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Colorful painting by Shor artist Lyubov Arbachakova

Shor Madonna. 1995. Oil on canvas. Colorful painting by Shor artist Lyubov Arbachakova

Shor Madonna. 1995. Oil on canvas. Colorful painting by Shor artist Lyubov Arbachakova

Colorful painting by Shor artist Lyubov Arbachakova
Lyubov Nikitovna Arbachakova (nee Tudegesheva) was born, so to speak, at the right time and right place. God giving talents, immediately noticed her, walked straight up to her and gave many – a gift of word, colors and scientific knowledge. All these generous gifts God has combined with the incredible gift of a great soul.
Lyubov Arbachakova – Shor painter and graphic artist, poet, scholar and researcher of Shor heroic epic, candidate of philological sciences, a member of the Union of Artists (2005) and the Union of Russian Writers (1997). She was born May 1, 1963 in the heart of Mountain Shoria: in a small Siberian village of Anzass (Kemerovo region) among amazingly beautiful and majestic mountain taiga. She will carefully and skillfully transfer these colors on her canvases. And these colors produce the expected, and still unexpected effect. According to art critics and viewers of her personal exhibitions, her paintings radiate some kind of extraordinary energy and heat.

Bear. 1995. Oil on canvas

Bear. 1995. Oil on canvas. Painting by Shor artist Lyubov Arbachakova. Kemerovo region, Russia

Her paintings have acquired private collectors from Russia, USA, Germany and Turkey. She illustrated the book “Shor language in pictures,” for which she received a diploma of the 1st degree (2002). In addition, she designed books of Shor poets: NE Belchegeshev, t. B. Tudegeshev and GV Kostochakov.

Painting by L. N. Arbachakova is valuable for its attitude. And it, like every attitude is bright and sunny. But it’s not just in colors that are bright and warm. And not only that objects are the images of mythological characters. And not in the fact that almost all of her pictures have a plot plot. As it turned out, they are like the parable in paint. In fact, all of this together is unheard vision and a sense of peace.

LN Arbachakova with her creativity refers to the origins of Shor culture (and not only!), because she herself is a resident of a completely different era, a connoisseur of other cultures, and finally, a woman who returns home.

Two. Canvas, oil. 1996

Two. Canvas, oil. 1996

The basic image-symbols of her paintings are central worldview in the traditional folklore of Turkic peoples of Southern Siberia (bear, bird, horse, deer, yurt, and the family tree). The function of these characters – to embody specially coded information that serves as a means of storing it, stockpiling, transferring, and enabling people to negotiate their collective activity goals. For example, the image of a bird as a symbol of the upper world, and at the same time a symbol of dreams, successfully accompanying mankind since ancient times, from the folklore of the Firebird to Bluebird by Maurice Maeterlinck.

We see in the works of Arbachakova the unity of fabulously mythological world. This is not the kingdom of men, and the kingdom of nature (although we feel the presence of man). Man is not the master of life, but a partaker of the natural process in a state of perfect harmony with it.

Ornamental and decorative works are perceived as a direct stream of consciousness, reflection on the archetype. Art of Arbachakova is ambiguous, it requires from the viewer an intuitive and emotional empathy. Because it is not so much the world of reality and fantasy world, as given to us in sensation, but the empirical world, the world of intimate confessional thoughts and feelings, colorful projection of the author painted on canvas.

Painting by Shor artist Lyubov Arbachakova

An urgent letter. Oil on cardboard. 1997

An urgent letter. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Beautiful girl. Oil on cardboard. 1999

Beautiful girl. Oil on cardboard. 1999

Betrothed. Oil on cardboard. 1998

Betrothed. Oil on cardboard. 1998

Caravan of centuries. Canvas, oil. 1997

Caravan of centuries. Canvas, oil. 1997

Children of the Village Anzass. Arbachakova left in the front row

Children of the Village Anzass. Arbachakova left in the front row

Choosing the bride. Oil on cardboard. 1998

Choosing the bride. Oil on cardboard. 1998

Dinner. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Dinner. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Drawings on the tambourine. Oil on cardboard. 1998

Drawings on the tambourine. Oil on cardboard. 1998

Evening talk. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Evening talk. Oil on cardboard. 1997

First steps. Oil on cardboard. 1997

First steps. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Flowers of Shoria. 1996. Oil on canvas

Flowers of Shoria. 1996. Oil on canvas

Friends. 1996. Oil on canvas

Friends. 1996. Oil on canvas

Ginger. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Ginger. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Gold architecture. Oil on cardboard. 1996

Gold architecture. Oil on cardboard. 1996

In the garden. Oil on cardboard. 1997

In the garden. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Meeting. Oil on cardboard. 1996

Meeting. Oil on cardboard. 1996

Procession of spirits. 1995. Oil on canvas

Procession of spirits. 1995. Oil on canvas

Shor artist Lyubov Arbachakova (b. 1965)

Shor artist Lyubov Arbachakova (b. 1965)

Sincere conversation. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Sincere conversation. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Song of the Shaman. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Song of the Shaman. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Still life with bird cherry. 1994. Oil on canvas

Still life with bird cherry. 1994. Oil on canvas

Stroll. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Stroll. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Study at the college, 1995

Study at the college, 1995

Talented Shor artist Lyubov Arbachakova

Talented Shor artist Lyubov Arbachakova

Travelers. 1996. Oil on canvas

Travelers. 1996. Oil on canvas

Winter Anzass. 1995. Oil on canvas

Winter Anzass. 1995. Oil on canvas

Year of the Red Bull. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Year of the Red Bull. Oil on cardboard. 1997

Ancient Aul. 2002

Ancient Aul. 2002

Bypassing the possessions. 2002

Bypassing the possessions. 2002

In love. 2001

In love. 2001

In the twilight. 2002

In the twilight. 2002

My childhood. 2003

My childhood. 2003

My favorite. 2002

My favorite. 2002

Secret meeting. 2000

Secret meeting. 2000

Self-portrait. 2002

Self-portrait. 2002

Snowdrops. 2000

Snowdrops. 2000

Sunny deer. 1999

Sunny deer. 1999

Sweet bird-cherry. 2003

Sweet bird-cherry. 2003

Those who live now, didn't exist before. 2003

Those who live now, didn’t exist before. 2003

Toi. 2002

Toi. 2002

Winter night. 2003

Winter night. 2003

Blooming bird-cherry. 2003

Blooming bird-cherry. 2003

Chatting. 2003

Chatting. 2003

Family keepers

Family keepers

Middle world. 2003

Middle world. 2003

Poppies. 2003

Poppies. 2003

Primroses, 2003

Primroses, 2003

Sky deer. 2003

Sky deer. 2003

Sunny day. 2003

Sunny day. 2003

Sunny people. 2003

People of the Sun. 2003

The Dawn. 2003

The Dawn. 2003

Warriors going to fight. 2003

Warriors going to fight. 2003