Henn Roode

Experimenting courage, which is characteristic to the creation of Henn Roode, seems actually unexpected while looking back at the artist’s biography. Like Valdur Ohakas, also Roode was able to study in the former “Pallas” only for a few years before he was arrested and sent to a prison camp. Still, Roode entered after re-gaining his freedom in a forceful manner the local cultural life. Even though active creative period remained unjustly short, we detect in Roode’s creation a remarkable amount of experimenting and implementing of new possibilities.
“Maastik” reflects a typical Henn Roode - style of approach: even though as basis is taken the traditional landscape painting genre, the landscape is for Roode not as much a target as a pretext. By creating intensive colour combinations, Roode has not been bothered by exact interpretation of the nature. His experiments at deforming and twisting of the room bring about the formation of a strange, even metaphysical landscape, where all roads never stop branching off.