Video: Paintings by a blind artist
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
At first glance, the pictures presented in this article do not seem worth paying special attention to. The thing that can make you take a closer look at them is the story of their author, the blind Kharkov artist Dmitry Didorenko.
Dmitry was not blind from birth: he lost his sight after being blown up by an old German mine while searching for the remains of soldiers missing in World War II. Before that, Didorenko was already known as an artist, but the tragedy that happened dashed all his hopes for the future future. To get Dmitry out of depression, one of his friends suggested organizing an exhibition of the artist's old works. It was this event that pushed our hero to take up the brush again - he wanted to prove that he is still an artist, even if he has lost his sight. At first, his works were not much like paintings, but many hours of practice gave their results: Dmitry began to paint again.
“When I first saw the work of Dmitry Didorenko, I felt ashamed of how often we complain about life and its injustice towards us,” says Valentina Myzgina, director of the Kharkov Art Museum. “After all, all this time we continue to see the world around us, and Dmitry cannot see it, but he doesn’t complain, but works.”
The artist admits that the plots of the paintings come to him on their own, sometimes he even dreams, and he only has to choose the best of them. And the most important thing for him is to see the results of his work, no matter how paradoxical it may sound: “I see what I draw, just as clearly and legibly as others. The only difference is that I do not use my eyes, but use my heart."
Now on account of the blind artist 250 paintings, some of which are quite highly appreciated by critics and are in private collections around the world.
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