Pavel
Ivanovich Basmanov

Born in the village Batalova Altai province in 1906 and Died in St. Petersburg in 1993 and Schedule. Studied at Altai art workshops (1920 - 1922), lived and worked in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). In the picturesque realism Basmanova organically coexisted and traditions of Orthodox icons, and the echoes of contemporary poststreptococcal quest. Timeless world of "bygone" Russia's "visions" of the Altai children allegedly by the artist as the image of the Past and a glimpse of the Future as a perfect model of the world. "Horizontal gave me the steppe, the vertical figure in the desert, on the diagonal, the slopes of the hills," said the artist about his works in which the perfect and constructed according to the eternal laws of nature the world of the artist contrasted with the chaos of reality: the collectivization, famine, repression of the 1930-ies.

(1906, village Batalova Altai province – 1993, St.-Petersburg)

Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist.

Studied at Altai art workshops (1920 – 1922), lived and worked in Leningrad (St. Petersburg).

In the picturesque realism Basmanova organically coexisted and traditions of Orthodox icons,

and echoes contemporary poststreptococcal quest. Timeless world of "bygone" Russia's "visions" of the Altai children allegedly by the artist as the image of the Past

and the prototype of the Future, as the ideal model of the world. "Horizontal gave me the steppe, the vertical figure in the desert, on the diagonal, the slopes of the hills," said the artist about his works

in which perfect and constructed according to the eternal laws of nature the world of the artist contrasted with the chaos of reality.

Bibliography:

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2. Rautenberg O. Does anyone remember that we were... From the history of artistic life. 1925 – 1935. Moscow. 2004

3. Borovsky, A. D. and others Unknown pre-war Leningrad: painting and drawing. Catalogue of the exhibition. Moscow. 2004

4. Efremova E. V., Belokhvostova N.. (comp.) Graphics of the twentieth century. New arrivals. Catalogue of the exhibition. TG. Moscow. Air-Art. 2003

5. Petrov V. (author VST. article). Fifty years of Leningrad book graphic. Catalogue of the exhibition. Leningrad. Artist of the RSFSR. 1969

6. Popova N. And. Kozyrev N. M. (authors and compilers). Drawings of Soviet artists. Catalogue of the exhibition. Leningrad. Timing. 1976

7. Kozyrev N. (by the TSA. article). Drawing and watercolours in Russia. Of the twentieth century. Timing. Saint-Petersburg. 2008

8. Soloviev V. D. (the author). Russian artists XVIII – XX centuries. Reference. Dnepropetrovsk. Thresholds. 1996