Verba Art. Энциклопедия Современного Искусства/Contemporary Art Encyclopedia

In his opinion, the national character of art is determined not only by the image of the characteristic national life, colors and forms of the surrounding nature, the gifts of the land on which the people live, their stories, but also by the reflection of national ideals and poetics of the world that have been forming over the centuries.

He introduces objects of Ossetian everyday life and the fruits of Ossetian land into his paintings, finds an adequate coloristic structure of his canvases, consonant with the colors of Ossetian nature and ancient architecture, as well as expressing traits of a national character with its external restraint and huge internal emotional energy.

Shalva Bedoev is a master of a large thematic picture. His work plays an important role in shaping the contemporary art of Ossetia and Russia.

He works in various genres, including – portrait, still life and landscape. But one of the most important places in the area of his thematic interests is the mythological genre, which he sees in the lyrical and poetic aspect and reveals with the help of interpreted compositional techniques of symbolism and unique color.

The softly shining spots on Bedoev’s canvases, born of observing the play of transparent reflexes and color shadows on a sunny day, seem to emit light and give these images a wonderful mesmerizing vision that is born in front of the viewer.

Painting for him is a luminiferous stream of color, and the frame of the picture is an illusion of a trap for the uniqueness of an instant, allowing the viewer to feel ownership of the mystery of the image.

Бедоев Шалва Евгеньевич Живописец.

Родился 15.10.1940 г. в с. Монастер Юго-Осетинской авт. Области Гр. ССР.

Живёт и работает в г. Москва и Владикавказе РСО-Алания.

Академик Российской академии художеств (Южное региональное отделение, (2007), Народный художник РСО-Алании (1984) и Народный художник Южной Осетии (2000), Заслуженный художник РФ (1988) награждён медалью ордена «За заслуги перед отечеством II степени» (2006) г.

Окончил институт живописи, скульптуры и архитектуры им. И. Е. Репина (1969), станковая живопись, педагоги: Е.Е. Моисеенко, П.Т. Фомин, П.Л. Белоусов.