Small art school
 Not
far from Minsk a town, a little
older than Moscow, nestles, small
and cosy. In the faraway past it was called Koidanovo, in the last decades it
is called Dzerzhinsk. Here an art school was open, where since 1986 the
Faculty of Arts has been functioning. The number of students is 50 odd. It
has only two teachers: a draftsman and post-artist Vladimir Scherbin and an
architector Natalia Ermolovich.
A tradition, not regulated by the established
currcula, flourishes in Dzerzhinsk: the students of Natalia Ermolovich and
Vladimir Scherbin with enviable constancy partake in regional, republican and
international exibitions. For ten and a half years the school cupboards have
accumulated an admirable collection of awards from many parts of the world.
The work of young Koidanovo artists can be found in private collections in
Germany, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Poland, the USA, in the Embassy of
Turkey in Belorus, at the collectors' of Minsk and Petersburg.
It is hardly imaginable how much persistence,
creativity and patience the two teachers have had to manifest to achieve the
present results of their iniative and make them obvious and significant. The
young artist have always had and now have a lot to present. Let's peer at
“The meeting of Baba-Yaga and Don Quixote” by Kolya Bondarik, at the roaring
lion by Vova Khachaturian, at the pictures by Valerij Kabanov and Kirill
Scherbin, based on Pushkin's poems, at the pictures on fairytale motives by
Andrei Benediktovich, at the out-of-the-ordinary birds by Katya Khramtsova
and Tanya Zolotar, at “Kolyady” by Lena Khanetskaya, at “Evening song” by Ira
Baturo, at compositions by Natasha Kotik, Pavel Morozov, Pavel Lavruschik, at
“Fish market” and “Belorussian bath-house” by Pavel Zablotskij and his his
illustrations to M.A.Bulgakov's “Master and Margarite”– one instantly feels
not only the high professionalism of the performers but, first and foremost,
theyt are fascinated by their flight of creativity.
With a child's curiousity and adult's
earnestness ten-year-old Maxim Miasnikov has contemplated on an Old Testment
page. He called his etching “126 Babylon
builders”. With subtle strokes he accomplished the figures and faces of
numerous bricklayers, plasteres, labourers, horses and even idlers, intrigued
by an unprecedented sight. The work is in full swing, the human ant-hill is
swarming and it is clearly felt that all the builders still speak the same
language and understand each other perfectly. Small is the sheet, no more
than thirty sentimeters in height, but each figure and each face out of 126
is distinct and clear. High is the
Tower of Babylon but it is not
higher than the all-seeing eye of the God. The enlarged figures of the angels
on gusrd, one of them is armed with a flashing sword, are prophetic sings of
what is in store for this rebellios crowd of the possessed impios. Not long
ago, on December 9, 1999,
in Jerusalem in the Biblical
Garden on the Biblical Mount a tree was planted in honour of young artist
Maxim Miasnikov.
His colour engraving on linoleum Kirill
Scherbin call “The inmates of my house”. Rich in inmates is  the house of the
artist. Here one can see a parrot Molika of unusual breed, so big in size
that his tail won't fit the cage, and a long-eared, contemplative spaniel
Bim, and a round-faced good-naturally knavish cat Tramp, and a sharp-nosed
mouse and an under-stove cockroach. All of them thrive in the house where the
young artist lives. Blessed is the one, sharing his habitat with the bird and
the beast. And blessed is the young talent who has shared his discovery of
the world through the child's eyes.
The quantity of the painting and prints
accumulated in the school cupboard in difficult to describe. For ten and a
half years young artists have exhibited their works in fourteen countries.
In 1989 a documentary film “A Taciturn”, telling
us about a pupil of the school Oksana
Prazetskaya, was shot by “Belarusfilm” studio. The film was demonstrated by
Italian and Portugese television.
If we really want to learn from the folk, we
should, undoubtedly, learn from children too. The exhibitions of children
works are the prime place to do it.
Art critic Kirill Zelenoi
 Vladimir Scherbin
was born in 1950 in Cheliabinsk-40
He took his first drawing lessons in Stavropol from
Rodion Nikandrovich.
1965-69 the studies in Penza Pedagogical College
(the fuculty of Arts).
