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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 27.6 W x 37.4 H x 0.8 D in
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Do you remember how the sun plays in the foliage of autumn trees. Close your eyes and imagine a huge palette of colors. Sunlight shimmers on the trunks of pine trees. Bushes of thorn and viburnum spray on the ground. It all sounds like magic. There are many symbols and meanings in this painting. Red is a symbol of masculinity in nature. It expresses the element of Fire - just as bright, hot, warming. Blue is a symbol of the feminine principle. It means complete calmness, contentment, serenity. The use of red and blue colors symbolizes the unity and compatibility of the opposite elements - Fire and Water, which represent an active, hot masculine and passive, cold feminine principle. Kalina is a tree of the Ukrainian genus. Viburnum berries are red, which symbolizes the immortality of the family. Kalina is a symbol of life, blood, fire. Kalina symbolizes: the bush is the mother herself; flowers, berries - children. Kalina personifies Ukraine itself. A thorn bush with berries is a symbol of overcoming difficulties and trials. I wanted to tell with this picture how often we forget about our roots, about what surrounds us, about pain and tears born of war, human as part of nature. And every moment of life is important and valuable.! This painting came to me in America just from Ukraine, Kharkov, where the war is going on. My friends risked sending this to me. Thank you for your attention to my painting! If you buy my painting or print, then my fee will go to help my country - Ukraine in this terrible war that Russia started.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:27.6 W x 37.4 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Kateryna Ivonina is Ukrainian artist and she lives in the USA from the end of 2021 "In my artistic practice, I bring to life "eternal" questions, which are contextualised in current cultural circumstances and through the framework of my personal experience. I am interested in the form, figure and act of self-identification, self-consciousness of both the entire human specie and the individual thinking being. Identity is a fundamentally questionable entity, which from a correlationist, Cartesian perspective looks like an unsolvable puzzle. Therefore, as an artist, I turn to the logic of the phenomenologist and seek to discover the features of human identity in the reflection of the optics through which we look at the world of things and phenomena. The anthropomorphisation of non-human forms of life, the narrativisation of what we see, is always an experience of distortion, a sign of blind anthropocentrism. But by deconstructing this experience, we can find an answer to the question of who we are through our intentions, projections, memories and delusions. It is optics that is particularly important to me as an artist. I create my works at the level of the gaze, of perception - tangible and intangible all at once, always somewhere in between, in the midway, both corporeal and imaginary, real and illusionary, abstract and figurative. Here is the basic logic that underlies my artistic practice: nature influences the human being, their creative power and their capacity for self-consciousness. Humans in turn, being under such influence, observe and interpret nature. So the transformations and interpretations of natural forms in human creative and scientific practices are both the source and the consequence of that interaction that is embedded in our genome and that sprouts in our culture. It changes forms and contents, but remains faithful to this dual and balanced pattern of perception and influence. This structure is confusing and bewildering. But at the same time, it gives us the opportunity to examine individual facets and traits of fluid, performative identities through juxtaposition, co-configuration, correlation.I work with visual semiotics and use it as a navigation system - a complex, multilevel construction of the visible and assembled universe, as if reconstructed by humans from elements of tradition, ancestral memory, symbols, avatars and fragments of large and small narratives, from recollection and "peeking" into the future.
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