Three Fish
Oil · 2013 373 views
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Details
- Category
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil
- Dimensions
- 17.7 × 21.6 in
- Year
- 2013
- Edition
- Unique piece
- Framed
- No
- Signed
- Yes
These smoked herrings are ready for a good beer, they are separated from their natural area of living, from sea waters by a newspaper. The newspaper is a source of information, the information is a human product, made for consumption and a symbol of civilization, so this is a metaphor of the evolution chain beginning from the ocean life to its present state with the humans that consume information as they used to eat the other spices living around. I used a real newspaper and texture paste on canvas as base for oil painting. This technique is interesting for me as a mean to combine distorted surface light effects and collage with oil painting.
I was born and live in Moscow and I love this city. This is the reason Moscow is often the main subject in my works. My passion is the texture, so I experiment a lot with surface using materials like newspaper and texture paste. I am in constant search of beauty sparks in routine, trying to show the magic and play of light in common subjects, such as city streets or still life objects. I travel a lot, make sketches and painting. My observation is that locals may find many fresh notes after these works, this brings back the taste and beauty to common subjects they used to see every day. I consider the goal of my work to be the search of the means to depict the taste of the time flow and emotions that we get from life experience. Expositions: Central House of Artists, Moscow, Drawing Club 2014; Petrovka Art Studio, Moscow 2015, Petrovka Art Studio 2106. Works are in private collections in Canada, USA and Russia. Works are on sale at: http://www.saatchiart.com/dise Web site: www.dimasemenkov.ru Mail: dsemenkov@mail.ru
TARAS LEVKO
