Selfportrait. Self-irony Drawing

This was one of my first attempts at painting on stone. The soft lead, later corrected by scraping with a knife, well conveyed the texture of the stone on paper. My self-portrait is a key to understanding my work. I was inspired by the very atmosphere of my studio. The play of light and shadows, accessories and attributes of creativity around me, the characters that were born on the canvases, the imaginary grand collisions between them. And the feeling of illusory personal efforts, awareness of the fragility of the world built by the imagination of the artist, which will break every time after leaving the studio into the surrounding reality. It was a little later that I noticed the symbolism of the year when this self-portrait was erected, linking it to the title of George Orwell's novel. After all, the "evil empire" was still alive, in which I had to be born and live. And the lithographic stone on the table in front of me only absorbed a part of the mood of a young artist who, looking in the mirror, managed to see a basket of dried flowers and weeds against the light of the window behind him as a kind of crown or crown of all the artist's imagination.

Drawing:Black & White on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:4.9 W x 8 H x 0 D in

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