Landscape with Rokeby Venus Painting

As painting realized itself and satisfied, if not exhausted, all its formal and aesthetic aspirations by 1915 it is not possible to make more art now unless it reaches well beyond those accomplishments. The visual language is only a tool to assist and lead a mind to wonder about something that matters. The conceptual, literal and philosophical direction is the key aim at a possibility of a profound realization and poetic magic. We live in the world comprised of and described by the opposites. The good and bad, the life and death, the right and wrong, the pure and corrupt are all a part of one, two-sided coin that is the currency of truth. All those polarities, however divergent, are necessary elements of defining a complete whole, an accurate account of the nature of existence. In a visual language this juxtaposition of elements extends itself to the preposition that any image-driven artwork comprises of top and bottom, “sky” and “ground.” This applies not only to an image of a landscape but, equally, to all other visual representations including still life, figurative, portraiture, abstraction, etc. The works in this series deal with this idea on a literal, conceptual and formal level. The use of the images ranges from appropriated and classical—like Michelangelo drawing or Nike Samothrace—to objective, incidental, imagined. They’re pointedly personal, political, socio-cultural. The images are overlaid on painterly landscapes that are reduced to simplest definition of ground and sky. They are landscapes evocative of a fog at sea, quiet at night, heat of the day, a memory or a dream. In contrast, the line images over them are impatient, bold, quick. The background landscapes offer introspective calm while balancing it with a hint of something hidden, a promise of something joyful, or a hint of ominous. They are influenced by the North America’s southern coast, its air, light and space. The images described over them intercept this and violate it while introducing a narration, a story

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:70 W x 48 H x 2 D in

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