Two years ago I found artworks of my granduncle on internet, I wish I could find his photo to see but I couldn't. I had only a full name of my ancestor who lived long life and already passed away. After reading his biography I finally have found a lot of answers about my own creative life, art and destiny. Why did I study Architecture somewhere else while I had a grand uncle who was a professor of art at an Architectural Academy thousands of miles away from my place? Why didn’t I ever see his paintings, art studio and never met him or his kids or grand kids in person? Why did he become an artist if he studied architecture and had a master degree of architecture?
It’s a long weird story of our family, broken links and forgotten names.
And it’s a hard lesson of history we must never forget. This oil painting called Ural
(mountain ridge between the European territory of Russia and Siberia) was created in 1955, you can see it enlarged from the web site - here is a link to an art gallery where my granduncle, Alexander Filipovich Burack is represented.
http://www.uralgallery.ru/en-authors.php?id=8
I'll try to unveil undiscovered sides of my ancestry in my next posts! I hope to find his auto portrait - most artists made it at least once!
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