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Painting

THE LIFE IS SO

BRIGHT THAT ALL

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he artist’s credo demands clarification. The origin,

history, contemporary culture of his people is

meaningful for G.S. Raishev. These are the basic

T motives of the painter’s works. The tasks are too

enormous for one person and it seems that they are impossible to

cope with.

Rozenberg Natalia Abramovna,
Doctor of Culture Studies, PhD in Art History, Professor,
the member of the International Art Experts’ Association
(Vyborg, St. Petersburg)

Gennadiy Stepanovich Raishev, who is Russian art development. G.S. Raishev is a his career, he had to prevail over the
the RF Honoured Artist, the corresponding person of a difficult fate. His way consists indifference and misunderstanding of the
member of the Russian Art Academy, will be of overcoming. Firstly, after his father’s Khanty culture.
85 years old in 2019. arrest and shooting in 1938 (owing to Nowadays we only start to understand
the tragic circumstances of the case “The that, alongside with the post-industrial
The artist’s credo demands clarification. Finnish People Liberation Union”, falsified civilisation, the traditional culture can exist
The origin, history, contemporary culture in late 1920-s – early 1930-s by the Joint where kin traditions remain major social ties.
of his people is meaningful for G.S. Raishev. State Political Directorate and party It should seem that the small in numbers
These are the basic motives of the painter’s bodies against the representatives of the people (22.5 thousand) being engaged
works. The tasks are too enormous for one Udmurt and Finno-Ugric intellectuals), into nomadic reindeer herding and fishing
person and it seems that they are impossible there were early orphanhood and half- settled on the vast territories of the subpolar
to cope with. starved childhood. After graduating from Northern Ural. Natural spirits, ancient zoo-
However, today, on the eve of G.S. a high educational institution, Gennadiy anthropomorphic predecessors, people’s
Raishev’s 85th birthday, it is obvious Stepanovich had to move a lot together legendary warriors-protectors have been
that the Khanty art is formed mainly due with the family. He worked as a teacher, being praised during the celebrations rituals
to his efforts. The painter’s works are a a theatre designer and collaborated with combining a word, a song, and a dance into
significant component in the context of the publishing houses. In the beginning of a dramatized action. According to Raishev’s

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