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komarova n.p.: the name of the buryat sculptor strange to the general public before the year 2000 became famous after his first personal exhibition in irkutsk. the event attracted a lot of curious visitors though something even more curious happened on the next day after inauguration ceremony - venerable artist would come to visit the debutante - to meet him personally ... it was not out of a mere politeness but it was the expression of their utter surprise and appreciation of the uncommon art permeated with living psychology and synthesis. the sense of singularity, newness of the oriental perception inhaled in the grotesque and fantastic images was preserved in their later collections showed in moscow in the year 2000.
the creative year enables us to make a certain generalization of dashi's art. there seem to be three basic images. one of them has developed in school of lev golovitsky professor of krasnoyarsk institute of fine arts whose workshop was attended by dashi. it is a academic trend training professionalism of the artist. the school and the talent have enabled dashi to create marvelosly shaped and expressive realistic sculptures as "the wild" and "bukha-noyon" that instantly became the classic of the buryat national art. more..>