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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 39.4 W x 39.4 H x 1 D in
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I was inspired by the raging sea and the swirling clouds, all in turmoil, powerful, compelling, fascinating. Presently, a pink straight lightning pierced the sky. The Moon looked yellowish. I started in acrylics and finished covering almost all the 1 by 1 metres canvas with oils. As usual, I did this composition on fine grain linen with Maimeri Classico Italian-made oils. I LOVE the bounce of a well-stretched canvas under my brush; I savor the somewhat irregular pronounced natural weave of linen with fairly smooth fine grain – just smooth enough to take my minute detailing of plane edges with very small brushes. Linen feel and linen look are my favorites. And stretched linen canvas remains the only lightweight option for large paintings that has shown us how it will behave in the future. Most all of my canvases have wedges for re-tightening the stretch when the linen sags or waves – they are hardly ever needed, but it’s better to have them just in case, you know. I fixed hanging cords on all the four sides. I always do my own wiring of the hanging cord and I never give the job to a framer. I feel it is erotic to SCREW the self-tapper into the bar. I don’t use a ratchet screwdriver, to get the most of the SCREWING and to keep my hand fit by extra twisting ever once in a while. I use professional gold-color wire and single-hole D-eyelets in nickel and gold colors that I buy at a picture framing supply store. I fix the hanging cord on three of four sides of the stretcher; I think it is cool to give the customer more choice to hang the picture upside down or on the side. Most important, this picture is charged with energy. Energy is a tricky thing, it’s either there or it isn’t.
Oil on Canvas
One-of-a-kind Artwork
39.4 W x 39.4 H x 1 D in
Not Framed
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Iskan paints emotional geometric abstractions oil on canvas. Iskan is an abstractionist artist with a penchant for bright colors. Born into a family of schoolteachers in 1956 in Tiraspol, at that time a town in Moldavia, now the capital of breakaway Transnistria, as a kid he was exposed to a Jewish environment. He was sort of maverick at school. His mother comes from the Gansky family, a Ukrainian branch of the Polish Hańsky nobility known by the illustrious Eveline Hańska, the wife of the French writer Honoré de Balzac. His father was a Sunni Volga Tatar educated in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Iskan is a graduate interpreter and economist. Before practicing as a business consultant, he was employed at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Moscow and Bucharest. Iskan put together a small yet fine collection of pictures by Soviet anti-communist nonconformist artists. Never having studied art, unexpectedly took to painting oil on canvas in June 2015 aged 59. Iskan is a 100% self-taught artist. Artistic Statement I take sunlight and transform it into the colors of my paintings. The Sun’s energy passes into them. My artwork comes from nature. I’m inspired by the sky, the sea, the line of the horizon, by the dusks and dawns, by the curves of the mountains and of the female body. I generalize images, often reducing them to geometric shapes. I trust that the viewer recognizes them subconsciously, reading off their meanings and reconstructing the original picture in his imagination. My colors are pure and my shapes are clear. I use the best paints, only sometimes adding linseed oil; I don’t use solvents, White Spirit or other chemicals. My pictures come from nature – my only teacher. I paint like I breathe. I do it all MY way. I write my own ticket. INSPIRATION I draw inspiration primarily from beautiful views and from music. Beauty comes from seeing nature. I am inspired by the sky, the sea, the line of the horizon, by the dusks and dawns, by the curves of the mountains and of the female body. I generalize images, often reducing them to geometric shapes. I trust that the viewer recognizes them subconsciously, reading off their meanings and reconstructing the original picture in his imagination. I adore Old Masters. I develop my ideas from classics of abstraction: Poliakoff, Nicolas de Stael, Rothko. Nature keeps my colors pure and my shapes clear. My pictures come from nature – my only teacher.
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