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    Behind his Pictures
    Behind his Pictures
    Behind his Pictures
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    Behind his Pictures

    By Eeli Aalto

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    The book "Behind his Pictures" describes vividly, along with many pictures, what all the 85-year-old visual artist has done. He has done everything in the field of visual art; first he studied, then he taught, wrote, painted, sculpted, made TV films, books, founded a Nordic cultural magazine, wrote in a newspaper, and blogged in the web. Rich and high-quality artwork makes the book easy to read. It includes the growth of a Vyborish boy with his pictures from a 3-year-old child to a 85-year-old, vibrant old man. Aalto has touched and influenced an astonishing number of lives, and he has accomplished much. He is a true Renaissance man.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateDec 14, 2018
    ISBN9789528054849
    Behind his Pictures
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    Eeli Aalto

    Eeli Aalto was born in Vyborg on February 6, 1931. After the Winter War, the family fled from Vyborg to Oulu. After graduating from Lyseo secondary schoolof Oulu, he started his art studies at the Finnish Academy of Arts in Helsinki, continuing his studies at the André Lhote Academy in Paris. After returning to Oulu, he was eager to develop the city's cultural life. Aalto painted, carved, made TV shows, taught - everything he did was rooted in his artistic outlook. He was also known for his TV films. Among them, notably, Jussi award. Finally, he painted 100 pictures of the Oulu series, where his son Markus made one of the first online exhibitions in the world in 1998. In 2012, Aalto received the Golden Roulette Award for the Oulu cultural person. Aalto has also written a book about artist Vilho Lammesta and Reidar Särestöniemi.

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      Behind his Pictures - Eeli Aalto

      When Giorgio Morandi was asked why he does not do abstract art, he answered that nothing is as abstract as reality.

      I thank Taina and Markus Aalto for your contribution

      to making this book.

      To Airi

      In our time, with everything disappearing from sight faster and faster, we are talking about sustainable development. We would like some of the best sides of our lives to survive us, but are there any? The most vigorous development takes place in rearmament, war, with a belief that it will bring peace to the world. What if it did? Would we know how to live in a time of lasting peace? I am telling about myself, about the way I see life. Does it have any purpose other than gathering earthly wealth? I think it does.

      Eeli in Kesvalahti 1934.

      We spent our summers at Kesvalahti in Ladoga Karelia. My father, formerly a tailor, was working as a taxi driver in Vyborg. He brought us to spend some time with mother’s relatives on holidays. I am posing here in front of my father’s car at the age of three.

      On some occasions, he left us at Sortavala, where we went aboard S/ S Venus to get to Kesvalahti. I would have liked to fish with a rod. A branch or something was put in my hand, and after a while, they asked me with a sly grin if I had had any fish. I said I would have if I had the right gadgets. I really liked to tell stories to my country cousins. I guess I lied a little when I praised how great the life in the town was. I told them about the port, the boats and the neon lights that were shining on the roofs of high buildings when it was dark. I felt I was a city boy from Vyborg. I did not like it in the country, the town seemed more interesting to me.

      Steamboat Venus.

      Hilda and Pekka Aalto 1923

      My father Pekka Aalto was born at Kurkijoki in 1894. He had passed off the events of 1918 by defecting to Russia for four years. He would have been forced to join the red ones, but he did not want to wage a war on either side. Before the civil war broke out, he had reserved a one-way ticket to America, but he did not manage to set out before the unrest began. Dad went all the way to Siberia, making a living by means of peddling. He had already trained himself as a tailor in Finland when he was a young man. Pekka had a good sense of humour and knew how to get along. He was never without money, no matter what the times were like. Everyone liked him. As a young man, he had played the accordion with two rows. I remember him having hummed J. Alfred Tanner’s songs with a twinkle in his eye.

      My mother was born at Lumivaara in 1901. She was the youngest in a flock of 12 girls in the family of Anna and Matti Kaartinen. They also had three sons.

      From left: Pekka, Gunnar, Sulo and Hilda with Eeli

      Anna Vilhelmiina Kaartinen.

      My mother's mother Anna Vilhelmiina Kaartinen (née Ristolainen, born at Valkeala in 1866 and died at Kesvalahti in 1918) was a member of a religious sect known by the name of Uukuniemi Pietists and belonged to the close circle of Helena Konttinen, a renowned preacher. It is actually mentioned in the historical records of the parish of Lumivaara that my grandmother exuded deep tranquillity and balance. My mother had inherited similar qualities. But the war and the escape from Karelia had been difficult things to endure even for her. She grew to adulthood in this house called Särkkä. She only attended a circulating school. They were a couple of opposites, my father and

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