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Dynasty of artists Lyssenko - Tereshenko

A creative impulse inheres in Andrey Lyssenko’s painting. It can be seen in his skill to create something new, original, and inspiring not out of nothing, but on the basis of something that has existed. Before a picture materializes, in the soul of the painter with the help of some special life-giving force the impulse of the art itself should arise like an inner voice.

Andrey Lyssenko, as a painter, considers nature to be a source of inspiration and harmony; it is not an object that should be copied mechanically. Ask him about his personal attitude to nature as substance. He is afraid of it, he worships it. But his fear is reverential. He copies nature, but he does it in a creative way, not in a subservient, slavish one.
The painter adheres to the following principle: his art should be logical and energetic, and the basic idea of good should not be distorted by alien personal aims, it should not be ousted by them. That’s why it takes a lot of time to conceive each painting. Before a creative idea turns into a picture, it should mature, form, be nurtured.
Orthodoxy as a theme of Andrey’s paintings does not lighten his work. Furthermore, it deprives him of some easy means of expression, of hackneyed solutions, blocks the beaten tracks. But it improves his craftsmanship. Having chosen his lot, he should obey austere rules. It is not according to his moral principles to divert attention from the path of art. He bewares not only of the tempting easy ways and success, but of a least reduction in his inner creative straining. He knows that pauses in work turn the flood of ideas into a trickle. So does the carelessness which prevents a picture from meeting the rigorous requirements of the painter.
As for the freedom to portray a historical event or a period piece, the object being portrayed is just a material. The main thing in Andrey’s works is that not only intellect and technique matter, but his emotions and imagination also. On his canvases he depicts some mood which cannot be expressed in words. This is the very thing which painters call “your own point of sight”.
A. Boldman