Reality and Fantasy: Jubilee Exhibition of Works by Boris Belmasov in the New Manezh
The jubilee exhibition in the New Manezh features paintings, portraits, landscapes, still lifes, decorative compositions by the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts Boris Belmasov created for over forty years of his work.
Boris Belmasov is a representative of modern classical realism. He was born in 1940. Boris Belmasov started his art education in M. Grekov Art College in Rostov-on-the Don, then graduated from I. Repin St. Petersburg State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. The artist has tried his hand at various genres and stylistic trends.
The highlights of the exhibition are his pictures “Muse of Inspiration”, “Gypsy Motifs” inspired by Alexander Pushkin’s poems; “Mystery of the Wood”, one of the results of his pictorial experiments where the concrete landscape becomes a fantastic image of the nature; his works depicting the horrors of World War II including “Death for Death” which he presented as a gift to the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.
Boris Belmasov is a holder of many prestigious awards. His works are in museums in Russia, Germany, Bulgaria, in private collections in France, the Great Britain, Spain, the United States, Poland, Israel and other countries.
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