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RE: A RUSSIAN MODERN MYSTIC - NICHOLAS ROERICH
11/29/2010 7:23:43 PM
What wonders this man gave us.
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Luis Miguel Goitizolo

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RE: A RUSSIAN MODERN MYSTIC - NICHOLAS ROERICH
12/5/2010 10:32:52 AM
A trio of beautiful paintings. A gouache, a pastel and an oil.

Of the three, my favorite is 'Boats on the River'. It would be difficult to find a more beautiful and accomplished painting with that theme. The second suggests an easy execution, but to me at least, it is close to perfection in its apparent simplicity. Nicholas Roerich was certainly not afraid of experimenting. Note that his 'Cannon Man' is of 1894, virtually in the beginning of his carreer.

Nicholas Roerich - Boats on the River (1910-s, gouache on paper)

Nicholas Roerich - Burial Mound (1909, pastel, charcoal on paper)

Nicholas Roerich - Cannon Man (1894, oil on canvas)


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Roger Macdivitt .

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RE: A RUSSIAN MODERN MYSTIC - NICHOLAS ROERICH
12/5/2010 3:46:47 PM

Luis,

What wonderfully differing styles.

I think that the hardest thing to teach and understand is that difference between expression, pictorial accuracy and composition and colour.

At one time I could not understand why an artist capable of the understanding of his medium would paint the Cannon Man and then paint something like Burial Mound because the completion time is probably vastly different and the result so different.

I know understand (at least, on most occassions) and revel in that knowledge.

Roger

p.s.

In Cannon Man, I didn't realise that they could text message people in 1894

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RE: A RUSSIAN MODERN MYSTIC - NICHOLAS ROERICH
12/5/2010 4:09:13 PM

Hello Miguel,

Have been missing you. So happy to see you back with these wonderful paintings in 3 mediums. He really could use anything to make a masterpiece.

I love the richness of the colors in this one but all the others are great.

(Roger, do you have cellphones on the brain?) Does look like it though!

Sara

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RE: A RUSSIAN MODERN MYSTIC - NICHOLAS ROERICH
12/6/2010 1:06:38 AM
My dear Sara and Roger,

I have been missing you all these days too, almost as much as I have Nicholas Roerich's artwork.

This morning, in searching for more of his paintings to show you, once again I was astonished at their huge number. In fact, I was just starting letter 'C' and had already been able to pick those three beautiful works, so similar in their quality but also so different from each other.

However, I missed the cellphone... I promise not to miss any other detail of his works from now on.

Here are three other paintings, all of them temperas but on different support. They differ from one another in style too.


Nicholas Roerich - Clouds. Study (1928, tempera on panel)

Nicholas Roerich - Confucious the Just One (1925, tempera on canvas)


Nicholas Roerich - Crossroads of Christ and Buddha (1925, tempera on canvas)

"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)

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