Oasis of pristine (2024) Peinture par Volodymyr Korolievskyi

The bright color of this painting is reminiscent of the Fauvists and Gauguin. But it is not expressive, but calmly decorative. It is indeed very hot in tropical latitudes, but the local aborigines are accustomed to this. This is their natural habitat. They live their lives here, make plans and go to the world of their ancestors. The artist tried to feel like such an African, deliberately distorting the plastic outlines of trees and other landscape elements, simplifying the anatomy of the human figure. He wanted to achieve a direct vision of the world from an African native, uncorrupted by the technocracy of civilized countries. The lack of linear perspective and balanced rationality, the sense of haste and digital precision seemed to him the only available techniques with which this effect could be achieved. And we see four people who met by chance in the jungle. They conduct a silent dialogue with each other, as if possessing the gift of telepathy. Despite the closed mouths and lack of gestures, it is clear to us what is happening between them. Primitive people have such a strong unity with nature that in their minds there is no clear framework between specific concepts, like ours. That is why, if you look closely, you can see that some of the elements of the picture are unfinished and flow into each other.
So, one of the puddles rises up, as if it were a tree trunk, the other resembles a small animal, next to the conventional female figure in the background there are strange objects: either tree trunks or statuesque snakes stand vertically.

Thèmes connexes

AfricaNativeNatureLandscapeAborigens