Oksana Cherkas

A man coming into this world reveals a lot of interesting things in it: early foggy morning with dew on a meadow, hot summer day, snow-covered fields. A whole universe is composed of people, their faces, relationships, and the things created by human hands so cleverly and skillfully.
All that for ages was appeared to be depicted on the artists’ paintings. But what is beyond all this world diversity? Whether is that its essence? Where is this essence and how does it look? Does it allow a direct touch?
The search of answers to these questions marked the birth of such a phenomenon in painting, as the abstract art. The abstract art of XX century became a quintessence of inquiries and philosophical quests of mankind over several last centuries. The artistic methods developed in an abstract painting have proved to be extremely interesting and fruitful for a modern art. Abstract art in XX century became the point of contact where the debates about connection between a meaning and an image met. Besides, as a method the abstraction always verges on a cult and appears on a junction of art and philosophical cogitations. Its base always oscillates between the extremes of a rebellion and a restoration of rigid spiritual discipline of a spirit, between an innovation and a return to the Middle Ages and a primeval conciliarism, between an abstract expressionism and a return to the reality.
The abstract painting by Oksana Cherkas carries on the tradition of one of the most expressive branches of this art, namely, the Russian abstract art. Its distinguishing capacity is the interior philosophical fullness, the subtle connection with a history and practice of the Russian mystical experience. Eventually, a man is a being whose eyes are directed upward and he tries to advance at least on a step along the emotional and spiritual way passed by mankind.