俄罗斯民族风景画的主要特点是通过内心感受来表现其低调、平和、明快而具有穿透力的特性。

出生在俄罗斯城市下诺夫哥罗德的波洛特诺夫对与大自然接触所产生的内在和谐深信不疑，他的作品也的确是从大自然中获取独有的形象，而并非引自他人之处。这些作品构型严谨却又不失韵味，摒弃鲜明的戏剧性和艳丽的色彩，却力图表现忧郁与凄凉的感觉。那是一种微弱却又清晰可辨的声音，他所追求的是很少有人开启的“白光”的变幻多姿，他想描绘闪耀的珍珠色，还有白银……

波洛特诺夫用画笔重塑了俄罗斯中部自然风景的柔和之美。地平线消失在明亮的天际，远处的村庄融为一体，但这始终是色彩（和画意）强调的焦点，无论是云端的一线光亮，还是寺庙圆顶的一瞥，抑或是一个和尚或是农民的剪影。纵使没有所谓的“现代艺术”中常见的绚丽色彩和冗繁的装饰，波洛特诺夫的作品却仍能光彩夺目，若明珠般璀璨，优美如诗。

The major feature of the national landscape of Russia was to show its low-profile, peaceful, bright and penetrating characters through the painter’s inner feelings.

Valery Pavlovich Polotnov who was born in Zavolzhye believes firmly the inner harmony generated from the contact with the nature, and his artworks which are rigorous in composition yet with lingering charm show unique images from the nature rather than quotations from others. Through abandoning the sharp contrast of colors and distinct dramaticism, and coordinating the basic color tones, the artist is pursuing the atmosphere of melancholy and desolation, which is a faint yet audible voice. He chases the colorful beauties in white light seldom noticed by others, and he’s going after the sparkling pearl gray as well as silver white…

Using his brush, Polotnov remold the gentle and mild beauty of the natural sceneries in middle Russia. The horizon disappears in the brightness, and the villages far away are in complete harmony, while all these are focus of the colors (and artistic inspiration), no matter it’s a glimmer high in the clouds, or a glimpse at the dome of a temple, or even the silhouette of a Buddhist monk or a peasant. Without the gorgeous colors common in the so-called modern art and miscellaneous decorations, Polotnov’s artworks are still shining like bright pearls, graceful and elegant like poems.