The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

150х150, 2022, Canvas, acrylic paint

Do you remember this movie masterpiece by Luis Buñuel?
 Be sure, you have never seen such a table! It is riddled with wormholes which are nothing but configurations of time and space, tunnels that lead to unknown places. Or - they bring new bourgeois gourmets to the table. Their faces have long turned into masks. Like, for example, the face of an elegant gentleman in a top. He has a thousand emoji faces and a special smile for everyone. Or, the face of his attractive neighbor, who has already lost her natural appearance. What for? After all, the head of luxurious golden hair and “want-to-be-kissed” scarlet lips are enough for her career and fame! Or, a rubber ducky with a luxurious bust… 

And on the other side of the screen the audience is watching the story development with laughter and pity. Poor, poor bourgeois of our time! They are sure that this world was created for their pleasure!

DOT_ART_1

150х150, 2022, Canvas, acrylic paint

I have conceived three paintings in this style and already mentally  imagine them under the common theme. The eye as a new way of  looking at the world, art, creativity. The eye as the originating  point, giving rise and development of a further plot.

THE LADY WITH THE DOG. CHEHOV

150х150, 2020, Canvas, acrylic paint

“Freedom requires money as well. I would sit on the deck, crack wine and talk about literature, and - ladies in the evening… ”

This Chekhov's phrase is incredibly close to me. It is as ironic as he was himself! 

"Lady with a dog" tells us the story of adultery, of a holiday fling. This story is as old as our world. Since husbands do not pay enough attention to their beautiful halves, then such a result as in my picture is quite possible. Role-playing games with wine, lines of decency are blurred and totally disappear … Just look at this lady in a floor lamp instead of a headdress, in front of a mic stand! Her pose is unambiguous. And the dog's image cunningly watches the change of roles from the wall.

The piano as the stage of the role-playing game is not accidental. Chekhov and Tchaikovsky were friends. The composer often played the piano, visiting the house of Chekhov. A slight hint, a play on words… Some of us play piano, others play role playing games.

Who is who in this game is up to viewers to decide. 

Erotic dreams

150х150, 2021, Canvas, acrylic paint

Curving as a fanciful shadow, the black cat hid in an armchair. Is it a guide between dreams and reality? Is it a witness of wild passions?. 

The forgotten alarm-clock is overturned. Time stopped. Reality is behind, along with carelessly thrown shoes and the half-finished glass of wine. 

The romantic evening, that began with flowers and romantic kisses in the armchair, gives way to the night of temptations. Bright colors of passion and hot embraces, plexus of bodies and oblivion in the shade of the bedroom.

"Shh, don't wake up!" - whispers the portrait on the wall. "Don't wake up!" - flash the eyes of the cat that protects your dreams . The night goes on...

Does it happen that your animals become accidental witnesses of wild passions?)

ITALY

150х150, 2018, Canvas, acrylic paint

This country is a lively art gallery for me. You can endlessly get  inspiration there. The main point in the picture is Simonetta (“The  Birth of Venus” by Botticelli) and hands. Her hair is a symbol of  love, a loving couple plaited in Italy’s curls. Everything from her  round buttocks to the artifacts on the plate tells us that Italy is  saturated with art. You want to gorge it as much as possible, you  want to devour it with your eyes — and not just that :)

Italian cuisine is one of my most favourite. Da Vinci, Michelangelo,  Bernini, Botticelli act as cooks and their haute cuisine fascinates  and enchants.

Besides Italy is famous for winemaking. There is no Rome without  wine! Wineglass in the shape of Colosseum is a symbol of art and  taking delight in art.

USA

150х150, 2019, Canvas, acrylic paint

Campbell's soup can label and invitingly open thirsty red lips – how  did they happen to be close? The values of modern America and  therefore of all the West are together on the fridge shelf, and  liberty of speech amicably coexists with a hamburger.

The key figure of the picture and the clear caricature of the Statue  of Liberty, the namesake of the current US president who got to  the top due to the slogan «Make America great again» - Disney  character Donald Duck talks standing on the Campbell soapbox  and affirms the American dream priority.

And what is around him? We see unclear outlines and obscure  shadows of food products, goods and other things. They fall into  a shopping basket of average Americans who came just to buy  some milk to flakes. Hundreds and thousands of unnecessary  goods follow necessary ones. They form the basis of modern  American dream and make the whole world to work for its  implementation.

