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Palm Sunday Painting
Canada
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 18 W x 24 H x 1 D in
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I really liked the still life set up I had from the previous painting, so I decided I'd do a larger one. There's more detail on the kettle now including the bit where the paint has chipped very artistically ?. I needed to put something in the bottom left of the painting to balance out the composition, and I had a few boiled eggs I brought for lunch so... we have some very artistic eggs here. The eggs are thematically appropriate because, as I wrote, budding willow branches in Russia traditionally substitute for palm branches for Palm Sunday, and Easter is coming. Of course, if I were a practicing Orthodox Christian, I wouldn't have brought eggs for lunch because it's still Lent and eggs are very much verboten. But let's say the willow branches foreshadow the trials and tribulations of Jesus after His entry into Jerusalem and the eggs are a promise of rebirth and resurrection. The promise of eggs, too, by the way! I imagine the end of Lent for the faithful is a cheerful event not only spiritually but also gastronomically. Dear friends in the know: do I have a theologically coherent artist statement here or what? No eggs were harmed in the making of this painting. They were eaten in the aftermath, however, in accordance with environmentally friendly zero-waste practices.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:18 W x 24 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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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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