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from Semirechye the painter worked on. They look like the painter’s mood in the fragments of the city she tells
a storyboard depicting the events that happened in the about and the events that happen there.
natural landscape, painted using the entire variety of Pavel Zaltsman in his study of an interior for the
colours. new building of Kazakhfilm (1978) and Song, Warm
Abylkhan Kasteyev’s pieces with their delicate My Heart… (1969) – a study of a stage set for the film
shades, authentic forms, abundant details and, at the Melodies of Kazakhstan – searched for decorative
same time, the inimitable feeling of air and space are integrity in forms inspired by Kazakh ornaments.
precious items in the museum’s collection. A View Zaltsman’s Fairy Tale (1969) is a genre piece depicting
from a Garden House (1950), Lake Senezh with Iceboats celebrations, filled with joy and movement achieved
(1952), Harvesting (1952), Seaport of Shevchenko largely due to the artist’s unique style of painting.
(1965), and On the Shore of Lake Issyk-Kol (1967) are Today, the beauty of the land and ethnic
the works that reflect in full the artist’s unique ability traditions have become typical motifs in the art of
to create an integral and harmonious picture of the Kazakhstan. The artists of the 1950s who praised their
world through the poetic perception of everyday people and their way of life became the discoverers of
routines. They not only represent the creative process Kazakhstan’s culture and beauty. Young people who
but help to understand how scrupulous the master studied at the Soviet Union’s best universities continued
was about his approach to painting. The preparatory to work in Kazakhstan, including in watercolour.
drawings for his oil paintings are widely perceived The exhibition also presents watercolours by
today as real masterpieces. The delicate watercolour Yevgeny Sidorkin who came to Kazakhstan after
landscapes of 1950-1960s that could not be drawn to graduation from the Repin Leningrad Institute of
an official order reveal the painter’s true freedom Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Aldar Kose’s
that helped him to easily convey the subtlest hues Wonderful Fur Coat and Forty Tales from the Merry
and devise unconventional light and shade solutions. Cheaters series were inspired by Kazakh fairy tales.
Abylkhan Kasteyev composed his watercolours These monochrome compositions are filled with
from a “bird view,” typical of Japanese and Chinese kindness and humour emanating from the characters.
art, and saturated the simple scenes of life with the The soft interpretation of the images that adds
philosophical understanding of the world. He used tangibility to the details of clothes, the liveliness of
these seemingly ordinary feelings and stories to make faces, and the composition confined by the boundaries
astonishing revelations about the beauty of the being. of the paper seem to involve the viewer in the events.
The other works from the 1930s are Alexey Aisha Galimbayeva, a graduate of the Russian
Bortnikov’s Portrait of a Man and a study for Kazakh State University of Cinematography (VGIK), focuses
Women, Nikolay Krutilnikov’s Portrait of Jambyl, in her Self-portrait painted in the 1960s, with a
Alexander Yevdakov’s seemingly plain outdoor complicated play of hues and shades, on her feelings
compositions, Alexander Rittikh’s impressions from and contemplations.
the nature of Kazakhstan, and Konstantin Baranov’s Each artist from the 1960-1970s generation
testimonies to his time, all of which unveil the spirit of discovered their own, very individual style and
the artists, as well as their perception of the world. way of expression in watercolour, be it a romantic
The masterful portraits and landscapes by the or lyric narrative, an instantaneous emotion, or
artists who came to Kazakhstan from other regions of contemplation about the dramatic foundations of
the country during the Soviet period and influenced the the being. The collection of watercolours from this
artistic environment to a significant extent, including period demonstrates how effective the technique can
Igor Balkhozin, Baki Urmanche and N. Yagodkin, be in expressing all the diversities of life. A distinctive
were somewhat of a guide into professional drawing feature of watercolours created during that period is
and painting techniques. Many of them who had been the richness and boldness of solutions in painting.
earlier in the centre of Russia’s creative life and part of Uke Azhiyev, Marlen Temirgaliyev, Ivan Kvachko and
famous artistic groups were exiled to the republic or many other painters promoted this form of art in the
came here because they fell in love with this land to region.
ultimately become the history of its fine arts. The subsequent period saw a breakthrough
Of special interest are the suburbs of Alma-Ata in watercolourists’ individuality. Gani Bayanov,
painted by Alexander Rittikh, who had received for example, depicted – in his abundant variations
academic education in Europe. of subdued colours – the slow life of the steppe,
Regina Velikanova’s pieces convey the while Boris Pak used bold spots of colour to create
fascinating beauty of nature in Alma-Ata. She was resonant dynamic compositions, and Kanafia Ospanov
among the first artists who began to draw the city denied polychromy and built his works in a linear
and continued to do so throughout her life. The monochrome rhythm. Their pieces made with high
sculpturesque forms and the warm velvety palette of professionalism and individuality form a significant
The Day of the Woeful News (1954), A New House on part of the museum’s collection.
an Old Street (1955) and Buds Swelling (1957) express

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