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370:(1930). Until the mid-1930s, the artist, as a rule, chose a dark color scheme that hearkened back to the paintings of classical artists. He loved the interplay of contrast that would unexpectedly and dramatically light up aspects of figures and objects. He combined the acute sensibility of a modern artist with his own personal whimsy. The worlds he created were romantic. In the eternal themes that had appeared to be depleted over the century, he found a new and unexpected twist: in his interpretation, they were infused with a modern feel.
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The range of subjects
Bazhbeuk-Melikyan painted remained fairly stable. He repeatedly varied his favorite motifs. However, over the years the nature of the emotional structure of his paintings has changed. Romantic mystery and ambiguity gradually gave way in the 1940s to a more immediate, impulsive
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The circus theme occupied an important place in his oeuvre from his earliest years, and he dedicated much of his talent to its poetic and magical world. In the circus, he saw the ancient traditions that had survived to his day, and admired the plastic beauty of its presentations. At the same time,
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His family estimates that
Bazhbeuk-Melikyan painted over two thousand canvases, but ruthlessly pruned them down to about a hundred. Given his perfectionism, every time he created a new work, he would go over his old paintings and destroy any that did not meet his uncompromising standard. When his
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Bazhbeuk-Melikyan is noted for his depiction of female figures; such as magicians, jugglers, exotically costumed women, and nudes. Like his friend
Gudiashvili, he painted voluptuous women, but he was more intensely executed and more passionate. He led a quiet protest against the prudish Soviet
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published an article naming him an enemy of the people, he was expelled from the Union of
Artists of Georgia. Charents and Tabidze were both executed that same year, and Bazhbeuk-Melikyan lived in fear of arrest. That did not come to pass, and when he painted his
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In the 1920s, Bazhbeuk-Melikyan was an active participant in the
Tbilisi avant-garde, collaborating with Futurists such as the poet Kara-Darvish, and Georgian painters such as
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In the 1960s, Bazhbeuk-Melikyan made frequent trips to
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