Landscape. Illustrations to Sergey Yesenin's collection of poems 'Bird-cherry tree' 1970

This landscape was made as an illustration for Sergey Yesenin's collection of poems 'Bird-cherry tree' by Hryhorii Havrylenko. Just looking at it, you can almost feel the artist, brush in hand, coaxing this scene into being. It’s like watching a memory form, hazy and indistinct, edges blurring into each other. There’s a softness to it, a quietness that’s really captivating. I can imagine the artist trying to evoke the feeling of a moonlit night, the air cool and still. I feel a kinship with Havrylenko as a fellow artist, knowing how he worked with those pale blues, peaches, and greens, layer upon layer, to create a world that’s both familiar and dreamlike. The paint is so thin and translucent; the painting almost feels like a watercolor, evoking a sense of melancholy. It makes me think about other landscape painters, like Gerhard Richter, who also capture that hazy, dreamlike quality. Each artist contributes something unique to our shared understanding of what it means to see and feel the world around us. Painting's like that, an ongoing conversation across time, a constant exchange of ideas and inspiration.