Vladimir Bogatkin
(1922 - 1971)
Tallinna vaade. 1969
Oil on canvas. 64 x 80 cm
price 2 908 (sold)
Vladimir Bogatkin acquired art education in the 1930ies in Leningrad. He was an appreciated freelance artist and also a recognized stage artist, working mainly in the Moscow Central Theatre.
His works have become part of the Estonian artistic picture maybe because of his marriage with Estonian water-colour painter Valli Lember-Bogatkina. The artist stayed in Estonia frequently and painted here a number of landscapes and cityscapes.
Vladimir Bogatkin does the same with a cityscape as Aleksander Vardi does with a landscape. Also he considers the city to a great extent a pretext for speaking about painting: while painting the red roofs of the old city, Bogatkin concentrates with a rarely seen attention on the light, its different angles of falling and qualities. And if Vardi can skilfully show the transformations of green, then Bogatkin conducts a research in similarily skilful manner of different variations of reddish shades. Roofs of the old city that have transformed into a sign of their own, become here the bearers of the romantic atmosphere. We should not be looking for a dry tourist view, as the focus of the attention of Bogatkin is elsewhere. In case of a cityscape there exist hundreds of possibilities from industrial landscapes to billboards, but Bogatkin’s Vaade Tallinnale (A view of Tallinn) has chosen the most alluring form.
His works have become part of the Estonian artistic picture maybe because of his marriage with Estonian water-colour painter Valli Lember-Bogatkina. The artist stayed in Estonia frequently and painted here a number of landscapes and cityscapes.
Vladimir Bogatkin does the same with a cityscape as Aleksander Vardi does with a landscape. Also he considers the city to a great extent a pretext for speaking about painting: while painting the red roofs of the old city, Bogatkin concentrates with a rarely seen attention on the light, its different angles of falling and qualities. And if Vardi can skilfully show the transformations of green, then Bogatkin conducts a research in similarily skilful manner of different variations of reddish shades. Roofs of the old city that have transformed into a sign of their own, become here the bearers of the romantic atmosphere. We should not be looking for a dry tourist view, as the focus of the attention of Bogatkin is elsewhere. In case of a cityscape there exist hundreds of possibilities from industrial landscapes to billboards, but Bogatkin’s Vaade Tallinnale (A view of Tallinn) has chosen the most alluring form.