Biography of the Bashkir artist

Home »Biographies» Artists Rais Khalitov today would have turned 90 years since the birth of the famous painter Rais Yusupovich Khalitov, one of those artists who did a lot for the development of the Bashkir school of painting. Rais Khalitov was born on November 4 in Ufa, in a large family. Rais had eleven brothers and sisters. In the year, he graduated from the Tashkent Art College.

In those years, high -class experts taught there, during the war, evacuated from Moscow and Leningrad and the remaining to work there, so the young artist received a fairly high academic education. After graduation, Rais Yusupovich returned to his native Ufa. For many years he worked as an artist in the Bashkir creative and production plant of the Union of Artists of the Republic. Since the year, he actively participated in republican, zonal, regional, all -Russian, all -Union and foreign exhibitions.

Since the year, Rais Khalitov has been in the Union of Artists. The artist tried his strength in a variety of genres. Gained wide fame as an outstanding landscape painter and portrait painter. He worked a lot as a monumental artist, his hands were made by a decorative panel and paintings for public institutions of the city of Salavat, Buraevo and Kandrov. Most of all I loved to work with watercolors.

In the year he was awarded the honorary title "Honored Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan." Rais Yusupovich was very demanding of his work. This is explained, perhaps, the fact that during his lifetime not a single his personal exhibition took place. The only such exhibition with great success was held by the annual of the artist, a year after his death.

She took place in two halls of the Bashkir Art Museum. The exhibition clearly demonstrated that the master had reached a high level in realism, continued the best traditions of the Bashkir school of painting, and showed himself an outstanding colorist. The earliest work of Rais Khalitov “Portrait of M. Khudaiberdina” is written in the traditions of an academic realistic letter.

This topic is very close to the artist, his elder brother Ilyas burned down in a tank during the war years. The canvas "Volunteers. In the picture "Time. Self -portrait with mother ”creatively used the principle of contrasts. In the window opening, you can see the dark silhouette of the artist.

On the dark background of the wall, the image of the mother, at which the author looks with love and tenderness is visible. Love for the native land, the fullness of the breath of life is imbued with magnificent watercolor landscapes Raisa Yusupovich. The artist was looking for objects for work throughout Bashkiria, having traveled with a sketchbook many regions of the republic.

Such a manner follows from the features of the artist’s worldview, in whose works there is certainly a dramatic beginning, and these sensations find expression in dynamic plastic and the color of the color of his work. ” In life, Rais Khalitov was not very talkative, did not like to talk about himself. But about the paintings, about his understanding of painting, his colleagues and their works could talk endlessly.

He knew how to do a lot with his own hands, he built a suburban cottage himself. He considered his real muse to his wife Elsa Zarifovna, who abandoned the prestigious work in order to pay more attention to Raisa Halitov and support him in his favorite business. Rais Yusupovich did not like when incompetent people learned him. They say that once a kind of regional official began to arrog the arrogantly to teach him.

So the artist took the brush right before his eyes and began to paint over the finished painting. The master was very proud of his daughters, who graduated from the art and graphic department of the Bashpedin Institute. The eldest, Dina Raisovna, became a teacher of drawing. The youngest, Emilia Raisovna, works as a journalist. Rais Khalitov died on September 14 and was buried in Ufa.

Most of his picturesque works are stored in the Bashkir Art Museum.