The Passage Painting

The Passage, 2014. Critical Evaluation by Eliza Yacheva. This artwork has a three dimensional quality. Although the rigorous hard and solid forms, the overall feeling is lighter due to the floating objects and the two liquid spiral objects surrounding the two central figures. The lights source is arbitrarily used, which might suggest that the light is coming both from left to right (seen in the shadowing of the red objects) and perhaps form behind the figures if it can be assumed that the little dark blue patches beneath their legs are shadows and not narrow stands. The figures are both hurt in different ways, represented by the fragmentation of the white figure as it is cut in half and stressed by the use of the colour red and the gap in the chest of the yellow human. The playful conundrum here is the contrast between the title of the painting – The Passage, which would suggest the figures to be depicted as doing an act of moving, but they, on the contrary, are absolutely motionless. The form of the figures resembles the ones of the Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich in his famous Complex Presentiment: Half-Figure in a Yellow Shirt painted in the period 1928-1932. He created nonobjective compositions of elemental forms floating in white unstructured space and strove to achieve “the absolute,” the higher spiritual realitythat he called the“fourth dimension.” This analysis is written by Eliza Yacheva.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 32 H x 1 D in

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