Painting titled "Oleksandr Balbyshev…" by Oleksandr Balbyshev, Original Artwork, Oil Mounted on Wood Stretcher frame

Oleksandr Balbyshev "BOY WITH BIRDS" (2019) Painting by Oleksandr Balbyshev

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Original Artwork Painting, Oil on Canvas

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Original Artwork

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Dimensions Height 26.8in, Width 26.8in
Categories Paintings under $5,000 Figurative

Male sexuality is undoubtedly one of the most important themes in my art. I am inspired by a sensually opened mouth, a dreamy eyes, a gentle neck bend, a careless forelock, a bashful color in cheeks ... Sexuality and nature are the wild pagan forces. You can't understand the sexuality because you can't understand the nature. However, you can use it to discover the deepest and most forbidden things about yourself. And this investigation seems like the falling in a rabbit hole. You'll not get any particular things, but it will be very impressive experience. And I hope that somebody who looking at my works feels the implication to something unbelievable that cannot be banned.

Unframed painting 60 x 60 cm.

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About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Oil

Paint consisting of pigments bound with linseed oil or carnations. The traditional technique consists of superimposing layers of paint increasingly rich in oil for a solid and durable hanger.

Figurative

Figurative and colorful painting having taken the liberty of including all forms of art without border of cultural genre and geographic origin, without hierarchy of values between high and subculture.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Oleksandr Balbyshev

Ukraine

Oleksandr Balbyshev is a contemporary Ukrainian artist. The most important themes in Balbyshev’s art are male sexuality and sensuality. Artist wants the viewer to see the[...]

Oleksandr Balbyshev is a contemporary Ukrainian artist. The most important themes in Balbyshev’s art are male sexuality and sensuality. Artist wants the viewer to see the realm of ideas in faces and bodies, not only a realistic image of a human. He tries to combine in his paintings realities, as visions of worlds within worlds. They show us an image of ourselves and also hint that there is more to us than we know.

Oleksandr Balbyshev is famous for transforming classical Soviet-era portraits of Lenin into highly decorative and chaotic works of art. Artist finds original portraits and sculptures of Lenin made in the Soviet era on flea markets and on announcements on the Internet. He paints on top of old portraits of Lenin fragments from famous paintings or drip paint on them, cut the canvases into pieces and glue them in a chaotic manner, let them paint them for children, he paints the sculptures in funny colors and glues them with various objects. As a result of this artistic gesture, the artist erases the propaganda and ideological meanings of the image, at the same time endowing it with decorative qualities. However, with all the fun of this manipulation, the artwork acquires new meanings, an antinomical combination of play and seriousness, prompting the viewer to go beyond the accepted paradigm.

Oleksandr Balbyshev was born in 1985 in Ukraine. His paintings are in private collections in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Croatia, South Africa, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, Mexico, and Japan.