Exhibition of works by BORIS BELMASOV in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts

October 7, 2014 at 16 hours in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts at the address: st. Prechistenka, 21 opens an exhibition of works by Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts BORIS BELMASOV.

The exhibition runs until October 19, 2014.

The retrospective exhibition included about 70 paintings of different years.

Boris Petrovich Belmasov was born in 1940 in the Krasnodar Territory. He graduated from the Rostov Art College. M.B. Grekov, in 1970 - Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I.E. Repin, where his teachers were famous Russian painters, academicians B.S. Ugarov and V.M. Oreshnikov, who brought him up on the heritage of Russian classical art. The artist already at the first after studies showed himself as a gifted painter working in various genres: thematic painting, portrait, landscape, still life, decorative composition.

B. Belmasov - participant of numerous exhibitions, incl. personal in Rostov-on-Don, at the Russian Academy of Arts, the Museum of Modern History, the "New Manege" (Moscow) and other halls where works of a wide creative range were presented.

The artist constantly refers to the tragic events of Russian history. The theme of the Great Patriotic War is especially close to him, the son of a front-line soldier. One of the works included in the exposition is called - “In memory of the father who died in 1941”. The large-scale painting “Death by Death Correct” (1980) in the year of the 65th anniversary of the Victory was presented by the author as a gift to the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 ”. For a series of paintings devoted to this topic, he was awarded a diploma and a gold medal named after MB Grekov.

In recent years, B. Belmasov has been actively working in the genre of philosophical paintings with its ambiguity and metaphorical content, filled with allegories and associations (“Save and Save”, “Apple Savior”, “Poetic Liberty”, “Apple of Discord”, triptychs: “Generosity of Life” "And" Lust for life "). Comprehension of the creative experience of past years and openness to new plastic thinking give rise to a special attitude to composition, new author’s technologies, stimulate his pictorial searches, the power of imagination and fantasy. “Writing our time in the imaginative style of the 70s is unacceptable today, the world has changed a lot, and I can go further only by evaluating and rethinking my past,” says the artist.

In the picturesque concept of B. Belmasov, the coloristic solution of the picture is given great importance. The color on his canvases creates a feeling of inner movement, pulsation, the breath of life. The artist’s still lifes are interesting, written in rich colors, with an energetic brushstroke that reveals the shape and texture of objects. In landscape compositions, nature often appears fantastic, flickering with unexpected colors.

The energetic movements of the brush, the elaboration of a palette knife, the combination of pasty painting and glaze for the artist is not an end in itself, but the ability to use the painting techniques to reveal the depth of the picture’s concept, its emotional intensity.

Festive and major color symphonies are perceived by the artist’s works dedicated to Alexander Pushkin: “The Muse of Inspiration” and “Gypsy Chants” (1999-2005).

Each work created by the artist is a kind of confession, a revelation in front of the audience, involves an active dialogue with him.

Works B. Belmasova are in museums in Russia, Germany, Bulgaria, in private collections in France, England, USA, Spain, Poland, Israel and other countries.

Local historian

Bless and save

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Apple saved

Triptych