It is infinitely difficult to say a new word in art, to find your own language in painting. It is especially difficult to do this in a landscape. The canvases of Nikolai Romadin, at first glance, are traditional. But the longer you peer into the artist's paintings, the more you comprehend the special Romadin handwriting.
Once the writer Alexei Tolstoy came to the workshop of Nikolai Mikhailovich Romadin. He really liked the small landscape, he took it off the wall, looked at it for a long time and then uttered only one word: "Witchcraft!"
The future artist was born in Samara, in the family of a railway worker. His father was no stranger to painting, in moments of rest he took out paints, brushes - he painted pictures about the sea, which he had never seen. But he really did not want his son to become an artist - this profession, in his opinion, was not serious for a man. However, when his father was away, Kolya took his paints and brushes - then he could not be torn away from them. The father did not like this, a conflict was brewing in the family. In 1922, Nikolai gathered his simple belongings and left for Moscow to enter the Vkhutemas.
The angry father hardly imagined that his son would become a famous artist, that his modest pictorial experiments would become world heritage - in 1997, an unusual exhibition "Three generations of Russian artists Romadins" was held in the Spanish city of Seville, at which his paintings, Mikhail Andreevich, were exhibited , his son Nikolai and grandson Mikhail. The exhibition was a great success.
Nikolai Romadin, being a passionate, temperamental and addicted person, threw himself into painting from one extreme to another, tried everything in it - both thematic canvases on "topical" topics, and a portrait in which he achieved great recognition. His "Self-portrait", executed in 1948, is now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. A huge honor!
In the late 1930s, Romadin suddenly abandoned everything he had already created, which he could be quite proud of, and went into a pure landscape. With an easel, canvases, paints and brushes, with a small backpack, he disappeared for months in the northern, Central Russian and other distances and villages.
Exhibited at the first solo exhibition in 1940, his work showed a new, original name in Russian painting. A big event was the visit of the exhibition by Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov. The meeting was very important for the artist.
An unexpected and, perhaps, the highest award was a photograph of Levitan, Mikhail Vasilyevich handed it to Romadin with the words: "Levitan gave me a photograph as a successor to the traditions of the Russian landscape. Keep it, and then, when you see fit, pass it on to the young artist, who with honor can continue this line!"
During the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai Romadin created a large series of paintings "Volga - Russian River". Almost all of it is now in the Tretyakov Gallery. The same, however, as another significant pictorial series "The Season", created under the influence of Tchaikovsky's music and paintings by Claude Lorrain.
The painting "Kerzhenets", written in 1946, became a milestone in the artist's work. The most characteristic for him, the most romantic and mysterious. Its plot, at first glance, is very simple. The time of the spring flood, a dense forest, as if growing out of dark, gloomy water and frozen in some kind of agonizing expectation. And even a fragile boat with two human silhouettes does not disturb this magical, "Berende's" realm.
And "Kerzhenets", and other most significant works - "Kudinskoye Lake", "Yarensky Forest", "White Night", "Winter in Ostrovsky", "Senezh. Pink Winter", "Smart Winter", "Fog. Oka", " In the Ryazan places of Yesenin "are amazing in their emotional impact, in their subtlest figurative magic.
Evgraf END (from the article "The Witch's Lake of Nikolai Romadin")
Another Russian artist whose name was unknown to me.
Romadina N.M. called an outstanding Russian artist, a master of the lyrical Russian landscape.
Spring rain. 1967 
Memories of Ventsianov 
Thunderstorm, 1967
The formation of art N.M. Romadin, the son of an amateur artist, fell on the post-revolutionary years, when the influence of the avant-garde was gradually fading away. Romadin, at first the author of portraits and paintings of everyday genre, in the 1930s finds himself in a lyrical landscape, where it was possible to "hide" from the pathos of socialist realism, alien to the artist.
