After finishing her studies in Moscow, Tsybikova resettled in Ulan-Ude. In 1982 she was offered to decorate the foyer of the Buryat Drama Theater, wherein she created the magnificent fresco “On the Land of Geser”. Unfortunately, the monumental dimension of her artistic activity faded away due to the lack of new orders for murals. Instead, she mastered the arts of making tapestries and bronze miniature sculpture, and came up with ‘tablets’— her personal genre of watercolor painted wooden panels, remarkable because of free soaring of fantasy and harmonious coloring. Finally, as evaluated in the terms of prevailing themes and painting techniques, Alla’s unique universe appeared. The majority of its constituents were deprived by the author of clear unambiguous certainty of their content. In that, they are similar to the masterpieces of Giorgione, the founder of ‘poesie’, a variety of paintings that is not monosemantic by definition as they aim not to tell something to the viewer, but to stir up his soul.
Tsybikova could be called the genius loci of Buryatia. However, she plays also a special part in the world art. Few artists of the late 20th century can compare with her in such a quality of her pictorial images as a simultaneous impact on the viewer of color harmony, integrity of composition and overall poetry. Therefore, the impression made by her paintings does not depend on the viewer's knowledge of the regional context: they open themselves up to everyone and can be classified as a part of world cultural heritage.
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