Where ART Lives Magazine Volume 3 Number 2 | Page 57

international artists Valeriy Grachov ukraine My comprehension of absolute unity of the being had formed in the youth. Later I found acknowledgement of this understanding in the philosophy of Spinoza, Dekart, Chinese Daoism, Indian Shunyata and Advaita. At the moment I position myself as an artist working in direction of romantic realism based on mountain landscape. However, it has not always been like that. My youth passed in stifling time of Breznev’s government and of course everything was prohibited except of socialistic realism. Therefore I kept away from officious art although I had never regarded myself as a dissident. I simply tried to live and work freely and independently, what was duly paid by society with non-admission to market and falling into full oblivion. I managed to get means of subsistence by performing small architectural and designing orders. No doubts that I outgrown ‘child illness of leftishness in abstractionism’ by form-quest trough years. My third and fourth solo exhibitions were almost fully abstract. The following 5 years I painted sky, ‘airplane landscapes’, when the point of view is so high and there is no Earth in the field of vision and there are only sky and play of clouds on the canvas. And later I began painting mountain landscapes. When you look at mountain range of Karakorum from a great height, the landscape falls to applicative colored pieces that look delicately like medieval gobelin during the day and stun with all colors of rainbow at the sunset light. Generally, abstractionism is an angle or point in thinking and in material incarnation. All artists know that when a small fragment saturated with colors is taken from a realistic panting and then enlarged to a size of 2x2 meters, an abstract painting appears. Digital world shows this idea congenially – just scan a square inch of a painting and then enlarge it to a full screen view. 57