Barong Painting

Mykhail Ukolov (Misha Shizm). He began to draw in 2016. The first steps in his art biography were posters inspired by different genres of music (punk, avant-garde, jazz, grunge, ethnic music, electronic genres). The first full-fledged paintings were painted under the influence of primitivism, abstraction, collage. Later he began to combine expressionism, cubism, suprematism, surrealism, and avant-garde in his works. The colors of the picture can be divided into 2 types: bright, saturated colors, or black and white. The main philosophy of art is not to repeat itself, to make work spontaneous, unexpected, to mix different genres and styles. Keep the viewer in suspense, surprise him every time a new work is published, or knock him down when he sees it at the exhibition. This is what drives the artist. Shizm denies mediocrity in art. The main features in his art are lack of dimensions, symmetry, proportion, very frequent mismatch of the colors of objects or characters compared to real life. The forms are flexible and smooth, and the fullness is grotesque and eerie. Plots of paintings are usually taken from real life but are transformed into magical, mystical dimensions. All this is seasoned with a touch of Gothic. Also in his works, Misha Shizm likes to use the assemblage technique. In the assemblage there is an opportunity to make the picture more voluminous, exotic, more lively. Not only draw tropical leaves but also attach a wooden parrot to the frame. To nail a rubber cobra against the sky is to mix surrealism and assemblage, thereby filling and saturating the world of the picture, while not giving an answer, but emphasizing the question - this is what the artist seeks. Shizm eschews the limits and strives for freedom of action. To achieve a larger volume, you can nail the canvas on top of another canvas, sew a part of the canvas with foam rubber inside to the picture. Using various objects: artificial flowers, plastic fruits, parts of dolls, animal models, thereby complementing the painting with material images that you can touch.