Self-taught artist paints realistic landscapes of Russian nature, which resemble the paintings of the great Shishkin

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The destinies of artists at all times for the most part have always been filled with difficulties and suffering, disagreement and rejection. But only true creators were able to overcome all the vicissitudes of life and achieve success. So for many years, through thorns, our contemporary had to go to world recognition, self-taught artist Sergei Basov.

What could be closer and dearer to a person than the enchanting corners of the nature of his native land. And wherever we are, on a subconscious level, we strive for them with all our soul. Apparently, this is why landscapes in the work of painters are so strongly taken for a living by almost every viewer. And that is why the works of Sergei Basov are so delightful, who passed through an artistic vision, who inspired and saturated with lyrics every square centimeter of his creation.

A little about the artist

Sergey Basov (born in 1964) is from the city of Yoshkar-Ola. As a child, he was a very enthusiastic and inquisitive child who dreamed of becoming a pilot and drew excellently, and not only airplanes. And when he grew up, he made a choice in favor of aviation - he graduated from the Kazan Aviation Institute. But it was not destiny for Sergei to fly - his health was disappointing, and the medical board categorically imposed its veto.

And then Basov had to agree to the position of an aviation engineer. And in his free time, he began to seriously engage in painting. But despite the excellent natural talent, the future artist lacked academic knowledge and professional skills in craftsmanship.

And one day he decided to radically change his fate: Sergey finished his engineering career and submitted documents to the Cheboksary "hudgraf". However, representatives of the selection committee, although they recognized the extraordinary artistic gift of the applicant Basov, did not accept his documents. At the same time, the argument was put forward very weighty for those times:. And the novice artist had no choice but to independently master the basics of painting, and its academic part, and learn the secrets of painting through the works of the great geniuses of the 19th century.

So it happened in life that he remained self-taught, as they said in the old days - a "nugget" with an artistic gift truly from God. And such masters, what a sin to conceal, in Russia in all ages had a difficult time. So fate did not spoil Sergei too much. So, during the 90s, Basov had to cooperate only with the galleries of Kazan, since the Moscow ones in no way wanted to deal with a master who had no education and a famous name.

But, as they say - the water wears away the stone, and little by little the capital also submitted to the talented painter. Since 1998, Sergei's canvases began to appear in international Moscow salons. And orders from foreign lovers and connoisseurs of painting were not long in coming. And then fame came to the artist, and world recognition.

Lyrics and hyperrealism in the work of a self-taught artist

Few are left indifferent by the majestic primordially Russian corners of nature, frozen in time on the artist's canvases. Basov lays the traditional classics of landscape painting of the 19th century at the basis of each work, the foundation. And on his own he adds more sunlight and a harmonious combination of colors in the air, as well as quiet joy arising from contemplation and perception of the extraordinary beauty of the stately Russian nature.

Over the past twenty years, Sergei Basov has been a participant in numerous collective and personal exhibitions. He is a member of the International Art Fund and the Professional Union of Artists. And already no one reproaches the master that he is a self-taught artist and an artist without a glorious name.

Many viewers associate the master's work with the works of the famous landscape painter Ivan Shishkin. Sergei himself, talking about himself, says:

The painter seemed to spiritualize each of his paintings and glorify in it the extraordinary power of the natural elements. Having carefully looked at the image and listening to your feelings, you can even notice how the leaves tremble in the wind, hear the whistle of a cricket and the chirping of a grasshopper, a splash of the river, and smell the thinnest coniferous smell of a pine forest.

His painting can be fully called poetic, where the artist inspired and with great love impregnated every tree, every blade of grass with subtle lyricism, subordinating the whole picture to a harmonious sound.

But what admires most of all is the painter's hyperrealistic manner of painting. The meticulously written details delight even the sophisticated viewer. And the artist in his paintings masterfully reflects all seasons and all times of the day, noting all the nuances associated with changes in natural cyclical time.

The amazing natural world, reflected in landscapes, especially attracted Russian artists in the 19th century. Ivan Welz was one of the most renowned landscape painters. His work was put on a par with the creations of Shishkin, Levitan, Aivazovsky.