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.
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