The artist is Ermolaev
In the first half of the 1930s b. N. Ermolaev creates a whole gallery of portrait images of the Red Navy and marine commanders. The “sea theme” entails him almost from his youth: Ermolaev shared his studies in art workshops with the work of the sailor in the trading port. Being a first-class draftsman, Ermolaev in the painting of the 1930s seeks to follow the traditions of naive art, consciously subordinating this task to his artistic skills. Working on field sketches in the conditions of the workshop, he lovingly and carefully prescribes his characters, at the same time almost depriving them of material reality, creating a condensed atmosphere of the special world of his painting like his contemporary Andrei Platonov did in his prose. (T. H.).
Russian portrait. XX century: St. Petersburg, 2001. WITH. 226.
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The exhibition of Nico Pirosmanishvili in the Russian Museum had a strong impact on the formation of the picturesque language of Ermolaev. The artist and previously gravitated to the forms of naive art, sign, bast, to such professional masters as small Dutch or a.Venetians, who retained in their works a stable and clear look at the subject of the image. Working on field sketches in the conditions of the workshop, he lovingly and carefully prescribes his characters, at the same time almost depriving them of material reality, creating a condensed atmosphere of the special world of his painting like his contemporary Andrei Platonov did in his prose.