Bird cherry, 1971 
high water
The most striking period of Romadin's art was the 1940s–1950s, when his paintings were perceived as the development of the landscape line of the largest masters of this genre in the first half of the century - M.V. Nesterova, I.E. Grabar, N.P. Krymov. But Romadin is an original artist, able to peer into the motive almost to the point of dissolving in it - whether it is quite traditional views, as in the series "Volga - Russian River" (1949), "The Seasons" (1953), or, conversely, bewitching, mysterious corners ("Kerzhenets", 1946; "Flooded Forest", 1950s).
Kerzhenets, 1946 
Flooded forest, 1970 
spring stream 
Berendey forest. 1978 
Spring forest, 1956
N. M. Romadin died on April 10, 1987. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery. 
Spring thicket, 1972 
Spruce illuminated by the sun, 1964 
Forest river, 1956 
Willows in flood 
pink spring 
Fresh breeze 
Forest Lake, 1959 
Kudinsky lake 
Khmelevka village 
In Yesenin's native places, 1957 
In the forest in winter. December. 1956 
Ice-free river 
Night longing, 1958
Born in Samara on May 6 (19), 1903 in the family of a railway employee. He studied at the Samara Art College (1922) and the Moscow Vkhutemas (1923–1930) under R.R. Falk, I.I. Mashkov and P.P. Konchalovsky. He was particularly influenced by the pictorial manner of the masters of the Union of Russian Artists, with their impressionistic colorism and the desire to turn a relatively simple natural impression into a symbolic “image of Russia”.
Works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. The State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow State Historical Museum, Moscow. The State Historical Museum Collection of the House-Museum of Maximilian Voloshin, Koktebel. Collection of the House-Museum of Maximilian VoloshinKoktebel Russian Museum in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine Museum of the History of the XX century , Paris. Paris P. Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany. P. Ludwig Museum Cologne Germany P. Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany. Aachen University of Maryland Collection, Washington. Washington Private collections in Russia, USA, France, Monaco, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg.
“Romadin's temperament is hidden, driven inside. In his best works, temperament from outwardly understandable dynamism and chaos, superficially ordered, as it often happens, is melted into a calm and noble form, quiet and simple. In my understanding, a high artistic beginning is hidden in this principle” Andrei Tarkovsky. Andrei Tarkovsky
“Rhythmic repetitions, oversaturation with details of the paintings of Mikhail Romadin enrich me internally, remind me of the grandiose frescoes of the ancients. The hedge of brushes on the table (still life Brushes and money) is comparable to a row of spears that are brandished by riders on galloping horses in Renaissance paintings. ”Tonino Guerra. Tonino Guerra
Summary of an art lesson in grade 2 on the topic “Beauty is around us”
Author of the work: Sinidishkina Svetlana Vladimirovna, primary school teacher, secondary school No. 22, Republic of Mordovia, SaranskTarget: drawing a landscape, conveying mood through color, creating a certain color;
Tasks:
1.Educational:
consolidate the knowledge gained about deaf and voiced colors, about the technique of mixing primary colors;
continue mastering the technique of painting "poke".
2.Developing:
develop artistic taste, form creative abilities and the desire for creativity,
to promote the development of spatial thinking on the example of composition,
develop fine motor skills of the muscles of the hands, attention, clarity.
3.Educational:
cultivate accuracy, diligence;
cultivate artistic taste through the study of works of artists, fostering love for nature;
Master Class designed for everyone who is fond of creativity and loves to create beautiful, original and unique things with their own hands, use in art lessons, in extracurricular activities.
Purpose: interior decoration.
Technique:"poke", you can use "dab", "overlay"
Class type: thematic drawing in grade 2.
Teacher equipment:
1. Painting reproductions: Levitan I. Birch Grove. Polenov V. Butterflies.
Romadin N. Spring rain. Tolstoy F.
2.Computer, projector;
Equipment for students:
1.Album;
2. Gouache (watercolor) paints:
3. Banks with water;
4. Brushes.
Interdisciplinary connections: fine arts, literature.
