It turned out that the chief came there for an hour to check the situation before leaving for vacation. What’s the matter? I need to see the chief. He went to the art-college at the Tretjakov Gallery, where a young man (passing by) asked him what he was looking for. My parents addressed our relative in Moscow asking him to clarify the situation.June, July, August, entrance exams have passed – still no reply. I gathered my best paintings and we sent the enveloped package to Moscow. So they recommended me for the Moscow art-college. When the teachers looked at it, they said that even the students that study art for 3 years are not able to draw so well. My father saw my drawing, took it and decided to show my sketch to the school art teachers.I felt something like a craving for drawing, so I briefly drew the portrait and then threw it away. When they discharged me from the clinic, I was walking along the corridor and accidentally glanced at the table, where a magazine with Lenin’s photo was laying or, maybe it was his painted portrait – I don’t recall now. I’ve been ill and had to be admitted at a hospital – some problems with my lungs.When did they say that you need to move forward and go somewhere else for professional studies?.I now realize that the separation from other students during painting classes is very important and more effective. There was also something blue and an enormous round palette… We were not forced to paint altogether. …I liked the smell of Zinc white in the room.Is the smell of these paints really good?. There was a corner with a pot and also the paints smelling so yummy! Something like that… He knew who I was so he gave me a sheet of paper and said: go ahead – paint this. So, you, yourself went to the children art-school’s chief and said that you wanted to paint….I’ve been independent and free in my choice. Go to this school and study the culture – they said.Such a metamorphosis…īato started to study painting in his homeland, at the small art school in his village. Bair decided to become a surgeon, while Bato, who was an excellent archer dreaming about a medical career became a very successful artist. But an accident that brought badly injured Bair to the hospital, drastically changed his plans. She sent her middle son Bair to an art-school. Narrator: Bato’s mom wanted one of her sons to become a painter. The smoke smelled great (Makhorka – homemade tobacco) and it was floating among the dancing rays of sun coming from the window… Incredible, fascinating scene! Granny had many friends, who were gathering in house playing cards and smoking. My parents left for khabarovsk (Siberia, town), so I stayed with my grandmother for several months.Do you remember yourself in childhood? What kind of person was Bato as a kid?.Viewers freeze looking at Bato’s paintings – his incredible colors and the light that encounters paintings induce real admiration in people. He enriched impressionism by adding some ideas of 21 century to it, where both - realism and abstraction took their proper positions. Narrator: Bato is today’s world-renown impressionist. Well, any painting might be priced either high or low… Some of them today cost up to a million dollars… Auctions in Paris stimulated the rise of your paintings’ prices. I don’t like commissions and I always warn people that I’ll paint this and like that…. Do you paint any commissioned paintings? Yes, I’ve got the medal and the diploma. Did the patriarch of Russia Alexey the second give you any reward for this work? Was it a significant stage in your artistic life? You did paint a fresco at Cathedral of Christ the Savior (central dome and dome above altar). Yes, the ratio is approximately 70% to 30% Market experts state that joyful and sunny paintings are much more popular than the mid-tone and “sad” ones. I burned half of them, the rest is archived, so yes. You are still securely keeping your oldest paintings… No, of course, not, but I was glad to study in Moscow. Could you imagine back then that you will become a world-renown artist You were 12 y old when your mother sent you to Moscow. I was the second grade student when I saw several adults working on the 3 sq. And the most vivid memory from your childhood is the portrait of Lenin painted on the wall of your school? In your book you wrote that your dream was to become a medical doctor. Is it true that in childhood you liked the TV-project “Health” the most? Is it true that you choose your future profession because of the smell?
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