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The artist was born in 1918 in the city of Mstislavl, Mogilev province, and died in 1994, three years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. All this time, the artist lived on the territory of the BSSR, and his fate was largely determined by the political and cultural conditions of this historical period.

The artist did not have a single solo exhibition during his lifetime due to a negative attitude towards his art and nationality. In 1968, he received an absurd offer from the leadership of the Union of Artists, of which he was a member, to hold a private solo exhibition without the participation of the public and the press, which Israel Basov refused. From 1975 to 1982 the artist was forced not to participate even in group exhibitions. They did not help, including two appeals in 1978 and 1987 with letters to the USSR Ministry of Culture about accepting his works for exhibitions. But until the end of his life, the artist did not betray himself, and his personal life position was an example of stoicism.

His painting is characterized by naive stylization, bright coloring and impasto writing, which ran counter to the official socialist realist cultural ideology. But until the end of his life, the artist did not betray himself, and his personal life position was an example of stoicism. The peak of his creative activity came in the last years of his life. Researchers define the period from 1978 to 1993 as the most fruitful in his work with the peak of creativity in 1993. It was during this period that the artist made a radical transition from figurative compositions to abstract plasticity. Most of his works depict the urban landscapes of Minsk, and it was through landscape and architectural painting that the artist came to experiment with non-figurative representation. Despite the fact that Israel Basov stands alone in the history of Belarusian art, his painting has had a great influence on many contemporary artists.

Lived and worked in Minsk.
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