Michael Karpuk: Motherland's Landscapes

"In art, I am monogamous," Mikhas Karpuk declared. "I paint only unique landscapes of my native Belarus." Only a blind person can perceive and experience the singular beauty of Belarusian nature, which is remarkably unique, inventive, and yet thoughtfully poetic and melancholic. The artist's attachment to the Motherland's landscapes is unavoidable. He has painted numerous landscapes in the areas of Brest, Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev, and Minsk.

The artist traveled extensively over Europe, including Russia, Uzbekistan, the Caucasus, Crimea, Ukraine, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Germany, Sweden, and Poland, all while staying true to the Belarusian nature he was familiar with as a child. The artist was genuinely drawn to it, and it is expertly captured on canvases and graphic sheets.

Michael Karpuk was born in 1930 in the village of Mykshytsy in the Brest region, close to the town of Vysokaye (Lvtovskoye), where a magnificent park and the remnants of an old castle still stand. He has been drawing constantly since he was a child. He attended the Minsk Art School from 1948 to 1956 and then the graphics department of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute from 1956 to 1962.

The establishment of Belarusian Television is linked to the start of the artist's artistic endeavors. The artist-director's variety of work includes films, television plays, children's programs, concerts, and literary creations. Michael Karpuk, after more than 15 years of hard work, "made a picture" for several works, including "Song of Music" by Yakub Kolas, "Yakov Bogomolov" by M. Gorky, "The Collapse" based on the play by L. Tolstoy, "Weavers," "The Whole Royal Army" by R. P. Warren, and many more.

Since 1963, Michael Karpuk has been a regular participant in art exhibitions, and since 1969, a member of the Union of Artists. In 1971, he produces a creative image for the memorial house-museum of Adam Mickiewicz in Navahradak.

He started working as a production designer at the Belarusfilm film studio in 1972. There, he created films including "Parachutes on Trees," "Annushka," "The End of the Woman's Summer," "The Last Summer of Childhood," and others.

Michael Karpuk has been working on creative projects at the film studio since 1983. The artist's many years of experience working in television and film studios have enhanced his observations and impressions, helped him hone his compositional abilities, enabled him to view the environment in depth, in space, and with a wealth of details, and enabled him to identify motifs in the artistic solutions of works. Numerous cities in Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, and Sweden have displayed the artist's creations.

The artist's works are in museums and private collections in Belarus, Poland, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Luxembourg, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Syria, the USA, and Canada.