“The artist’s painting is imbued with a great love of nature, in addition to general conditions of nature, the author tries to notice in it also small nuances – the play of light on the leaves, which for some moments crouched on the fence magpie or the last ray gliding on the vine. From this work the author becomes truly alive and soulful, and the constant search for new types and motives, the constant work exclusively from nature, in the open air, is rare in our time, make the author’s works so diverse and unique. ”
V.I. Sataev
Bozhkov Roman Alexandrovich – a modern, talented, Russian artist – landscape painter. The captivating beauty of its landscapes is amazing and remains in the memory for a long time. His realistic paintings attract, attract the viewer’s eye and do not let go for a long time. In each creation of the artist, the beauty of nature familiar to everyone is conveyed, which the master raises to a worthy place in modern art. The vast expanses of the Russian landscape will captivate the viewer with its scope. To convey the simplicity of the world so beautifully, Roman Bozhkov not only masterfully owns technology, but also puts a piece of his soul, his worldview.
Roman Bozhkov was born in 1980, in the city of Shebekino, Belgorod Region. In 1993, he graduated from the Children’s Art School, and in 1999, the Shebekinsky Vocational School, specializing in artist-decorator. Lives and works in Belgorod.
The artist’s painting is imbued with a great love of nature, in addition to the general states of nature, the author tries to notice small nuances in it – the play of light on the leaves, the morning nebula or a ray gliding along the branches of trees. From this, the author’s works become truly “alive” and soulful, and the constant search for new types and motives, the constant work exclusively from nature, in the open air, are rare in our time, make the author’s works so diverse and unique.
There is a feeling of freshness, a feeling of air . The artist constantly finds such images in typical Russian landscapes that are difficult to describe in words, they can only be felt with all the fibers of the soul. The greatness of nature, recreated on the canvases, makes your heart sank and plunge headlong into its expanse, breathe its atmosphere and enjoy the skill of a talented painter.
Artist Roman Bozhkov: the internal energy of space
Artist Roman Bozhkov. We were completely captivated by his work with space. Always different and new, full of inner energy and clever semantic accents on the key elements of the composition. With him, it “breathes” and changes, approaches or slips away, dances or freezes for a moment, obeying the artist’s plan.
In articles devoted to the work of Roman Bozhkov, our colleagues invariably urge readers to appreciate the care and the attention with which the painter refers to the nuances of the play of light and shadow; excellent technique that allows the artist to carefully work out individual details of the composition; the deep sincerity with which he confesses his love for his native expanses. Well, we can only join their opinion and, for our part, testify that we observe and feel exactly the same thing.
However, the success of the paintings of Bozhkov’s work cannot be explained only by the desire of a talented painter to share his admiration for the majestic beauty of Russian forests and fields. In fact, the “magic” of his landscapes lies in the synthesis of the “energy charge” of the color palette and the subtle calculation of the expressiveness of visual dominants, in the “dance” of contours and edemas.
In other words: the peak of the seaside lighthouse soaring into the sky, framed by a whirlwind of violet-gray clouds and flapping the wings of restless gulls – only at first glance is the central figure, the “protagonist” of the work.
As the sunset Sun, giving the world the last warm rays, piercing the path through an inexorably thickening fog, is not a self-contained picturesque “statement”.
The unshakable cliffs of rocks, the cheerful brilliance of raindrops on the quivering leaves of birches, the tenderness of the petals of blooming lilacs are only key, but not dominant, “pillars” of compositions. What is more important is the single, felt inextricable, and from that organic, and authentic space, which creates, without exception, the elements of the canvas.
The painter does not paint a landscape with a lighthouse, which is approaching a thunderstorm, so that you and I simply admire the beautiful shades of purple and enjoy the contrast of the austere white outlines of the tower against its bizarre backdrop. Not. In fact, the work tells of an inevitably passing summer, after which white-winged birds rush into the distance, as if afraid to lag behind the rapid run of clouds. And a strip of clouds smoothly darkening from the zenith to the horizon and a spire raised to the sky are only visual boundaries between the spaces “before” and “after”. And if tender summer still reigns on one, then on the other – taut streams of cold rain lash from the sky … And even if formally this canvas belongs to a realistic genre, but in essence it is a real symbolic metaphor.
The master does not devote a picture to admiring the thoughtfully-smooth aesthetics of a forest lake. The bottom line is in the air trembling under the first warm rays of the rising sun and cheerful glare on the water surface, which, together with the green-blue gamma of the forest, water and sky, tell us how a small miracle is happening before our eyes: the birth of a new day, the victory of living warmth over dusk of the night.
Important geese marching to the pond; glitter of ripe mountain ash against a background of snow flakes; forest path, beckoning into the unknown thicket: all this is only part of a much more meaningful plan, message, context.
This principle can be easily extrapolated to almost every canvas of the artist. And each time before us is not a frozen reality, but the whole world, by the will of the master, frozen for a moment before our eyes. Not a combination of form and color, but space in motion. Not just bright, but living; not just familiar, but clearly felt. The same painting where the content prevails over the form.
We admit honestly: we have not received so much pleasure from contemplating the landscapes of modern masters for a long time, as we presented the works of Roman Bozhkov to us. We hope, dear reader, you will also like them.
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
Painting by Artist Roman Božkov
