Abstract
The article is devoted to the work of the outstanding Russian master of art P.G. Dik. He made a significant contribution, creating a large number of wonderful pastel-novels. The creative method of the artist is reconstructed in the article. It is shown how in the course of creative comprehension sketches and preparatory drawings are transformed into finished, profound works. On the basis of diaries, memoirs, analysis of preparatory sketches shows the way, the artist's thoughts to the composition that carries philosophical reasoning, the birth of the image, the active use of metaphorical language in art in the transition from concrete to abstract.
References
- «Man is important to me, the atmosphere of the world ...». Interview with Lyudmila Marz with Pyotr Dik. Petr Dik. Khudozhestvennoe nasledie [Pyotr Dik. Art heritage]. Moscow, 2005.
- From the notes of the artist. Archive of K.S. Limonova – widow of the artist.



