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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 27.6 W x 35.4 H x 0.8 D in
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A picturesque portrait representing a combination of two famous images - engraving by Vasily Mate (1899) depicting Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and photograph of Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley. By artist’s opinion, these two cult heroes of different times and countries have a lot of common - as an obvious external similarity, as well as a common creative message - love to people, cosmopolitanism. Pushkin often remembered his African roots, and once he wrote in the “Eugene Onegin”: “It’s time to leave the boring shore / of the unpleasant nature / And in the midday swell, / under my African sky, / To feel sad about that gloomy Russia ... ”:) Spiritually, Pushkin and Marley are people of the same level and value. They go far beyond their epochs. That’s why they were able to create universal works. Pushkin is not only the author of many poems, novels and short stories; in his work he created a kind of standard of the Russian language. Marley is the author of classic reggae songs which also will never become obsolete and go out of date. These are universals and “people of the world” who asserted the ideals of freedom, equality, creativity and spiritual development in their lives. “Not for a greed, not for a battle, / We were born for an inspiration ...” - “One love, one heart. “Comrade, believe: it will rise, / The star of captivating happiness, / Russia will wake up from sleep, / And on the wreckage of autocracy / one write our names!” - “Get up, stand up: don’t give up the fight! / Most people think, / Take away everything, / Take away everything. / But if you know what life is worth, you will look for your life on earth: ) – It seems as if one person wrote all this. Marley fought not just for the freedom of the black people. It was a struggle for a universal human brotherhood. Freedom fiils all the lyrics of Pushkin - it is felt not only in the themes, but also in the very musicality and breadth of his syllable. It seems to me they were like each other. It’s wonderful, but these poetic lines have exactly the same sense.
Original Created:2018
Subjects:Celebrity
Materials:Canvas
Styles:FigurativePortraiturePop Art
Mediums:Acrylic
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:27.6 W x 35.4 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:Russia.
Customs:Shipments from Russia may experience delays due to country's regulations for exporting valuable artworks.
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MILA ARBUZOVA Mila Arbuzova was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia in 1973. Having graduated from Saint-Petersburg's University of Humanities and Social Sciences, she worked as a journalist at the different art and cultural magazines. At the same time she began her own artist's experiments. Mila Arbuzova spent her childhood in the downtown of Saint Petersburg. Her family lived in a block of flats in Grazhdanskaya Street where, according to Dostoevsky's famous novel "Crime and Punishment", the old female moneylender killed by Rodion Raskolnikov used to live. In Soviet times guides often showed foreigners the place where the legendary murder occurred. Maybe this location of the native house made an influence on the future artist. The art work of Mila Arbuzova is essentially "Saint-Petersburg's": lyrical, strict, sometimes - tragicomocal, philosophical, serious and absurdist in the same moment. It includes a wide range of subjects: the sarcastic sketches in the spirit of "social art" as well as the magical  fantastic pictures together with free compositions combining parts of realistic images in a surrealistic manner. Contemporary Russian Art despite its visual diversity tends to simplify so that its painting mainstream is becoming more and more schematic and conditional due to both accelerated tempo of modern life along with its formalization and current art market conjuncture. In contrast to this tendency works of other Russian artists tend to re-establish classical painting culture as independent elitist art form which can be appreciated only by the narrow circle of fans and art hedonists of special kind. Mila Arbuzova's paintings combine the realistic painting's techniques (including attention to details, subtle color nuances, harmonious composition solutions) with actual social issues, absurd sense of humor and lyricism. All these features traditionally characterize art of St. Petersburg. In her paintings the principles of both figurative and abstract art are incarnated. Abstraction, however, does not play a merely decorative role: you can be sure that it is integrated into the plot. All Arbuzova's work deal with a few major themes: politics, beach, portrait, sport and dance. Also Mila Arbuzova is an author and inspirer of the international women's art project "BIOWOMAN".
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