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Art Activity V.X. Sause begins immediately after the exercise: to the 90 years he worked exclusively as a watercolorist at the exhibition watercolors. In the future, the artist leaves watercolors, but at the forefront of his activities as an engraver. Etching V.X. Sause started in Odessa in 1890-1891 gg. under the influence of the artist Vyacheslav Koreneva, who taught him the first general information on the technique of etching. With all their further development, however, V.X. Sause obliged himself, tirelessly working on the study of the works and the creative methods and techniques of the best engravers. Crucial for him was meeting with two prominent Russian engravers-realists: landscapes II Shishkin and engraver VV Mate, the first he met in the 1895-1896 city, with the second-in 1911-1912, and both masters helped V.X. Sause his advice, presented him with new techniques and manners of etching, contributed to its wider and deeper understanding of the challenges facing the engraver. Without limiting the studied experience of the Russian engravers V.X. Sause many studies of the best masters of the West. With special attention, he analyzes the work of old masters: Rembrandt, Goya and modern masters of etching: Rops, Whistler, Brengvina, Zorn and others. Developing the experience of Dru ¬ gih artists and all the latest achievement in the field of engraving B. X. Sause worked hard to deepen this experience by going through this individual and many people find themselves.
B. X. Sause began with a simple bar-etching, to achieve greater diversity and gradations of tones to light, he used the re-etching etching needle or the work of different thickness. These landscape etchings "The road in the woods" in 1902 and "Noon" in 1901, however, soon the wizard does not satisfy the constraints of a simple etching, he seeks to introduce the richness of a variety of etching a manner that consistently and successfully masters. Gradually he introduced "manners": aquatint, metstsotinto and soft ground. V.X. Sause not only applies to each of these manners alone, but combines them in a single etching, giving them a variety of combinations ( "Volta Fountain" in 1910 - etching and aquatint. "Chickens", 1918 - aquatint and drypoint, "Oak" 1927 - soft ground, drypoint and aquatint). The most difficult technique of etching is Chumak, which applied: etching, soft ground, aquatint and metstsotinto.
Enrichment facilities in B. X. Sause is inextricably linked to the deepening of the ideological and imaginative solutions to their works. Its basic plot motifs remain the landscape and the image of animals: but the approach to addressing these themes the artist is doing false and profound evolution.
The first of his landscapes still completely filled with features of early watercolors, academic, not deprived of naturalism, monotonous in form and composition. A careful study of the greatest works of Russian landscapes I. Levitan, and the best masters of Western realist landscape: the French "barbizontsev and impressionist painter opens eyes to nature, the value of heartfelt lyrical perception of nature. He begins to understand that to achieve characteristic shape, enrich the landscape lives in motion. Thus, his landscape etchings are becoming more picturesque, the space in these deeper, more varied and original composition becomes more complex and richer than the play of light and shadow, beautiful to the finer nuances and color spots, and their contrasts and halftones. Etching leaves, impress even the same color, thereby causing impres ¬ intense experience rich iridescence. In the depiction of animals artist seeks characteristic forms, postures and movements. The simplest means are used to materiality in the transfer of wool, feathers and envelops them air and light ( "Kolkhoznaya cote" - soft ground, "Chickens", aquatint, "Geese"-color linocut and others).