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Only an ignorant can fail to see and feel deeply the unique charm of Belarusian nature, which is curiosly remarkable, peculiar and simultaneously thoughtfully poetical and sentimental.
Starting with Ya. Kupala and Ya. Kolas, many masters of native word have devoted a great number of inspired poems, but it should be recodnized that in the fine arts our native is reflected very and very decently.
Various graphic and oil-painted landscapes created by the famous Belarusian graphic artist ang painter Mikhal Andreyavich Karpuk raise insistently the question on the national school of Belarusian landscape and reflect its state at the present stage. In spite of the extensive map of the geographic routes of the artist, who has travelled over the most part of European Russia, Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khivy, Caucasia, Crimea, Moldova, Ukraine, Baltic republic, ets., he has abided by the Belarusian nature known since the childhood.
«l have the sole love in the arts, says Mikhal Karpuk. I paint only unique landscape of native Belarus.*
Indeed, the artist's inclination to landscapes of the Motherlad cannot fail to touch. He painted many times the landscapes of Bierascie, Harodnia, Homiel and Miensk regions, many hundreds of sketches, drawings, and complicated composition solutions.
They attract the creator in the right way, and being reflected in masterly fashion on canvas or graphic sheets, they make the viewer to experience again and again the feeling of Motherland.
The best works created by M. Karpuk were exhibited at the personal exhibitions in Miensk, Bierascie, Vysokaje, Babrujsk, Mazyr, Potacak, Usacy, Harodnia. They were seen by inhabilitants of Lithuania (Panevezis, Siauliai, Silale), Poland (Bielastok, Gdansk, Gdynia, Sopat, Toruh), Sweden (Alwesta).
The art critic Ya. Suniejka has called everything created by M. Karpuk as a «Portrait of the Native Land». "The monumental series of landscapes consisting of hundreds works is not only beautiful pictures from native intended for passive contemplation, they give great cognitive and compose in general the graphic panorama of the native land - our common invaluable wealth that we must not loss" (Motherland's Voice, January 25,1985).
Mikhal Karpuk was born in 1930 in Bierascie region, in a smal picturesque village Myksycy that is near the borough of Vysokaje, where the ruins of an ancient castle and wonderful park have remained to our time.
He studied at Miensk School of Arts (1948-50 and 1953-56) and then in Moscow Polygraphic institute (1956-62).
Mikhal Andreyavich has devoted 25 years to the creative work as art director of Belarusian television and cinema. He has designed artistically a great number of telecasts, performances, cinema and concert programmes, and television performances.
Acting as an art director, M. Karpuk took part in creation of feature serials at the «Belarusfilm» Film Studio (1972-83). "
The People's Artist of Belarus, akademician Ya. Camadurau says: «Displaying the carability of designing the small-form telecasts or television serials, M. Karpuk seeks permanently new forms of expressiveness and constructive solutions. I may not fail to remember the television film «Crash», which was repeatedly broadcasted by the Central Television and has got the acknowledgment by the television audience of the whole Contry.»
Long-term work of Mr. Mikhal Karpuk at the «Belarusfilm» Film Studio has not passed without leaving a trace for him. It helped him to develop the composition mastery, see skilfully the landscape «in depth», in the space, in the riches of details, to find motives, to achieve the artistic perfection of the works.
The various works created by M. Karpuk give us the joy and feeling of very serious, deep and significant thing - contakt with the native nature, immortal image of the Motherland.
V. F. Smatau, Doctor of Fine Arts
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