Aleksandr Bazhbeuk-Melikyan
(September 11, 1891 - July 20, 1966) |
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Aleksandr Bazhbeuk-Melikyan |
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Tbilisi |
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Armenian |
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September 11, 1891 |
| Death: |
July 20, 1966 |
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Biography
| He was active in Georgia. He studied at the Tiflis Art School from 1906 to 1910 and at the St Petersburg Academy of Arts from 1911 to 1913. Like Lado Gudiashvili, with whom he held his first exhibition in Tiflis in 1919, he was initially drawn to the aesthetics of Symbolism and he particularly admired the work of Watteau as well as Venetian and Netherlandish painters of the 16th to 18th centuries. The sharpness of the Futurist forms characteristic of his early works, for example the Shooting Gallery, was gradually softened by the use of muted and sombre colours. An atmosphere of quasi-Surrealist magical ritual began to infuse his images, as in Optical Illusion. The heroines of his small intimate pictures, circus scenes, whimsically theatrical genre pieces, nude life studies and portraits, for example Lady Conjurer embody the idea of the eternal feminine, appearing in an aura of romantic mystery. His subtle technique and tender sensuality are realized in the interplay of rich, thick brushstrokes, creating a warm, luminous effect. His poetic and erotic fantasies were uncompromisingly at variance with the official thematic picture, while the lyrical sincerity of his work has influenced succeeding generations of Armenian artists. |
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