Lesson type: consolidation of the past.
Conduct form: frontal, (joint-individual).
The course and structure of the lesson:
1. Organizational moment(psychological preparation of students for work in the classroom).
2. Definition of the topic, purpose and objectives of the lesson.
Teacher:
- Now let's look at reproductions of paintings by artists. Your task is to determine the topic of the lesson.
When viewing the pictures, questions to students are possible:
- Look at the colors of the paintings.
- Who can name this color scheme (deaf and sonorous warm colors)
Look carefully and describe what you see in this picture in words.
- See how the colors change.
Levitan I. Birch Grove.
Polenov V. Butterflies.
Romadin N. Spring rain.
Tolstoy F. Bouquet of flowers, butterfly and bird.
Teacher:
- So, what is the topic of the lesson?
Children:
- The theme of our lesson is "Spring".
- Spring landscape.
Teacher:
- What is a landscape?
Children:
- Image of the area.
Teacher:
- I remind you that we saw butterflies, and a bird, and a vase of flowers. (If the children do not answer, then help.)
Teacher:
- We will draw a landscape "Beauty around us" or "Beauty of a spring day".
3.Updating knowledge.
Teacher:
- To begin with, let's repeat what we already know when working with paints.
Answer options for children: gouache does not like water, watercolor, on the contrary, “aqua” - water, but when working with the “poke” technique, we don’t take much water, but only wet the brush, when depicting the spring landscape and the beauty around us, bright “voiced” colors are used.
4. Physical education minute.
Teacher:
- Before starting work, let's cheer up, gain strength to do all the work.
(speaking with movements)
We'll take a poke like this.
It's difficult? No, it's empty.
Up, down, right, left
We knocked with a poke,
Like girls in heels.
(Repeat if necessary)
5. Applying the learned rules and doing practical work.
Stage 1 - applying the background.
Teacher:
What color do we start with?
- Where does the work in the landscape begin?
(Children may have different answers)
Children:
- Draw the background.
- The sky is blue poke.
- The surface of the earth is green grass.
Drawing in white (mixing colors).
2. Stage - drawing the crown of trees.
Mix with white.
3. Stage - drawing details.
Teacher:
- What else can be depicted in the picture?
Children(possible answers):
- Flowers, birds, butterflies, sun, stream.
Teacher:
- Complete your composition yourself.
Teacher:
-What should be done if you do not have brown paint?
Children:
- Mix red and blue paint.
Mixing colors with white.
(During practical work, the teacher makes targeted rounds):
1) control of the organization of the workplace;
2) control of the correct implementation of work methods;
3) providing assistance to students experiencing difficulties;
4) quality control of the work performed.
6. Summing up.
Teacher:
- Attach your drawings to the board, under the drawing that you liked the most, put a plus sign.
Evaluating the work and expressing their points of view by the children (why did you like the drawing)
7. Reflection.
Teacher:
- Raise a jar of gouache paint of the color that will convey your mood and show if you liked the lesson:
Red- I liked it very much and it worked out for me.
Green- not very much and I need to practice drawing and mixing paints.
Blue I didn't like it and it didn't work for me.
Practice shows that all students cope with this type of work.
Teacher:
- Thank you for the lesson. The lesson is over.
Tidy up your workspace.
Once the writer Alexei Tolstoy came to the workshop of Nikolai Mikhailovich Romadin. He really liked the small landscape, he took it off the wall, looked at it for a long time and then uttered only one word: "Witchcraft!"
The future artist was born in Samara, in the family of a railway worker. His father was no stranger to painting, in moments of rest he took out paints, brushes - he painted pictures about the sea, which he had never seen. But he really did not want his son to become an artist - this profession, in his opinion, was not serious for a man. However, when his father was away, Kolya took his paints and brushes - then he could not be torn away from them. The father did not like this, a conflict was brewing in the family. In 1922, Nikolai gathered his simple belongings and left for Moscow to enter the Vkhutemas.
