In the 1990s a new generation of artists emerged in Kazakhstan, who were brave, energetic and ready for risky experiments. It could not have been otherwise: it was the period of formation of a young state, and the time for new opportunities that provided the wonderful sense of freedom and openness to the world. The artists refused their predecessors' guidelines and promoted their own views and concepts. In contrast to the 1970s and 1980s, in which the European artistic trends of the 20th century were explored and adapted to some extent, the generation of the 1990s gave more consideration to their native land's arts, the national decorative and applied arts, the Turkic archaic arts and broader - to the philosophy of the East. This consideration was well reflected in this generation leaders' techniques and stylistics. And Askar Esdaulet, an artist and a sculptor, takes a special place among such leaders.
