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ALEXEI
KUZMICH
THE FAMOUS CREATOR of
'BELARUSIAN MADONNAS'
Alexei Kuzmich has dedicated his life to praising
Madonnas, for, in his opinion, women who have children have worked a miracle
similar to the one performed by Mary: the nine months of their non-stop
day and night work and pains of delivery resulted in creating a new human
being.
"Happiness of maternity... How often there
is no place for it in our lives. Live is too tough, and women have to struggle
for survival. They do not feel happy in this world created by men and for
men. They try to compete with men, they fight for equality, forgetting
that they are divine. They shouldn't fight - it is men, who should understand
the special role of women and make them happy..."
This is the key idea of Kuzmich's paintings.
He believes, that it was not his choice, but Madonna's. He says, that he
paints what he sees, and only after gives an interpretation to his picture.
This was the way how he came to realize the problem of women in contemporary
society. He is convinced that the future civilization will the one where
women play a leading role, for it is only women who can stop the wars and
violence and transform hatred into love and cruelty into tenderness.
He takes close to his hart everything what happened
to his mother, who had to bring up alone seven children, for his father
died from wounds soon after the end of the W.W.II, when Alexei, the youngest
child in the family, was only 18 months old. He feels pity for his sisters
and treats every woman he meets in his life like a sister to compensate
for the difficulties in their lives. He warships his wife Inez (it is her
image that you see in the majority of paintings) who is the mother of his
two children.
Although he was born and spent his childhood
in a village, Alexei Kuzmich had a chance to learn about art very early.
He was greatly influenced by two artists, Anatoly Rubanovich, a friend
of his father's, who studied in Warsaw, Paris, and Vienna and brought back
with him to the Belarusian village the reproductions of works by Titian,
Velasquez, Van Gogh and other masters, and his cousin Stephan Kuzmich,
a talented amateur painter.
Later, at the Belarusian Academy of Art, he learned
a lot from such prominent Belarusian painters as Anatoly Baranovsky, Natan.
Voronov, Peter Krokhalev, I. Stasevich.
Alexei Kuzmich is well known in Moscow and St.Petersbourg,
where his exhibitions are always a success. In 1991 by invitation of Paul
and Sheron Moor, President and Vice-President of the City-Hope Society,
his exhibition was organized New York. After this trip he arrived at a
conclusion: it is not the money that make people happy. In America people
are wealthier, but are they happier? All people regardless of their nationality
and social position need love, affection, family and God - without these
happiness is impossible. He wands to bring this idea to the harts and minds
of people all over the world. He remained faithful to his theme and to
his ideas throughout different periods in life regardless of all the difficulties
and will go on promoting Love, Peace, Maternity, Madonnas.
ALEXEI
KUZMICH
