„Потпури" от Балчик
'Potpourri' from Balchik

Summary/Abstract: The text places an unusual accent on the history and culture of Balchik. The painting by Ivan B. Ivanov The Balchik Brass Band (1988) became a starting point for the analysis of moments from the creative life of its author and also about the treatment of the brass band as an inseparable part of our notion about the city. In it come alive memories form the youth and the experiences creative passion unlocked by the ‘sounding’ music. Presented are the author’s means of expression - the line expressiveness, the symbolism of the form, the taking out of the color outside its localized values. The author mingles with the artists that during the 60s and 70s helped Bulgarian art return back to the important and imminent forms of expression, when its experiments with plastically synthesized forms and color correlations led it abstract compositions. The theme of the brass music is examined in the context of the emergence of brass bands in Bulgaria during also that period when the painting was created. Pointed out is that repetitiveness of the memory, which binds a number of events and personal experiences during a whole century with the music of the city brass band.

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