Pavel Chelishchev

The book of the famous art critic Georgy Fedorovich Kovalenko is the first study in our country, dedicated to the work of Pavel Cheshishchev, an artist, which affects the scale and originality of talent, but almost unfamiliar to the Russian reader. Russian by origin and upbringing, Chelychev categorically did not want to be a Russian artist in exile. He wanted to be a man and an artist of the world, and he became him!
The monograph reveals to the reader all the versatility of the talent of the master. His theatrical work - the design of the ballets “Oda”, “Wanderer”, “Balyustra” and the play “Undine” - were much ahead of their time. Having abandoned traditional scenography, he turned to the stage possibilities of light, turning theatrical scenery into an unprecedented sight. Chelyishchev’s work amazed, delighted, outraged, but did not leave indifferent.
He was an artist with a special vision of the lady of nature, as he greatly great and the eternal tributary of which was. With the help of accessible visual means, Chelishchev sought to show the relationship of space and time, their metamorphosis, the eternal movement of all things. In the last works of the so -called “heavenly cycle”, he, in his own conviction, found all this the ideal form of expression - the symbolic image of a person in the universe. New icons? New icon painter? This is decided by you, dear reader.
The book is designed for a wide range of lovers of art of the twentieth century