Sergei Bakaeva road.

[Art Bulvar]

Although many of Bakaeva fit in Yalta artistic tradition and impressionistic choice motives in general, his painting is a little special thanks sounding philosophical landscape , monumental composition and color shrillness . This view wanderer , a man who has seen a lot of , a war veteran who knows how to appreciate every moment of life bestowed by God .

    Bakaev Sergey was born in April 1922 on the road - on the train next to Irkutsk. And it seemed predetermined his fate : many roads had to pass the artist - the way of the Great Patriotic infantryman , guerrilla trails Belarus, then - trips to the Crimea , a trip to Moscow , Leningrad and Kiev , traveling through Europe. And everywhere he never parted with a sketchbook , without departing from the rules : " a day without a line ." Painted tank childhood , but perhaps the fact that the war he saved the life of an artist, influenced the choice of profession. In 1947 he enrolled in art school Simferopol . Among fellow students Sergei was a talented artist Olga Dudina with which they soon married . However, the happiness was short-lived first marriage - Olga " burned " from the disease ... and war-scarred grief artist nursed second wife, Alla V. , who became the muse , the first spectator and critic of his works.

    Sergei studied Bakaev Valentin Bernadskii, which idolized all my life . From him - a variety of compositional techniques , colored shadows and reflections , allowing transmit live impression of nature. But if Bernadskii more dramatic in the coloring , the Bakaev rather romantic. In Yalta, one of the closest friends of the artist became Stepan Spring . How easy would be influenced Bernadskaya B. , S. Jarovogo , GF Zakharov ! But Sergei Ivanovich retain its own identity . In this early period, he thinks like a muralist , and this magnitude is felt even in the works nebolshogoformata . Then love is manifested in the landscape , which has become a major genre in his work.

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In Bakaeva blood of highlanders. Maybe because its mountain scenery stand out among the works of other artists Crimeans . They especially felt his admiration Vrubel : the same faceted shape modeling , color depth , the same love of purple and blue. In the painting " Autumn in Crimea" (1978) horizontal blue- purple mountains is the majestic backdrop for poplars verticals - such dense that they appear blue-black . Sunlit bush and pink hats sumac cast many reflections on the gray stones and clear autumn light softens the contrast of warm and cool colors .

    In " Noon" ( 1981), the artist managed to convey a surprising state , when the silence and stillness of the sultry air as if time stopped : it is unclear to what age we are - it can be a XIX century and the 1960s , and the present.

    In gouache "Etude" (1986) favorite burgundy, blue and purple make the room to make room for the dense greenery and variety of yellow - and warm , and cold . Interesting coloristic composition Etudes, dividing it into two zones: the bottom - the heat, the top - cool . Unusually poetic work , and looking at it, is not surprised that Sergei Bakaev wrote poetry .

    Artist , carrying , like many of his colleagues , government orders , and manages to stay in them yourself, do not lose in the genre and "model" socialist realist portraits sense of joy peace, happiness, communication with people. In the sketch to a monumental work "Girls" NAPO all sunshine and light, the person depicted brightly individual and expressive. In this - the development of traditions of Russian realism abroad nineteenth and twentieth centuries . Enriched conquests plein air painting . According continuer artistic dynasty Bakaeva Svetlana , her father was a " man of fire " - each idea illuminate lived . Because in his work is almost no " walk-through " work , all written with love and all recognizable.

    In 1970-1980 -ies. Bakaeva skill reaches its peak. Whatever he wrote - or krymskiegory Belarusian village , sea or river , lilacs or roses - flawless in composition, interesting in color , colored by his relationship to the world . Among the best is certainly true " Winter Evening " (1974) - exquisite decorative thing that conveys the beauty of scarlet sunset and snow-covered huts, transparency icy branches.

    In the 1990s . Bakaev already can afford to write only what he loves most - the mountains, the streets of the southern towns , flowers and fruits . In " Still life with roses and grapes " (1993 ), he admires the flowers and fruits , leisurely " vyleplivaya " their shape color. Augmented by the intense blue as deep green , purple melts , turning pink.

    In recent years, the artist was seriously ill and almost could not work , his work seemed to get away out of sight of the art connoisseurs . In 2010 SI Bakaeva was gone ...

    Master's name resurfaced after the gallery " Art Boulevard " published catalog of his works, the exhibition held in Kiev, Sevastopol, Simferopol . Paintings Bakaeva attracted an amazing combination of typical luminosity Crimean color depth , balanced composition , philosophic content. This work thinker talking to us about the eternal language of painting .