Painting titled "The Watcher. Metaco…" by Natalia Kutova, Original Artwork, Acrylic

The Watcher. Metacognition. (2019) Painting by Natalia Kutova

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

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Dimensions Height 20in, Width 16in
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Categories Paintings under $1,000 Abstract

This picture was created by the artist Natalia Kutova in August 2019, acrylic, 16 x 20 in. The title of the picture is "The Watcher. Metacognition". The picture was inspired by the next two quotes. The first one is the Da Vinci’s phrase: “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself”. And the second quote belongs to the American artist Jimmy Dean: “I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination”. These two quotes inspired the creation of this picture, the main idea of which is: “One of the most sophisticated skill of the mastery of oneself is a metacognitive skill to “think about thinking”. People usually are not really aware of their thoughts, allowing them to jump from one topic to another unknowingly. Therefore, I rephrased the Jimmy Dean’s quote:“We can't change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust sails of our thoughts to always reach our destination”. To direct our thoughts to enable us to reach our goals and dreams, we need always to keep our inner mental watcher on to control our mind monologue, and to think what we are thinking about. In other words, we need to be metacognitive!"

Painting "The Watcher. Metacognition", 2019, acrylic, canvas, 20 x 16 in.(The picture looks different depending on the light level/angle).

Natalia Kutova

United States

Natalia Kutova is a self-taught artist living in San Diego, CA. She was born and raised in Ukraine and came to the USA in 2006 as a Fulbright scholar. Natalia is a person with many interests. She earned her B.A. in Music, M.A. in Linguistic, and Ph.D. in Education, wrote several books, and participated in numerous conferences all over the world. But, she has never painted. Never, until 2017, when she visited Sausalito, a charming town just across the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and saw heavy textural impasto paintings in one of the town art salons. Natalia was impressed. It was like an insight with a clear message that she also wants to paint like that. Then Natalia started to paint. Her passion in painting became so strong that she decided to quit her successful teaching career to devote all her time to painting. Now Natalia Kutova works in her studio in San Diego, CA as a full-time artist. Her message to the world is: "Never2Late”. She hopes that her experience in painting will be an inspirational message to everybody that it is never too late, no matter how old you are, to be whom you want to be, to get started on a new path to success, and to live your dreams.

Natalia works primarily with a palette knife and acrylic paint. The main subject of her paintings is flowers and trees which are extrapolated from the reality and reconceptualized in her painting to the level of visual metaphors expressing a certain meaning. That meaning sometimes is more explicit, sometimes less, deliberately encouraging the viewer’s free interpretation and letting each viewer to have a different personal experience in perception of her artworks.