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          The Bear Hunting. 2002.


          vision and feelings, to portray the world was   Raishev’s early works. It is worth comparing   the head and face is taken conditionally. The
          to overcome existing rules and go against the   his two self-portraits of 1962 and 2005 years   chest-high image looks like a sculpture, with
          established assessment criteria of the social   as  well  as  the  composition  “Men  in  the   its  look  directed  ahead,  past  a  viewer.  The
          realism art and its genre system.   Russian Sauna” and “The Russian Sauna” of   enormous shadow behind the body symbolises
           The  artist’s  creative  rise  was  taking   1968 and 2007 years in order to make sure.   the space of past years. The naked body that
          place  in  the  years  of  study  (1954-1959)  in   In the early self-portrait, there is a fauvist   is  a  favourable  motive  for  many  painters  is
          Leningrad.  In  the  Hermitage  exposition,   contrast  of  a  yellow  scarf  and  the  neutral   interpreted in an absolutely different way in
          his special attention was attracted with the   light-blue  background  drawing  attention  to   Raishev’s works. His “Russian Sauna” (2007)
          works of Gaugin, Van Gogh, and Matisse. In   the  face  painted  in  the  dark  colour  gamma.   resembles antique mosaics by the same precise
          the Russian museum halls, it was done with   The  dynamic  turn  in  three-quarters,  a  strict   drawing  of  men’s  bodies  and  the  absence
          the  painting  of  “The  Knave  of  Diamonds”.   tensed  look  under  a  wide-brimmed  hat.  It  is   of  extra  details.  It  seems  that  “Men  in  the
          In these very years, chambers with works of   the  artist  who  regards  the  auditory  but  not   Russian  Sauna”,  with  its  circle  composition
          the artists, who had been called “formalists”   vice  versa.  Another  conception  is  inherent   and flaming contrasts of red and green, as in
          once,  were  opened  for  the  audience.  These   in  the  self-portrait  of  2007  from  the  series   Matisse’s “The Dance”, is painted by another
          were full colours, broad painting technique,   “Shadows”.   Everything   is   tranquillity,   artist. Raishev’s style is to remain diverse.
          and  freedom  in  choosing  a  picture  motive   quietude, and concentration in the glimmering   I  would  dare  to  call  one  of  his  works
          that  had  already  been  typical  for  G.S.   of  warm  ochre-red  strokes.  The  contour  of   programmatic. It is “Grunyakha, the Poet’s


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