Savva, Barbara and Clara
Savva Dmitriyev
is a Russian boy from Moscow-city.
He is now only 13 y.o. (b.1985) and he has no special education.
However, looking at his graphics one hardly say
that these are not the works of an adult and of a professional.
His drawings are hand-made in pen and ink
originally black&white. Then they are scanned
and sometimes computer painted.
He does not make any preliminary work e.g. in pencil.
All his drawings, includings more complicated such as Rusland,
are actually improvizations. (Meanwhile, the latter was made
when he was 11 y.o.)
He makes them not from an ambition
or for the sake of a praise
but out of some inner wants.
He never grinds them out of himself.
This is a product of a pure harmony and self-consistency.
One does not know what to wonder more -
the perfect artistic line or the subject-matter of a picture.
Indeed, where does he take from these mysterious creatures,
the coats of ancient arms, decors or e.g. the scene of the
slavetrade
as it could occur in Babylon or Phoenicia?
Perhaps, this is the voice of remote ancestors ...
February 1999
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