Nikolai Kormašov
(1929–2012)
Summer. 1985
Oil, acrylic, gold plating, cardboard. 91 x 84.5 cm (framed)
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Nikolai Kormašov pursued his own agenda in Estonian art, which was unique, and it seems that it was allowed only to him. While religion was officially banned during the Soviet period, Nikolai Kormašov went on expeditions to northern Russia to save icon art that would otherwise have been destined for destruction. Thus was born a unique collection of icons, which today is of interest internationally. But not only that, in the painting work of Nikolai Kormašov himself, one can find sincere connections with icon art. The same applies here in Suvi (Summer), a painting from the series of seasons in Pechory. A somewhat paradisiacal image of rural life, where everything is, in our understanding, ecological and sustainable, and environmentally friendly and healthy and climate-friendly. The gold colour in the background of the painting directly refers to the idea of paradise.