Shagin, Boris Pavlovich

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Shagin, Boris Pavlovich

He studied at the picturesque Department of Saratov Art College (1946-1951) from IN Shcheglov, BV Milovidova, NA Archangel, IV Sevastianova, AI Borodin, VF Gurov, VK Danilova. Member of youth, regional, zonal, national and international exhibitions. Member of the Artists Union of Russia (since 1964). His works are represented in the Saratov State Art Museum named after AN Radishcheva museums in Saratov region, galleries and private collections in Russia (Saratov, Moscow), Czech Republic, Germany, Canada.

Almost half a century in the way art Shagin, Boris (1929-2004) was quite complicated. In 1960-1980-ies he gave a clear preference for "thematic pattern. These were based on his paintings emphasize the expressive-stage frame, rather than the plot narrative. Their featured conciseness solutions, generalizing typing deliberately coarsened characters emphasized restraint coloring. It was the local version of the popular at that time "severe style". These "bridge-builder" from the collection Radischevskaya museum. Working on this monumental canvas, Shagin, as always, did a lot of tipazhnyh sketches and landscape sketches, studying the appearance of bridge-building and character of the Volga landscape. And I must say that many of them tightly wrapped up and color peculiarly beautiful.
But then the same artist created a lot of field studies, it is value in themselves, written from the soul, for my own pleasure. And among them were excellent and the strong sense and skill - elegant still lifes, and portraits are not registered, because he wrote to friends and relatives. These works were not for him any significant source of income. He piled them on the mezzanine, gave away or hung on the walls of the studio. Thematic paintings were purchased by the State under contracts with the exhibitions, the artist gave social prestige. Etudes is written because Shagin could not write them. They are valuable in its sincerity, looseness manners, ecstasy creativity. That such work enabled him to stand up and really find himself in the years when state patronage of art, as well as ideological pressure on the artist, stopped. Left alone with the cruel realities of the only still emerging art market, Shahin was able to prove its relevance talented painter, a master of the traditional lyrical landscape.
Some of his landscape and landscape, genre paintings, preserving etyudnuyu direct vision, the degree of imaginative generalization rise to the sound characteristic. These are the "Barge", written with a flourish and pasty, with a powerful modeling forms, restrained color scheme. This pattern is reminiscent of the manner of writing and coloring northern landscapes AE Arkhipova and the work of other great painters of the Moscow plenerizma beginning of XX century, speaks of the artist's temperament Saratov and his extraordinary skill.
The last decade has opened Shagina as a born landscape painter, for which no plot or motive, and the painting as such is of primary importance. Features of his talent and artistic education predetermined color quality of the best of his paintings. He is well "set of eyes" has already instituted a teacher (especially I. Shcheglov), and his mentors on academic problem (Gavrilov) and senior comrades (V. Fomichev) strengthened its invariable attraction to color accuracy, and developed a much valued in Saratov color-response culture.
It is natural and equally fit into a galaxy of masters of traditional picturesque landscape of the older generation, such as Basil Fomichev, Alexei Panov, Alexander Grodskov Leonid Fedotov, depicting in his numerous paintings features Saratov nature, such variability in different seasons, different time of day, yet this in its own unique, if you look into it carefully and lovingly.
Shaginskie landscapes bribe life concreteness. In their construction, as in the choice of motive, no intent. The basic emotional tone is usually prompted by the artist himself building a motive, but he tends not to illusions, but to the imaginative painterly precision response. His concern is not only found a color solutions, but also the ability to feel and to convey the peculiar rhythm, which is imbued with a specific full-scale motif, its picturesque melody. From this wholeness of the entire painting surface in his works, their color balance.
Shagin, Boris - one of the few artists of the older generation, who continued to work actively until his death. His painting, maintaining sturdy traditionalism style, did not stop its development and continues to please audiences of live impulsive response to what you have seen, energetic manner of writing, full-fledged color imagery in the early paintings. He remained quite still vigilance vision, courage, motivation and emotional perception of the picturesque looseness of its reconstruction.
Creativity Boris Pavlovich Shagin, especially his landscapes and still lifes, have long found their way into the hearts of people - and their nenazoylivoy attractiveness, and quality of painting itself, and its sensuous immediacy, which is so lacking in our excessively rationalized time.


© Efim Isaakovich water-carrier, text, 2009
© Saratov State Art
Museum named after AN Radishcheva, paintings, 2009