His teachers were Borisov B.D. and Dondurei D.B.
1973-77 the studies in Penza Art College.
His teachers were Siverin, Khudiakov V.I. and
Bujalskaya L.N.
1977-83 the studies at Belorussian State Institute
of Art and Drama (the graphic arts) in the classes of Kalmaeva L.M. and
Sheverova A.K.
Member of a Union of Artists
 Natalia ERMOLOVICH
was born in 1958 in Dzerzhinsk
The first teacher, who showed patience and love for
drawing was her father.
She is a graduate of BSPA (the faculty of
Architecture).
She was converted into a worshipper of fine arts and
turned into a person devoted to her work by Yuri Alexandrovich Karachuk.
Since 1988 I've been living and breathing only for a
small white school house, in which children create.
Awards
The
Pupils of the school has won at the native and international competitions:
Grand
prix 4
medals
of different value 29
«Golden
palette»’s 6
diplomas
284
In 1999
in honour
Maxim
Miasnikov,
Victor
Salenik and
Ekaterina
Khramtsova
the
trees were planted
in
the Biblical Garden of Jerusalem.
THE INTERNATIONAL
COMPETITIONS
and
GROUP EXHIBITIONS,
in
which the pupils
of
the school participated
1
The Competition of children’s art of Zank gallery - 1990 (Hungary,
Balaton)
2
Exhibition - auction of helping Chernobyl children - 1992 (Holland,
Amsterdam)
3
«God - My friend» - 1993 (Belarus, Minsk)
4
«The Underwater fantasies» - 1993, 1994, 1995 (The Ukraine, Donetsk)
5
«The Colours of friendship» - 1993, 1995 (Poland, Torun)
6
The International biennial of children’s and youth graphic works -
1994, 1996, 1998 (Poland, Torun)
7
The Regional exhibition of art schools - 1994, 1998 (Belarus)
8
«Jerusalem is - 3000 years old» - 1995 (Israel)
9
The International exhibition of children’s art - 1995 (China, Pekin)
10 The International competition of children
graphic works - 1996, 1998, 2000 (Germany, Schwedt-am-Oder)
11 «Small Bitolsky Monmartre» - 1996, 1997,
1998, 1999, 2000 (Macedonia)
12 «10 years after Chernobyl tragedy» - 1996
(Belarus, Minsk)
13 «Horses» - 1997, 1998, 1999 (Slovenia,
Shtore)
14 «Slavonic Brethren» - 1997 (Russia,
Moscow)
15 The International exhibition of children’s
art - 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 (Japan, Tokyo)
16 The Competition in honour of the 50th
anniversary of the Declaration of human rights - 1998 (Belarus, Minsk)
17
The Competition of children pictures of the Uley’s gallery - 1998 (Russia,
Moscow)
18 The international festival of children’s
creativity «Pushkin’s Muse» - 1999 (Lithuania, Vilnius)
19 «The Colours of the Earth» - 1999
(Belarus, Minsk, The Museum of modern art)
20 The European art competition «The delight
of Europe» - 1998, 2000 (Yugoslavia, Belgrad)
21 The Competition in honour of Pushkin’s 200
anniversary (Belarus - Russia)
22 The world exhibition of children pictures
- 1999, 2000 (Taiwan, Taibei)
23 «The Children of the world are painting
«Tanah» - 1999 (Israel, Jerusalem)
24 The International children and youth art
exhibition - 2000 (Finland, Huvinkaa)
25 The Competition in honour of Yesus
Christ’s 2000 anniversary «The Children are painting Bible», «My Land» - 2000
(Russia, Vladimir)
26 The Competition of the Museum of
children’s art - 1998 (Germany, Berlin)
INDEPENDENT
EXHIBITIONS
1988,
1990, 1991, 1993, 1995-1998 - Dzerzhinsk
1997
- Prilep (Macedonia), gallery of a House of Culture
1997
- Minsk, Pushkin regional library
(together with Slutsk art school)
1999
- Belgrad (Yugoslavia), pedagogical museum
2000 - Moscow (Russia),
gallery «The Ulei»
Addresses
Belarus. The Minsk province of Dzerjinsk Children's
art school.
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