Dmitry Rodzin
Russia
Dmitry Rodzin was born in 1969 in the Southern city of Krasnodar, Russia. When the would-be artist was five, his family moved to Sakhalin island. Dmitry began his artistic training earlier on when he was in Uglegorsk City of Sakhalin, he enrolled to the art school which was headed by his father Mr. Gennady Rodzin.
狄米崔‧洛金出生於1969年遠在俄羅斯南部的克拉斯諾達爾市，五歲時全家遷徙至俄羅斯遙遠東邊的薩哈林島。狄米崔‧洛金的藝術啟蒙甚早，年幼時即入學位於薩哈林的烏格列果爾斯克市的藝術學校就讀，而當時他父親也是該校當時的校長。
After five years in Sakhalin their family moved back to Krasnodar. There Dmitry continued his education at an art school and then in the year of 1984 he entered design department of Krasnodar college of arts.
在薩哈林島居住了五年後，洛金一家人又再度遷徙回克拉斯諾達爾市定居。狄米崔‧洛金繼續就讀在克拉斯諾達爾市當地的藝術學校，並於1984年順利進入該藝術學院的設計學系研習。
He still remembers well for his college teachers and believes that there under the guidance of Professor V.M. Savranskiy with whom he had achieved basis skills which later helped him to accomplish as an artist. The main focus in the college curriculum was devoted to the technique of watercolour painting. And as early as back in those years Dmitry had already created several good level and beautiful watercolour works.
狄米崔‧洛金至今仍十分感念藝術學院老師們的諄諄教誨，他認為老師們已先為他奠定了良好的基礎。學院課程原本就對學生們的水彩創作技巧非常地重視，而狄米崔‧洛金也因此在就學期間已經完成數幅高水準且深受青睞的水彩作品。
While working half way with his graduation project, Dmitry visited Moscow, and created multiple studies and sketches of the city corners where’s the actual taking place of “The Master and Margarita” till then unfolded. The illustrations were rendered by the artist using copper-plate engraving technique with the bricks understanding the meaning of this novel and magnificent miniature quality of etchings as Rembrandt style.
當初狄米崔‧洛金於準備畢業作的當下，還親自特別去了趟莫斯科，拜訪小說中「大師與瑪格麗特」的故事場景，並且就地作了許多研究和寫生。這些插畫皆以蝕刻版畫之技法完成，精細度頗高，扣人心弦，充分地顯現出藝術家對故事內容的深度解析與寓意。
The complicated structure of the novel needed the requirement of a unique representational approach. The artist had to decide on something substantial that would become the main topic for his illustrations. Though among Dmitry’s works there were generalized images of Voland, the Master and his beloved Margarita, he put the spotlight on the pages describing Jerusalem.
故事內容高潮迭起，加上深度複雜的結構，讓狄米崔‧洛金在構圖上必須更加花費心思，也因此他特別挑出一個重點來作為插畫的主題。雖然在插畫之中不時可見到撒旦，大師及馬格麗特的化身形象，主軸卻是放在耶路撒冷的另外一條故事線上。
In 1991, Dmitry was admitted to the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow. The choice of the educational institution was crucial since the Academy was teaching the heritage of the classic school of Russian and European painting. Every year students visited Saint-Petersburg for their on-site practical training, where they familiarized themselves with the works of fine arts masters in one of the world's best museums — the State Hermitage. During that period, Dmitry Rodzin was enthusiastically redrawing artworks by Peter Paul Rubens while studying the artistic method of the legendary Flemish painter.
1991年，狄米崔‧洛金進入位於莫斯科的俄羅斯繪畫雕塑暨建築學院就讀。這樣的學術選擇至關重要，因為該學院傳授的即是俄羅斯及歐洲古典傳統繪畫。學生經歷過千錘百鍊與慢工出細活的琢磨之下，加上苦練實練之後才得以漸入門檻，進而將其工法加以發揚光大於世。每一年學生們也會造訪位於聖彼得堡的「冬宮美術館」，也是世界最重要美術館之一，研習及臨摹模擬美術大師們的傑作。在就學期間，狄米崔‧洛金懷著狂熱的心去臨摹傳奇畫家魯本斯的作品，並且深入鑽研該大師的技巧與工法。
Since their freshmen year Academy students were working on multifigured compositions. And during their junior year the artists-in-training were encharged with a task to cover the evangelical theme of "The Annunciation" — the Appearance of the Angel to Virgin Mary. Dmitry delivered two compositions on the topic. The first that is currently at the Academy’s museum was a conventional representation — the artist depicted Mary and the Angel in accordance with the European Christian iconography. In the second version the Angel is presented as a gush of light.
Later on, Academy students were divided into three workshops — landscape, portrait and history painting. Rodzin chose the most challenging path — history workshop — and during his senior year was working on the studies for his graduation painting also on evangelical theme — "Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple". The narrative of the cleansing of the Temple tells of Jesus.
俄羅斯繪畫雕塑暨建築學院的學生自第一個學年開始，就必須鑽研多人物圖畫。狄米崔‧洛金於三年級時與一位同學一起被選中負責創作聖經中「天使向聖母報喜」的畫作。他為此製作了兩幅畫，其中一幅天使並無具體形象，而是以光束的形式呈現。另一幅畫風較為傳統，天使及聖母的形象皆符合歐洲聖像畫風典範，至今仍收藏於該學院的美術館內，作為學校特優作品並被列為館藏之一。