The “White nights” series was created by Simon Gulyako’s after the graduation of High Industrial Applied Arts school named after V.Muchina. His creative approaches were approved by the professors personnel of the school, who were the disciples of K.Malevich, K.Petrov-Vodkin, K.Rudakov and other famous Russian-Soviet artists. Their authority, talent, and fame couldn’t left their pupils without touch and Simon Gulyako was also influenced by the power of their talent. Being born in Leningrad, in the unique area, where in June is no sunset, Simon Gulyako created hundreds of landscapes in the Leningrad region, reflecting this nature phenomenon. The color transparency, clever compositions, made this series the best-seller and visit card of the «White nights» the artist Simon Gulyako. The displayed 25, small-sized 15x20 compositions, tempera on paper are unique, because they were never repeated by the author after 80-s.

Lena Senina