Jacob Basov. Color "in all registers"

[Art Bulvar]

Next year marks 100 years since the birth of the painter Jacob krymchanina Basov . To this date, more than 25 exhibitions timed in public and private museums in Ukraine , a thematic art- conference edition of the album , monographs, catalogs, postcards with the works of masters , and numerous articles in the press and the creation of the film " Jacob Basov - the man and the artist ."

Yakov Basov - krymchanin native artist , who is lovingly and respectfully referred to as the patriarch of the Crimean painting. In his legacy - many superb scenery , including offshore , but no less interesting he created portraits, genre paintings . In search of new experiences Basov traveled almost the whole of Ukraine , visited the northern and central Russia , the Baltics, Karelia, Siberia. But by number of paved trails first place , of course, occupy Sevastopol, Bakhchisarai Alupka, Yalta, Gurzuf foothills becomes item of permanent work. For 50 years (since 1946 ) Yakov lived permanently in Alupka . Here he built a workshop, where it was created most of his paintings.

Early works Basov written mainly oil, but over time it is increasingly turning to watercolors. According to Jacob Alexandrovich , watercolor allows you to quickly and fully implement internal artistic possibilities and transmit the fleeting impressions of nature.

Watercolor sheets which were created alla prima - all at once , without preparation , demanded that the artist of the highest craftsmanship, precision movements , error-free selection of colors, following the composite structure , which usually develops in the course of work. In all this great role intuition guide the master's hand , bringing in work share improvisation. Thanks to her works produced unusually alive, holistic, acute exposure to the viewer's imagination . And the main thing that distinguishes watercolors Jacob Basov - the embodiment of the living spirit of nature. She - in an infinite series and unique sunsets and sunrises , spring, summer , autumn and winter days in the trees appear in emerald shiny summer foliage in gold and crimson autumn dress, with bare branches in winter povitelyu ; during rough sea disaster in autumn vineyards , blazing amber , garnet , crimson paint , often have been brought to their sound into a frenzy ... Happiness viewer - in contemplation of the changing nature of the faces of countless opportunities to admire her beauty and partake of the divine beauty as the basis of the picturesque and any other art .

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In the picturesque plan should emphasize luminosity , dynamic and colorful and the overall composite structure failure Basovskii paintings, poetry and even their musicality . Their pronounced decorative is the epitome of the indomitable impulse to light, the sun , the entire life-affirming , embodies the joy of communion with nature.

But, of course , light and color are transmitted and other shades of emotional states - for example , it is difficult to convey with words mood of expectation first news in the spring and the apotheosis of flowering. This motif is like a fragrant vision appears in many watercolors Basov , hitting his sincerity , extraordinary enlightenment coming from the depths of his charmed and loving heart.

Color structure of paintings - the alpha and omega of his paintings , which contains all the " tone of feelings" : joy and sorrow , anxiety, expectation , hope, unrestrained glee ... It is a constant focus of attention of the artist , the year -on-year improved and modified.

In his book "Creativity - is destiny " (1998) Yakov wrote in this regard : " Day and night I think about color. Writing your feelings of living feeling life - spill into the living flesh of painting ... Take all the registers in the dense general tone . More hot tones. The color itself is permeated by the sun, and not the image surface ... My childhood and youth representation about the sun warm the earth forced to write a light yellow -orange and blue earth from sky blue shade ... During the war, all was gray ... Twelve years have passed ... I went to color. Color, it seems to me , the true . Not the local how addicted artists, local - mechanical, without life , without air. I see the color in his living structure , warm, only a mere . It is not made ​​up, he - the very nature of ... High pitched , open - a bit empty , they " laid " and beyond them nothing. Use of open color , bright to the limit - it's all vykrichat no residue, do not leave feeling perception for guessing , dochuvstvovaniya little " in itself." Color invites participate , it has a lack of understanding ... The color should be " baritone " , internally layered. Harmony versus not wide, and in the internal registers . "

Indispensable " character " of the majority of works are Jacob Basov trees . In understanding this artist animate beings , capable to express all the complex gamut of human emotions . Written with the utmost love and virtuosity plastically harmoniously and thoughtfully , they can tell the audience about the subtlest movements of the soul, create the overall mood of the work or need to arrange emotional accents.

Optimist and swinger , sociable and affable man , Yakov and his painting waged a long intimate conversation with the audience - a kind of dialogue in which you can find questions and hints on the expected answers. To intensify the viewer's attention quite substantially affects also known incompleteness, or rather " innuendo " his paintings, which encourages us to engage in an act of co-creation , get into work, to invent what the author omitted . Love the artist to the outside world is inseparable from his phenomenal sensitivity to everything happening in nature, to the music of its phenomena , to subtle nuances of its states , movements and changes . With rich reserves of impressions, Basov created their own images of nature that we, the viewers , accept without a shadow of doubt .

His art is a lot of intuition , which determines the overall lyrical paintings and poetic structure enveloping them almost mysteriously alluring flair ... Looking for work Basov , we feel their " inexhaustible " incredible vitality and liveliness . Before us is not just a masterful depiction of nature , but the expression on her breath, her inner self and nature , its ineffable beauty and charm . It is in this action affects intuitive , psychological and moral factors of creativity and , of course , the personality of Basov - man of varied interests , has extensive expertise in the fields of literature , music, architecture , philosophy, a sensitive and who loved the world around him .