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Canada
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 24 W x 30 H x 1 D in
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This painting is an abstract take on a classical motif and an homage to all the great artists who drew inspiration from it. The Three Graces are daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, and were thought of by the Greeks to represent elegance, brightness, splendor, youth, beauty and good cheer. Like in Botticelli's "Primavera", here they are depicted with their hands joined in a gentle dance. My palette owes much to the same source. Somewhat subdued and dominated by greens, pastel blues and purples, it nevertheless doesn't shy away from assertive red accents. When working on the overall design, I thought of all the gorgeous medieval and early modern stained glass windows that abound in cathedrals across Europe. Pieces of stained glass are carefully shaped and placed into a lattice which, once soldered, will hold them together. When viewed, the result is flat regions of vibrant colour separated by starkly contrasting lines; if the glass pieces are small like they tend to be in gothic rose windows, we get a breathtaking mosaic. Close your eyes. Now open them. What if I told you this festival of hue and motion is an abstract work by Fahrelnissa Zeid? In my piece, likewise, you see regions of colour held together by a lattice, but one thing they're not is flat. The paint is applied thickly and generously with a palette knife. Botticelli's Graces are delicate and exalted, stained glass windows are your portal to the transcendent, but I decidedly bring my Graces down to Earth. My Graces are pastose, rich, juicy, they have heft. That's what brightness, splendor, youth, beauty and good cheer actually look like.
Original Created:2019
Subjects:Classical mythology
Materials:Canvas
Styles:AbstractFigurative
Mediums:Oil
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:24 W x 30 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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Ships From:Canada.
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Dina Milovanov is a contemporary Canadian artist who works in the genres of figurative and abstract art. She is also a painter of custom portraits, which have received critical acclaim for their expressiveness and craftsmanship. Trained in the tradition of classical figurative painting at the San Francisco Academy of Art, in her work she combines a respect for the craft of the old masters with a conviction that realist art should not be boring. Her abstract paintings frequently touch on classical motives and explore how our cultural narratives and collective memory continue to shape our "radically modern" lives. In her figurative works, she attempts to reconcile the transience and contingency of everyday being with the idea of a portrait as a solemn look into posterity that is inherent to the form. Dina was born in Nalchik, Russia, where she passed her childhood in her grandfather’s painting studio and gained a lifelong love of oil and canvases. She moved to Toronto as an adolescent and, discouraged from a career in art as “not a real job”, graduated from the University of Ottawa with a degree in political science. Overwhelmed by a relentless urge to paint, she then ran away from “a real job” at the Prime Minister’s Privy Council Office to study fine art and launch her art career in San Francisco. She’s extremely pleased to be back home in Toronto and to be able to share her work with Canadian art lovers.
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