Albert Aleksandrovich Bakun (born August 21, 1946 , Vyborg , Leningrad Region [1] ) is a Soviet and Russian painter, a member of the Hermitage creative association [2] . Representative of the school of analytical painting.
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| Genre | landscape, portrait, analytical copy, analytical composition, abstraction |
| Study | Leningrad Art College named after Serov, Moscow Polygraphic Institute |
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Biography
In the 60s, he studied Fine Arts at the Vyborg studio of drawing and painting. In 1962 he entered the Leningrad Art College named after V. A. Serov . After completing the second year, he was expelled with the wording “for his enthusiasm for the bourgeois-formalistic directions of Western art. In 1965, he was reinstated in the school, which he graduated in 1967.
Since the fall of 1964 he regularly visits the Hermitage in order to study the art of old masters. At the end of 1969, he began to take lessons in analytical interpretation from G. Ya. Dlugach. The creative process of copying Hermitage masterpieces continues today, five decades after the first museum experience.
Twice - in 1967 and in 1988, he applied for admission to the Union of Artists of the USSR , which were rejected because of "enthusiasm for the formalistic directions of Western art." Member of the Hermitage creative association , participant in numerous exhibitions of this association in St. Petersburg , Vyborg , Kiev , Kharkov and 24 states of America. As part of a creative association in the 1990s, he taught at schools and universities in the United States. Since 2008, writes and exhibited in the south of France.
Creativity
The basis of the work of A. A. Bakun was the analytical study and development of geometric constructions. The verified, perfect form of masterpieces and many years of studying the experience of old masters greatly influenced the artist. Formatted, complex in composition, with vivid color solutions “analytical interpretations” have incorporated many years of experience in author's interpretations of the most famous paintings. Work in the State Hermitage lasts fifty-three years and does not end today.
Exhibitions
Personal exhibitions
- 1993 - Gwenda Jay / Addington Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. USA
- 1995 - Upper Edge Gallery, Aspen, Colorado. USA
- 2009 - “Russian Art from A ... Z”, Art Hall “Monaco”, St. Petersburg;
- 2010 - “220 years of the Tauride Palace”, Tauride Palace, St. Petersburg;
- 2011 - “Russian Art from A ... Z”, Art Hall “Monaco”: St. Petersburg;
- 2014 - The Hermitage-Vyborg, Vyborg [1] .
Participation in exhibitions
- 1989 - “From unofficial art to perestroika”, Leningrad [2] ;
- 1990 - “150 Years of Art from Around the World,” Los Angeles. USA;
- 1991 - From Underground to Perestroika, Harbor Exhibition Complex. SPb;
- 1993 - Russian mission of the United Nations, New York. USA [2] ;
- 1995 - World Trade Center, Baltimore. USA [2] ;
- 1998 - “Non-Classical Classics”, State Hermitage Museum [2] [3] ;
- 1998 - “Circles from a stone”, Central Exhibition Hall “Manege”, St. Petersburg [2] ;
- 1999 - Art Museum, Seattle, Washington. USA;
- 2000 - Museum of Art, Monterrey. USA.
Work Location
- State Hermitage Museum ;
- Hermitage-Vyborg ;
- Museums of Sonoma County, USA ;
- Riverside Art Museum, California, USA ;
- Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California, USA ;
- Private collections and galleries in Russia, Western Europe and the USA;
- More than 40 works are exhibited at the LMS Gallery in Saint-Paul-de-Vence , France.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Exhibition of paintings by Albert Bakun . erm.vbgcity.ru . Center Hermitage-Vyborg. - About the exhibition of Bakunin and his biography.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Leykind, Oleg Leonidovich; Severyukhin, Dmitry Yakovlevich. Hermitage School (Creative Association Hermitage) . Encyclopedia of St. Petersburg . Date of treatment July 6, 2017.
- ↑ Non-classical classics: Three generations of students of the Hermitage School G.Ya. Douglach November 6, 1998 - December 6, 1998 . Archived on February 28, 2004.
Literature
- St. Petersburg, encyclopedia. The Hermitage Creative Union;
- Heroes of Leningrad culture. 1950-1980s / Comp. L. Skobkin. - St. Petersburg: Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", 2005.