The angry father hardly imagined that his son would become a famous artist, that his modest pictorial experiments would become world heritage - in 1997, an unusual exhibition "Three generations of Russian artists Romadins" was held in the Spanish city of Seville, at which his paintings, Mikhail Andreevich, were exhibited , his son Nikolai and grandson Mikhail. The exhibition was a great success.
Nikolai Romadin, being a passionate, temperamental and addicted person, threw himself into painting from one extreme to another, tried everything in it - both thematic canvases on "topical" topics, and a portrait in which he achieved great recognition. His "Self-portrait", executed in 1948, is now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. A huge honor!
In the late 1930s, Romadin suddenly abandoned everything he had already created, which he could be quite proud of, and went into a pure landscape. With an easel, canvases, paints and brushes, with a small backpack, he disappeared for months in the northern, Central Russian and other distances and villages.
Exhibited at the first solo exhibition in 1940, his work showed a new, original name in Russian painting. A big event was the visit of the exhibition by Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov. The meeting was very important for the artist.
An unexpected and, perhaps, the highest award was a photograph of Levitan, Mikhail Vasilyevich handed it to Romadin with the words: "Levitan gave me a photograph as a successor to the traditions of the Russian landscape. Keep it, and then, when you see fit, pass it on to the young artist, who with honor can continue this line!"
During the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai Romadin created a large series of paintings "Volga - Russian River". Almost all of it is now in the Tretyakov Gallery. The same, however, as another significant pictorial series "The Season", created under the influence of Tchaikovsky's music and paintings by Claude Lorrain.
The painting "Kerzhenets", written in 1946, became a milestone in the artist's work. The most characteristic for him, the most romantic and mysterious. Its plot, at first glance, is very simple. The time of the spring flood, a dense forest, as if growing out of dark, gloomy water and frozen in some kind of agonizing expectation. And even a fragile boat with two human silhouettes does not disturb this magical, "Berende's" realm.
And "Kerzhenets", and other most significant works - "Kudinskoye Lake", "Yarensky Forest", "White Night", "Winter in Ostrovsky", "Senezh. Pink Winter", "Smart Winter", "Fog. Oka", " In the Ryazan places of Yesenin "are amazing in their emotional impact, in their subtlest figurative magic.
Evgraf END (from the article "The Witch's Lake of Nikolai Romadin")
Another Russian artist whose name was unknown to me.
Romadina N.M. called an outstanding Russian artist, a master of the lyrical Russian landscape.
Spring rain. 1967
Memories of Ventsianov
Thunderstorm, 1967
The formation of art N.M. Romadin, the son of an amateur artist, fell on the post-revolutionary years, when the influence of the avant-garde was gradually fading away. Romadin, at first the author of portraits and paintings of everyday genre, in the 1930s finds himself in a lyrical landscape, where it was possible to "hide" from the pathos of socialist realism, alien to the artist.
Bird cherry, 1971
high water
The brightest period of Romadin's art was the 1940-1950s, when his paintings were perceived as the development of the landscape line of the largest masters of this genre in the first half of the century - M.V. Nesterova, I.E. Grabar, N.P. Krymov. But Romadin is an original artist, able to peer into the motive almost to the point of dissolving in it - whether it is quite traditional views, as in the series "Volga - Russian River" (1949), "The Seasons" (1953), or, conversely, bewitching, mysterious corners ("Kerzhenets", 1946; "Flooded Forest", 1950s).
Kerzhenets, 1946
Flooded forest, 1970
spring stream
Berendey forest. 1978
Spring forest, 1956
N. M. Romadin died on April 10, 1987. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery.
Spring thicket, 1972
Spruce illuminated by the sun, 1964
Forest river, 1956
Willows in flood
pink spring
Fresh breeze
Forest Lake, 1959
Kudinsky lake
Khmelevka village
In Yesenin's native places, 1957
In the forest in winter. December. 1956
Ice-free river
Night longing, 1958
At the village council, 1957
