


He is very accurate with hue changes on a form ,made much more difficult because of using optical color mixing at the same time. It is tempting to see his technique as being the main reason for the painting’s beauty, but in fact the beauty arises to a large extent from his strong foundation in color observation and in his drawing skills, where he skillfully uses suggestion. He uses a very interesting optical color mixing brushwork technique using multi-colored brushstrokes sometimes in combination with a wet-in-wet adjacent brushstrokes technique. The paintings are usually painted in middle values with a few dark accents, and sometimes in a high key to emphasize the feeling of strong sunlight. He uses many types of contrast: contrast of detail, contrast of temperature ,and contrast of thick and thin. The compositions are always very strong, with an interesting arrangement of shapes, and beautiful color harmonies. He is a member of the Moscow Union of Artists, and lives and works in Moscow.Ī key strength in Dugarzhapov’s work is his excellent combination of both far music and near music. He studied at Moscow Art School and graduated from Surikov’s Moscow Art Institute. Biographyīato Dugarzhapov (1966 – ) was born in Duldurga in the Chita Region of Siberia. (Bato was painting behind us).īarry John Raybould (in back) and Bato Dugarzhapov (front left) painting in China Book of Paintings by Bato Dugarzhapov The book includes some of the paintings he created in China with me and one of my students. If you violate these truths, your painting will lose its Visual Poetry You have learn these things so that you can apply them while you are playing on the canvas. These are the fundamental truths of nature. And what are the color variations you see in every sky, no matter where you are in the world. Things such as how colors change depending on how far away from you they are. There are key things you have to know about the visual characteristics you find in nature.

This is the Visual Music of the painting. Play with the paint on your canvas until something beautiful happens, even if its not completely true to the actual scene. React to things in the scene that interest you and get their essence down quickly. Then play with your colors until you come up with something beautiful on the canvas. When you are painting you need to use the scene you are painting as just a starting point.

This means that when you paint you have to do two things: It is the latter that makes the painting more powerful, since it relates to us on a human level. Rather it is all about creating a beautiful visual experience, that is based on some fundamental truths of nature. One of the core ideas behind the Visual Music & Poetry ® idea is that creating a master painting is not at all about making a faithful reproduction of what you see. It turns we are very much aligned in our thinking, and in particular on the Visual Music & Poetry ® concept – a philosophy of painting that gradually emerged when researching information on painting for the Virtual Art Academy online painting classes. I have been fortunate enough to spend time with him, painting and learning about his thoughts on what it takes to produce truly creative and masterful work. Click the square button bottom right.īato Dugarzhapov is one of the master painters of our time. Here is a book created by Bato Dugarzhapov that summarizes some of his key thoughts on painting.
