Sunday, July 9, 2023

Rudolf Mikolayovich Lekalov (ЛЕКАЛОВ Рудольф Миколайович)

Rudolf Mykolayovych Lekalov (1933 - 2021 ) was a Ukrainian graphic artist and journalist.

Lekalov studies at the Leningrad Arts School. Lekalov is called the Willow Artist, as he created so many drawings of this trees. The famous critic, writer Volodymyr Dyachkov recorded this in the title of his essay about the Lekalov: "Anxieties of the Heart in a blaze of willows".

The poetess Tamara Severnyuk titled her story about the Lekalov "Willow Flights of Years", while the writer Giorgii Shevchenko dedicated to him the poem "Willow blizzard", which contains the following lines:

These willows drink water like horses,

These willows have sprouted into the heart.

And they dry their clothes on the willow tree, like ambassadors of unknown and pure Lands,

Lands of love and goodness.


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