Rubelia con cravatta verde acqua (2020) Photography by Tatsiana Melnikava
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Photography,
Digital Photography
on Canvas
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Dimensions
15.8x11.8 in
Dimensions of the work alone, without framing: Height 11.8in, Width 7.9in - Framing This artwork is framed
- Categories Photographs under $1,000 Figurative Dog
In this very particular period I'm experiencing all my senses are "sharpening" even more…. I feel even more attachment to my dogs because their love is one of the few certainties I have left. The music I've been listening to all my life… it too is starting to sound different, much more incisive and meaningful…. The portrait? The only thing I really want to do is where I can best express myself.
And here it's: the collection of 20 photographic portraits I took of my adorable whippet Rubelia during the 3 most poignant years of my life (between 2020 and 2022).
I called this collection “Greyhound, Music, Portrait. Variations on the theme. "
In fact, there is a theme: the DOG (Rubelia). Then there are 19 variations: looks, shots, accessories that change giving a different "sound" to my love. In short, the variations from one portrait to another, exactly as happens in variations on a musical theme.
To each portrait I have also associated music which in my opinion will give a more complete vision to my idea of this photo, since there is nothing I create without listening (or feeling inside me) a certain piece of music. Also because I think the gaze of a dog (the main thing in my photographic portrait) is like music: you cannot describe it with words, you can only “feel” it.
This photo is printed on pictorial canvas (20x30cm). Try to observe it by listening to Scarlatti's Sonata in F Minor, K. 466 (L. 118) in the performance of Vladimir Horowitz.
The canvas is finished with the handcrafted wooden frame.
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Tatsiana Melnikava is a dog and portrait photographer. Her work is defined by innovative and forward-thinking lighting. She was born in Belarus in 1970 and spent 24 years as a pianist at the Minsk Conservatory. She traveled to Kiev (Ukraine) in 1995 to study photography at the Fotomaster school of Alex Abramov, one of the most renowned Ukrainian photographers. Leonid Levit, a brilliant portrait photographer, was also one of her mentors.
She married in 2006 and relocated to Ravenna, Italy, with her husband Giovanni and their four wonderful dogs Horowitz, Opalino, Rubelia, and Soldino. Her husband, a dog trainer, and ethologist who has written three books, assist her in her work.
She collaborates on the creation of the "Estro Armonico" collection's bijoux and accessories with images of dogs with artisans Camilla Coccari and Simona Morgagni. She runs the laboratory and shows space in Ravenna's historic center (where her little Photo Atelier is also located) with them. Several Italian breeders and cynophilists are among her clients, as are those from Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, France, Germany, Finland, and Russia.
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Nationality:
BELARUS
- Date of birth : unknown date
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary Belarusian Artists
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