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Painting

The Boy with Small Sticks. 2004. The Eagle over the Nest. 2000. Grunyakha, the Poet’s Mother. 1978.

Mother”. This is a portrait painted in 1973, The idea of the human and protruding forefront with one device as
which is in the Tretyakov Gallery now. The old sculptors.
painter accurately marked his model essence. noospheric integrity These pillar-shaped figures decorate
It is in her openness, in the calm dignity as a cosmic being middle-aged sacred groves in numerous
of the middle-aged smiling woman, in her Yugorsk principalities, the main of which
balanced posture of the household goddess is very close was Belogorsk sanctuary. Yermak’s chain
Menkva. Monumental wooden utensils of armour was kept there as a specific relic.
the house only underlines the stability of to Raishev The painter knew about the legendary
the lifestyle. These women continue their Ugoric warriors from Salym’s and Kazim’s
people, they are genuine foremothers. It is no snow covering. The transparent naked female territories from the epos. Raishev appealed
accident that Raishev clearly highlights her silhouettes are soaring above these enigmatic to the legendary past in the works of 1980s
female bosom. The painter’s favourite device wastes. Gods are called “severe” by Raishev. – 1990s. He vests heroes with the features of
is to bring a colourful contrast into the The stern horse-rider Mir-Susne-Khum inaccessible power and creates monumental
severe tint of a picture. So the open yellow supervises the human world. However, he is figures. The very works adorn the entrance to
sheet of paper with a dry fish occurs near the also its protector in front of the supreme god the artist’s gallery and studio. In “The Eagle
heroine. In the polyptych “The Golden Boy” Numi-Torum. over the Nest” (2000), Mir-Susne-Khum
(2012), Raishev specifically continued the The Khanty tradition was confirmed appears as a warrior-horse-rider. Lashing the
problematics of “Grunyakha”. In the idyllic culturally when in 1985-1987, in Khanty- horse, he made it rear up to regard the people’s
world of the blooming nature, a sleeping Mansiysk, the ethnographic park Torum- world better. The painter found the way
naked boy is dreaming about the world Maa was created by the national writers’ to show the proportion between the earth
magic. The future poet will embody the lake initiative. It was created on the place of and heaven very precisely. It is underlined
wonders, with their splashing swans, taiga Samarovskiy Chugas, which belonged to with diagonal movements of the clearly cut
secrecy, girls’ tenderness admiring the nature Yugorsk prince before capturing Siberia. silhouette in the background of the shining
on the lake banks, i.e. all world harmony in Now in the park, among the century trees, sky and prolonged horizontal lines in the
his verses. Even earlier, in 2004, he drew genuine traditional houses and maintenance earth space. The colour composition of the
“The Boy with Small Sticks”. The child is buildings of the nomadic and settled Khanty picture is skilfully harmonised, despite its
composing a melody and the creativity is are gathered. There are original artefacts, reserve.
changing his body. The outstretched left hunting and fishing tools, clothes and In the cycle “Ugorsk Legend” (1985-
arm is becoming the harp foundation, to the jewellery as well. It also places kin and family 1987), having emphasised the topics of the
sounds of which everything is submitted. It sacred groves. Their sculptures were made by Khanty historical past and beliefs, that were
is the eternal theme of the world art. Raishev. The Ob-Ugric art tradition traces dangerous for the totalitarian consciousness,
The female origin marks many spheres of the back to the ancient times, the Neolithic Raishev raised one more problem
Khanty world. The spirits of meadows, fields, statues of which remained in Shigirskiy which is very significant for the Khanty
and tigers are women. Raishev embodies and Gorbunskiy peats and were shown on contemporary cultural understanding and
the North enchantment by depicting the the Hermitage exhibition “An Animal and a national identity. The Khanty territories
boundless tundra space being penetrated Person. The Ancient Eurasia’s Art” in 2002. are the richest ones in terms of gas and oil
with the special shimmering light. The earth Its materials brings the sustainability in the in the RF. In the years of the most active
colour becomes lilac, when wild rosemary very tradition of these sculptures making as working out, companies’ owners were
blooms, and crimson from cowberries. The well as in the constancy of masters’ devices. laying the service lines not only in places
withered grass covers bald mountains before Raishev models cheeks, eyes-pits, the nose, of the genuine Khanty lands but also across

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