Doctor and Artist: BelSU exhibits digital paintings by Felix Pyatakovich

The exhibition Fractal Palette features seven series: stochastic monotypes, fractal watercolors, winter Antarctic landscape, northern lights, sketches of palm trees, Crimean landscapes, fantasy, as well as military-themed digital paintings created by a Doctor of Medical Sciences and Professor of the BelSU Medical Institute Felix Pyatakovich.

In 2024, it has been ten years since the university first exhibited his paintings.

On behalf of BelSU Rector Evgeniya Karlovskaya, the artist and the exhibition guests were greeted by Vice-rector Dmitry Krupkin. According to him, Felix Pyatakovich is a perfect role model as a person, a constant seeker, always learning new things. Professor’s extraordinary passion for digital painting – the art not as easy to master as it might seem at first glance – did not start and his young age, but appeared quite recently, a bit more than ten years ago. Nowadays more and more people understand the importance of having a hobby at any age.

The artist gave a tour around his paintings, telling the guests details about each work. He emphasized that a fractal image was comparable to a complex structure of a snowflake, and some images had been quite difficult to obtain. For example, the so-called stochastic monotypes – the images resembling animals, birds and people – are extremely rare. The artist does not only obtain such digital images but uses them as fragments for paintings with more complex scenes.

‘It might seem that these are primitive images, but in fact, each work took many hours of work, these are complex mathematical calculations, using a software, and forecasting the result. Sometimes you get completely unexpected images of a surprising beauty and unpredictability,’ shared professor Pyatakovich.

For his paintings, the artist chooses very bright colours. When asked why, he explains that saturation and intensity are what he always lacked in colours that surrounded him as a child and a young man. The future doctor and artist was born and grew up in the Tomsk region of Russia. There, colour palette of the nature does not boast lots of bold hues, and winters bring severe frosts. The short, but intense and colourful summer made the future scientist more sensitive and appreciative of colours and emotions.

It should be noted that fractal geometry made the basis of the biocontrolled method of correcting the emotional state of a person developed by Felix Pyatakovich. Using the patient's pulse and computer processing, the method allows for receiving several images: fractal trees, which, depending on the psychological state of a person, is of different shapes and colours.