On the 29^th of July, 2010 the retrospective exhibition of Boris Kazakov (1937 – 2008) – «Plain poetry of everyday life» – will be opened in 17.00 p.m. at the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus.
The operation of the exhibition will last till the 30^th of August, 2010.

Boris Kazakov. Reflections on the profession
An artist, depicting everything, that surrounds the place where he lives is a national painter.
1. My stereo-painting. Observing the subjects, occurring in nature, I have seen: a texture (granularity) of a material having its own independent life on a large subject is always revealed in under tints. They in their turn have their own light, half shade, shade and shadow. I began using texture at my art works at the right places, and this gave a painting an additional expressive strength, and enabled me to become a painter like nobody on earth. And my painting was called «STEREO-PAINTING».
2. Nature and everything created by God has all the necessary for a painting’s creation. A painter is left the possibility of choosing everything his mind and heart is in need.
3. I like depicting a landscape with a man inside it. I adore a landscape I am drawing. Usually it is my Motherland’s landscape.
(As for my personal life and creative work I shall not be able of living abroad).
4. Colour itself and colour harmonization have their image and their psychology. While working under a painting I need to know that.
White is a festive colour and it means attention. Black and red represent an image of strength, cry and force. Black and orange are dramatic ones. Green is worm and it conveys the meaning of an easy mind. Brown is tacit and static. Yellow is a light and trouble-free colour for children. And so on.
5. For me painting is how to make colour invisible with its own help that the very substance of an entire world should be sensed instead of colours.
6. You have to be a too light-headed person to perceive in painting only colour and nothing more.
7. In art of painting: a colour conveys a feeling; a drawing – a reflection. The top can not be reached only by a feeling. It means just one thing: painting and ART itself cannot exist without a drawing.
8. A good painting is similar to a town, which cannot be built at one go, but the further and more attentively it is being created, the richer in content it becomes.
9. My works are my soul’s materialization.
10. For me the words uttered by a woman-spectator were beyond praise; after seeing my art works, she said: ”Looks as if it has not been painted at all”.
11. Humanism and patriotism are the great factors of culture. Government has always been glorified by the great art; and then a government was formed into a nation, sometimes a great one!
12. In the sphere of graphics (drawing) I managed to achieve a comfortable ease alongside with the originality of drawing. I have devised my own method: engraving on white paper (in drawing an object) and a shape’s working with a pencil.
(The Manuscript. Galiya Kazakova’s Archive)

Boris Kazakov was born on the 30th of May, 1937 in Balakhna of the Gorkov (Nizhny Novgorod) Oblast, Russia. In 1953 he entered to the Gorkov (Nizhny Novgorod) Art School, he was a pupil of Iliodor Myasnikov. In 1958 he graduated it (the school) with honours. In 1958 he entered the Belarusian State Institute of Drama and Arts (the Belarusian State Academy of Arts), the Department of Theatre Decor. He was taught by outstanding painters and excellent pedagogues such as Oskar Mariks and Evgeny Chemodurov. After the graduation project’s defence (sketches for William Shakespeare’s play «Antony and Cleopatra») he was assigned to a job at the Minsk Youth Theatre. He worked with an outstanding stage director Vladimir Malankin. During the 1964–1968s he framed up 14 performances and plays at the Youth Theatre in Minsk and 4 shows at the theatres of Mogilev and Gomel.
After leaving the Theatre he had become engaged in painting and graphics. During the 1970–1974s he occupied the post of a teacher of painting at the Belarusian State Technical and Art Institute.
In 1970 he became a member of the Belarusian Union of Artists of the USSR.
In 1982 20 portraits of outstanding natural scientists were created for the purposes of the Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Research Institute situated in Minsk (Dmitry Babkin’s project).
Since 1962 he had been an active participant of almost all Anniversary Republican and All Union exhibitions alongside with a wide range of foreign ones. His four personal exhibitions were organized in Minsk (1989, 1994, 1999, 2004).
The paintings «About the first tractor driver» (the ІІ Degree Diploma during the Contest «Young Guard of the USSR», 1978) and «Milk of 1942» (a Silver Medal awarded at the VDNKh (the All-Union Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy) of the USSR, 1981) were bought by the Tretyakov Gallery. His art works are also stored at the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, inside the live stocks of the Belarusian Union of Artists, in other state and private collections of Belarus, former Soviet republics and countries outside the former Soviet Union.
He was awarded with a lot of Certificates of Merit, the Diploma for the best scenic design of the year (1967), a Medal of the Belarusian Union of Artists for the distinguished service in the sphere of Fine Arts (1999).
In 1991 he was entitled with the title of a distinguished man of art of the Republic of Belarus.