Education
Graduate of the Belarusian Academy of Arts, director of children's art studio - winner of diplomas and other awards of international contests of children's art.
Graduate of the Belarusian Academy of Arts, director of children's art studio - winner of diplomas and other awards of international contests of children's art.
Rishard May has never worked as a designer. He has become a head of the Public Children's Arts Studio. One of the reasons for this choice is the desire to understand the secrets of children's psychology. The master does not take part in any artistic associations. He is sure that only freedom can help to be creative. It took him much time to realize it. Children made it possible because of their honesty.
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It could be said about artist Rishard May that freedom, love and internal necessity run his hand.
The essential of his creative work in fact its true nature and giving it vitality is a frank expression of feeling. The feeling dictates the form, being spontaneous and full of vague accusations and the color exceeding the bounds of the object generated by it and turning into some alchemical substance, materia prima, with mystery and strength of its own. Even the process of putting paint sometimes thick and fat or thin and transparent, sometimes like a saturated with color of pale, sometime like a lash, sometimes flowing and melodious forming neither closed nor visible contours excites, troubles, acquires the property of living creature with will of own calligraphy and therefore is not under control of anybody, even the artist.
Rishard May is a unique person. He is very strong, not really easy-going. Like a real master he knows that a word can kill or inspire. His attitude to his works of art is rather curious. The artist does not hasten to name his works of art: he is a witness but not an interpreter of emergent apparitions. It would be just in time to mention the worlds of the French poet Stefan Mallarme lived at the end of the 19th century: “To name the object means to destroy the poetic pleasure by three fourth, which is the bliss of gradual guessing; to excite it that is a dream”.
What is named, that is completed, but for Rishard May the creative process is continues, and the fact that a blank canvas becomes a picture , and then it changes again into the blankness on the easel for to gain life of “Painting Reality” again, proves this continuity. Moreover, creating without giving names the artist seems to invite the spectator to join in the sensible and intimate creative act, to feel the inspiring unconscious impulses, wide and vague semantic borders that can charm or tear away but not leaving indifferent.
Quotes from others about the person
Unknown: "Rishard May made me a person I am. He is my second mum".
He is married and has a son.