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Gennady Pavlov

Gennady Pavlov

Gennady Pavlov

Omsk, Russia

Graphic and calligrapher artist, designer, teacher

My Personal Understanding of Calligraphy

CALLIGRAPHY is not only the art of beautiful writing but an indicator of spiritual, moral and cultural development of the community. No wonder that the International Calligraphy Exhibition opens up now, in the period of the post-perestroika upswing in Russia. I am glad that this project, the vector of which is directed at spiritual improvement of the community, exists.

Calligraphy is Creativity.

It is for ages that people sought not only to state their thoughts in writing but to do it beautifully.

I remember my distant childhood when we drew letters with a fountain pen during calligraphy lessons with rapture. Of course, a schoolchild’s letters diligently drawn with a fountain pen are not yet calligraphy, but the reasonable seed of love for a beautiful letter was sown. A beautiful letter gives birth to a comprehensive, beautiful Word, which awakens a human soul that can create the Good.

It is difficult to imagine a templar, folk, decorative and applied art without an exquisitely beautiful ligature of words that cozily stationed themselves on the surface of works of art and utilitarian items. It fills them with sense and directs a creator and a reader to new creative actions.

Calligraphy is not only the art of beautiful writing – it is the past, present and future. A skillfully designed message used to shape and is shaping the attitude to what is written. This is the indicator of the spiritual, moral and cultural development of the community. The absence of elemental skills of beautiful and literate writing testifies to cultural deterioration.

A man has been unnoticeably barred from handwriting on paper, under the pressure of computer technologies. The problems of beautiful and literate writing became obvious. Where is the outcome? Life experience prompts: one should start from school. It is at school that the foundation of love for beautiful writing, a beautiful book, to art is laid down. It is there that the spirituality of a Russian national takes shape.

Author works

The True Cross of the Lord, sheet 28

Paper, calligraphic ink, water-colours, sharp-pointed nib pen, brush, 31х31 cm, 2010

The Tree of Life. Sheet No. 2, “Knots” series

Designer paper, color ink, pen, 32x32 cm, 2008

The Four Seasons. Paper 2

Designer paper, color ink, pen, 28x28 cm, 2007

The True Cross of the Lord, sheet 6

Designed paper, color ink, pen, 25x25 cm, passé-partout offset + silk screening decoration, 2003

Ognevushki-poskakushki (Firies-hoppies)

Designer paper, color ink, pen, 28,5x28,5 cm, 2007

The True Cross of the Lord, sheet 14


Time. Temple-man

Designed paper, color ink, pen, 29x39 cm, 2006

The True Cross of the Lord, sheet 25

Paper, ink, sharp-pointed nib pen, 21x21 cm, 2009

Glory to God in the highest...

Designer paper, coloured ink, pen, 26x36 cm, 2009

Application to become a member of the National Union of Calligraphers

Birch bark, sharp-pointed nib pen, 19x23.8 cm, 2009

Christ is Risen!

Calligraphic ink, sharp-pointed nib pen, 21.0x29.5 cm, 2009

A Siberian Apple

Ink, watercolour, pen, brush, 48x52 cm, 2014.

Life Energy

Ink, watercolour, pen, brush, 35x50 cm, 2013.

Bound ornament

A book.
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