On the Issue of the Painting Technique of the Marine Artist V.I. Shilyaev
Seascape is a special genre of painting. To show the vivid life of the sea is not an easy task for an artist. The creative heritage of marine painters not only delights, but also encourages modern artists to look for their own style, to develop their own painting technique to achieve it. The author analyzes the genesis of the special manner of the Far Eastern marine painter V.I. Shilyaev in the representation of a live transformation of the sea wave, attempts to characterize his original painting technique to perform a frozen in time moment of life of the dynamic volume on the plane of the canvas. Maintaining the creative tradition of the great marinists of the past, V.I. Shilyaev filled his works with patriotic content of self-identification of the Russian Far East, developed the art of depicting legendary ships on an aesthetically irresistible sea wave. The author claims that the mixed improvisational technique of visualizing the constantly changing volume and color of the sea wave is V.I. Shilyaev's innovative contribution to the achievements of the Russian seascape painting school.