Anna Gryaznova. "Shades of Silence"

Prize-winning personal exhibition based on the results of the competition for young artists "Muse Must Work 2019".

The fragility of being is an important line that Anna tries to carry through all her graphic sheets. The unique beauty of the passing moment is hidden in the frozen moment of the life of the sleeping villages, in the silence of the backwaters of its landscapes. The artist is interested in the task of displaying beauty in everyday, everyday life, in scanty nature with its dim lighting, gray days with early twilight, faded colors of a dying summer, when the struggle of the quivering life with the coming winter torpor is not over; rains, cold fogs, wilting time. Anna as a creator is occupied by the sad charm of the Russian landscape, full of silence and thoughtfulness, in which everything is calm, harmonious and at the same time a little sad.

The graphic sheets of A. Gryaznova are united by a solitary state, a contemplative look, a certain detachment. Hence the name of the exhibition "Shades of Silence". The works are mostly variations of quiet, secluded landscape motifs. The graphics, calm in rhythm, make the viewer delve into himself. In graphic sheets, the author moves away from the image of the momentary moment, delving into the figurative characterization, and seeks to fill the work with a rich emotional content - poetry, a mood of sadness, longing. Anna's works do not pretend to be "effect" and catchy. The author, more attractive than semitones, is the poetry of black and white, the beauty of the silvery-gray scale, the subtlest sounds of tone relations.

The graphic images reflect the impressions of A. Gryaznova's earlier trips to Veliky Ustyug, Tomsk, Veliky Novgorod, Karelian and Komi villages. The attractiveness of the halftones of the white night and the gray northern color of nature is consonant with the author's graphics. Everything is gray and colorless, but this colorlessness, these overflows of gray tones have its own charm and poetry. The author tries to find touching features in the subtlest vibrations of light and air, the atmosphere clearly characterizing the northern edge and emphasize its true charm, sometimes hidden from view. Landscapes are often full of thoughts, as if memories of something disappeared and irrevocable pass before the viewer.