorelova had been already paining her wonderful student’s works in Kerch sent there for practical training by the Surikov Arts Institute.
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| A Hut in the Mountains oil on canvas, 40х50, 1969, private collection, Russia |
Golden Evening oil on canvas, 50х70,1969, author’s property |
Red Boat oil on canvas, 40х60, 1969, author’s property |
She creates impressive paintings of cityscapes, still-lives, self-portraits, and compositions.
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| Holliday oil on canvas, 137х140, 1985, author’s property |
City Lights oil on canvas, 147х147, 1985, collection of the Art Museum named after V.I. Surikov, Krasnoyarsk |
Clear Quiet Day oil on canvas, 120х110, 1998 author’s property |
But above all – landscapes.
Tatiana Gorelova is a marvellous landscape painter. It’s not a witty remark; today there are hordes these at numberless exhibitions.
They are fantastically alike: a firtree on the right, a firtree on the left, some flower in the forefront without fail, in the background on a hill there would be an obligatory church badly drawn in pencil and even worse in oil…
Then you feel sorry for this wonderful genre, the landscape. Within the genre you can express anything you want – ‘storm is covering skies with darkness’ to ‘a mighty ridge of clouds is falling scarce’ (A. Pushkin); from passion to tenderness, from tragedy to sarcasm; from wrath to utter tranquillity…
Landscape is feeling and thought, it’s mood and content, it’s idea and faith.
It is great, that in our country there are still real landscape painters, who see this and can express it with a healthy, efficient and wise word of art. Artist Tatiana Vasilyevna Gorelova is one of them.
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| Winter oil on canvas, 77х73, 1979, collection of the Ministry of Culture of the RF |
The Storm oil on canvas, 60х50, 1979, author’s property |
Pink Almond-Trees oil on canvas, 105х100, 1979, author’s property |
Tatiana Gorelova is a representative of the famous Moscow school of painting, of this glorious school’s traditions. She has been working side by side with many famous Russian artists of the sixties and was equal to them; to them. Her canvasses are really striking and not only by the size but by the very feeling of the pictorial brushwork: tough kneading and light transparent, with open canvass sometimes – with open canvass! – when no one did not dare paint like that, sometimes thick to resemble a bas-relief, and always very subtle in colours and exact in their sense.
Tatiana Vasilyevna Gorelova has been participating in the Project ‘The Portrait of Russian Fine Word’ from the very start. Her landscapes set the right pitch to expositions and shape the necessary space for 3-D objects; that is why sculptors like to exhibit their works next to her canvasses. And that is the reasons why we seldom invite other landscape painters to our Project – there is already a highly professional and powerful landscape painter the Project ‘The Portrait of Russian Fine Word’.
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| In the Artist’s Studio oil on canvas, 120х110, 1991, author’s property |
Peaceful Skies over the Berezina oil on canvas, 140х160, 2005, author’s property |
Elegy oil on canvas, 137х140, 1994 |
In the season of 2015, Tatiana Gorelova displayed at our exhibitions her works ‘Elegy’, ‘Peaceful Skies over the Berezina’ and ‘In the Artist’s Studio’. On the opening day of the exhibition in the Tsvetaeva Memorial Museum, I was watching how attentively artists studied her paintings and how spellbound spectaculars were. I know, some of them came to the exhibition just to see the paintings by Tatiana Gorelova.
And I should confess… oh no, it is awkward… ok, I’ll say that aloud:
that’s beyond me why Tatiana Vasilyevna Gorelova
has not been nominated to the title of Honoured Artist of Russia yet.
Find more works by Tatiana Gorelova in the GALLERY of Marina Siourina’s Web-site