DOT_ART_2

150х150, 2022, Canvas, acrylic paint

I have conceived three paintings in this style and already mentally  imagine them under the common theme. The eye as a new way of  looking at the world, art, creativity. The eye as the originating  point, giving rise and development of a further plot.

FAVORITE

150х150, 2022, Canvas, acrylic paint

“As men get older, the toys get more expensive”.

Toys do not belong only to childhood. We grow up quickly. We change friends, surroundings, tastes and preferences. But our favorite toys are constant. My new work Toy Box clearly demonstrates this.

Did you love toy airplanes in your early ages? Then nowadays you can buy a super-jet or sit comfortably in a business class aircraft armchair. Toy cranes and excavators turn into your own building company, toy cars with scratches on the hood transform themselves into the trendy models of the global auto industry, and a wooden rocking horse “grows” into an elite stable. Everything finds its place in the Toy Box. And this bottle of Cola, and Barbie dolls in luxurious outfits, and stupid-looking matryoshka dolls that keep unknown secrets. Look around! Do you see it all? I am absolutely sure, because our favorite toys are constant.

Pol_lyamona

150х150, 2019, Canvas, acrylic paint

The painting was conceived as a kind of interchange with Van Gogh. He painted his “Van Gogh Chair with his Pipe”, inspired by the central image of another painting – “The Empty Chair» by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes.

I continued this chain – but certainly hasn’t completed yet. Why is the chair, seemingly the familiar detail of any interior? This is the support for a human being, the place of relaxation and finally the peculiar basis of the core values. Van Gogh «forgets» his pipe on the chair. This is a trace that he left in the world.

And finally, «The Half of mil», the symbol of the basic values in the modern society: the endless search for pleasure, hedonism – quite simply, alcohol, money and sex. They are drivers of the motives for modern people actions.

However, this is not about only contemporaries. «Simonetta» by Botticelli looks slyly at this so-called “still-life» from the wall. It seems as if she hints that a human being is always the same, both in ХХI and in the Renaissance.

Breakfast on the Grass

150х150, 2022, Canvas, acrylic paint

Why “The Luncheon on the Grass”?

Is it a tribute to the great impressionist Edouard Manet and his famous (and scandalous!) work, originally called "The Bath"? Definitely, it is. And also there is a similar idea, which was, however, expressed completely differently. Let's look at them more closely. My picture is actually a snapshot on the beach, the bright and inviting one, quite ready to get numerous likes on Instagram.

Manet portrayed naked Victorine surrounded by some men, among scattered food, bread and fruit. Is it provocative? Perhaps, yes! But this is a defiance through hint and allegory,

My heroine is offered to viewers much more plainly and openly. This is a ready-made “dish”, appetizing and inviting, hot, ready to eat - if a buyer has money! Judging by the imprint on the femina's smooth hip, she has already been chosen by some connoisseur of female beauty. Distant figures in water that also remind us about the classic "The Luncheon", are also provocative. This is a real romantic triangle and it promises even hotter passions ahead.

China

150х150, 2018, Canvas, acrylic paint  

The basis of the painting is a portrait of Mao Zedong (a Chinese politician). The bird looking into his mouth are his people who worship the system following his ideology. One of the first things that catches the eye in this image is the beak, a tribute to the Peking duck. When I travel I get so tired of the loud quacking that I could not help but capture it. My work is traditionally filled with eroticism, but I must admit that China and erotica are alas incompatible)))

Japan yes)) And China is rabbits! Well, you know what I mean ;) Rabbits make up Mao's nose. Surrounded by symbolic objects in the form of fanatics, flowers, etc. The girl in the picture is naked, but I did not intend to highlight this. It remains only to tell about a selfie. Chinese tourists have a special approach to this kind of photo – no one takes a selfie like the Chinese do.

Sveta in CENTRSVET

200х200, 2018, Canvas, acrylic paint

With the exception of works of art, light is perhaps the most valuable component of any modern interior.

The centerpiece of the work is a hand. It controls all the nuances of space, movements, actions and intentions. Even light is not an exception.

Slight movement of the switch button can lit the interior or, on the contrary, create a mysterious twilight, in which it is so pleasant to savor the taste of expensive red wine, to watch aquarium fish gliding – they seemingly had sailed from the painting of Matisse, my favourite artist… And to have a romantic conversation with a wonderful girl. We see her graceful silhouette in the foreground – it is like a line separating light and shadow. This is the main heroine of this work, a girl with the brightest name in the world – Svetlana (lightsome). She gave the name to the painting. She illuminates and inspires all around.