In the lesson we talked about one of the greatest Belarusian artists Mark Shagal and his unique paintings. Surf the internet and find information about another Belarusian artist. Write about 8-10 sentences. Include interesting facts from their biography, describe their style. Express your opinion on this artist's works of art. What does the artist want to say?
Of course, Marc Chagall was the most famous Belarusian artist of the 20th century. But it was a long time ago. Have you ever thought about what is art today? I would like to tell you about belarusian painter Mikhail Andreyevich Savitsky. Youth of the outstanding artist was dark and heavy. In his 20s he has already participated in the battles for Sevastopol. During his life he was in such terrible places like Dusseldorf, Buchenwald and Dachau.
ReplyDeleteAs for creativity, Savitsky, based on his own experience, wanted to show the history of Belarus, especially in wartime. His works were written in the publicistic and emotionally expressive style. One of his most famous works is the painting "Partisan Madonna". Paintings "Summer Theatre", "Dance with torches" show the horror that was in the death camps during the war.
Mikhail Savitsky died on November 8, 2010, in Minsk, Belarus.
Thank you, Artyom, for writing about Mikhail Savitsky. While reading your comment I had goosebumps on my skin. I remember his powerful paintings which I saw in my childhood and I feel some gripping pain in my heart. Everybody must see his paintings. Perhaps, the horror shown in them will prevent people from doing such terrible things in the future.
DeleteOh, thanks, Artik. I heard some information about Savitski, but i did not know him at all. I think that our blog is a great thing. We can learn new information about our country and famous people)
DeleteOh, I know this Belarusian painter. But I don't know that he has participated in the battles for Sevastopol. It was interesting for me, thanks.
DeleteMeer Moiseevich Akselrod, also Meyer Axelrod (1902–1970). He was a Belarusian painter best known for his watercolor paintings of Jewish life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.Akselrod was born in Maladzyechna, a small Jewish town in Belarus. As a child, he survived a pogrom and moved to Russia during World War I. In the 1920s, he studied and then taught at the VKhUTEMAS School of Art. His work was barely known outside the former Soviet Union until his daughter, Elena Akselrod, published her father's biography and a representative collection of his works in Israel in 1993.
ReplyDeleteOh,I like watercolor paintings. It seems that they have a mystery.Thanks,Valik,for publishing an interesting information.
DeleteChaim Soutine.Soutine was born Chaim Sutin, in Smilavichy near Minsk. He was the tenth of eleven children. From 1910 to 1913 he studied in Vilnius at the Vilna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1913, with his friends he emigrated to Paris.For a time, he and his friends lived at La Ruche.After the war Paul Guillaume, a highly influential art dealer, began to champion Soutine's work. In 1923, in a showing arranged by Guillaume, the prominent American collector Albert C. Barnes , bought 60 of Soutine's paintings on the spot. Soutine, who had been virtually penniless in Paris, immediately took the money, ran into the street, hailed a Paris taxi, and ordered the driver to take him to Nice, on the French Riviera, more than 400 miles away.Soutine once horrified his neighbours by keeping an animal carcass in his studio so that he could paint it (Carcass of Beef).There's a story that Marc Chagall saw the blood from the carcass leak out onto the corridor outside Soutine's room, and rushed out screaming, 'Someone has killed Soutine. Soutine painted 10 works in this series, which have since become his most well-known. Suffering from a stomach ulcer and bleeding badly, he left Paris to perform operation, which failed to save his life. In February 2007, a 1921 portrait of an unidentified man with a red scarf by Chaim Soutine sold for $17.2 million.In May 2015, an oil painting, achieved a record price for the artist of $28,165,000 at the Christie's curated auction.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of this artist but when I surfed the Internet and saw his paintings I recognized some of them. Thank you guys for educating me as well.
DeleteValentin Gubarev. He was born on April 14, 1948 (now he is 68) in Russia but moved to Belarus and lives and works here. He says that this land attracts him. His works often appear at exhibitions in different countries: Japan, China, Russia, the Republic of Belarus, the USA, England, etc. I can say that his paintings are simple and have a deep sense. For example, in one of his paintings he shows us a man with a huge back of money, but he is sitting in a gray, dark, poor room with no wallpaper, furniture and chandeliers. This painting shows us how greed kills people. (http://tormashki.net/uploads/posts/2013-09/1379612413_1400155-.jpg). The masterpieces of artist often cause a smile because some of them are really funny and for me there are a bit strange and silly (because I’m a little pretty girl ).
ReplyDeleteThe greed*
DeleteThe painting you mentioned reminded me of Mr Ebenizer Scrooge from the famous Christmas carol by Charles Dickens.
DeleteApollinary Goravsky
ReplyDeleteApalinar (Apollinary) was born into an impoverished family of the Belarusian landed gentry. His parents were Guilyar Frantsevich and Maryanna Yakauleuna Garausky. Apollinary, at ten, was sent to serve in the Brest-Litovsk Cadet Corps. Cadets studied general subjects of the classical school curriculum, such as languages, natural and social sciences. They were taught military disciplines, marching drill, riding, shooting, fencing, gymnastics, swimming, and also music and dance, drawing and painting. Apollinary had no inclination for military affairs, but liked drawing and painting. The architect Nicholas Benois, who was visiting Goravsky's uncle took notice of Apollinary's works and later helped him enroll at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied with Maxim Vorobiev and Fyodor Bruni. He graduated in 1854 with a gold medal. From 1855 to 1860 he travelled and painted throughout Europe, visiting Geneva, Paris and Rome and stopping in Düsseldorf to study with Andreas Achenbach. During this trip, he met Pavel Tretyakov and began a collaboration that would later be very beneficial to his career. On his return to Saint Petersburg, he was awarded the title of "Academician". In 1869, the Academy gave him a stipend of 300 rubles annually to "complete his education" and produce paintings of folk-life in Belarus and Ukraine, a commission which he pursued diligently, despite the cold weather and rheumatism in his right leg. For twenty years he occasionally taught drawing at the "Society for the Encouragement of the Arts", although he spent most of his time in Belarus at his estate near Kirilovich.Apollinary Goravsky died suddenly on March 28, 1900 at the Mariinsky Hospital in St. Petersburg at the age of 67.
Another new name for me. As far as I understood his most famous painting is "An evening in Minsk gubernia".
ReplyDeleteLeonid Afremov
ReplyDeleteNative of city Vitebsk, Republic of Belarus. Creator of unique style of writing of pictures, due to what creations of Leonid Afremov it is impossible with anybody to entangle.
His pictures are always emotional, they cause positive and glad emotions only, in spite of the fact that an artist represents an autumn. Afremov draws not brushes. He uses palette-knife by means of that masterly lays on necessary strokes oily paints.
Many compare by Afremov to great masters of the past. But an artist insists on that he found the own style. His works can be considered as a modern art that is base on traditions of the past.Leonid Afremov prefers to lay out the works in social networks, but not to do the personal exhibitions in galleries. His artistic philosophy is base on idea that an art must not be accessible only to the elite.