Reverse – one-off artwork
Materials: canvas Style: contemporary, art deco, cubism, abstract, realism, minimalism
Painting Reverse
Reverse is an original painting, painted on canvas using own technique with the use of acrylic paints, combining a palette of warm and cold colors. This work was created from a mixture of metallic and non-metallic acrylic paints. Emotional, energizing and original creation maintained in the artist's current style. Which combines geometric abstraction with realistic painting with a splash of art deco. The theme is reverse and the main hero is African American woman. The original composition and presentation of the figure of a woman with deliberately distorted proportions of the body and the environment. As Andy Warhol, an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art, once said:
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."
The painting Reverse was painted by a painter graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts – Ania Luk. Signed on the front and back, with a certificate of authenticity, secured with a semi-matt varnish. Personalized hologram on the back of the canvas. This painting fits perfectly into modern interiors. Leading colors – copper, pistachio, brown, yellow and beige. Completed in January 2021 and sold in May 2022 to join a corporate collection one of companies from the EU.
The painting was created with the mixture of metallic and non-metallic acrylic paints, which makes colours very interesting depending on how the light falls on them, as it's presented below:
Firstly, the term "art deco" was created in 1968 by an English art historian Bevis Hillier in reference to the resurgent interest in art decoratif – characteristic trend that prevailed in the years 1909-1939, cultivating luxury and wealth. Manifested itself in many ways: in painting, graphics, fashion, jewelry, sculpture, textiles, interior design and architecture. It represented many design concepts that appeared approx. 1909 in Paris and developed over the next thirty years.
Secondly, what distinguishes art deco style is combination of modern styles with artistic finish and richness of the materials used. In addition, art deco is a pastiche of many different styles, sometimes dissonant, which are united by the desire for modernity. In fine arts, nothing better brings out the language of art deco, than paintings of Tamara Lempicka.
Moreover, art deco paintings are characterized by geometric shapes, elegant cuts and straight forward sophistication of clear cut, sleek, straight lines and boldness. Consequently, art from that period was characterized by a monumental, symmetrical (often simplified) composition with clear contours. Coloring is the predominance of bright, sometimes flashy colors. Above all artists working in this style returned to traditional themes – such as portraits, genre scenes (topics from everyday life), still life or landscapes. Most importantly, in these art deco paintings the female form is not a shy, rosy cheeked maiden lost in frills and ribbons but a bold and strong figure that is in command and control.
Certainly, art deco items are often characterized by simple shapes, usually simplified in appearance. In addition, they are decorated with geometric or stylized ornaments referring to flowers, animals and sunlight.
TOP ART DECO ARTISTS ARE:
Polish painter Tamara Lempicka (1898-1980), who spent most of her life in France and the United States
English painter – Matthew Charles Meere (1890-1961)
French painter, designer, poster artist and interior decorator – Jean Dupas (1882-1964)
French sculptor – Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)
American painter and photographer – Charles Sheeler (1883-1965)
French furniture designer and interior decorator – Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann (1879-1933)
French painter, designer of advertising posters and designer of typefaces – Cassandre, pseudonym of Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron (1901-1968)
one of the great French illustrators of the beginning of the 20th century – George Barbier (1882–1932)
American artist and graphic artist born in Germany – F. Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator and interior decorator – Bernard Boutet de Monvel (1884-1949)
French designer best known for his jewelry and works made of glass – René Jules Lalique (1860-1945)
"I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle." – Charles Sheeler
Most of all abstract art creates a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. It's a result of the need of creation a new kind of art which would encompass the fundamental changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy going through the end of the 19th.
Firstly minimalism is a style that uses pared-down design elements. Secondly it raised most strongly in 1960s and early 1970s. Thirdly it derives from the reductive features of Modernism and seems like a reaction against abstract expressionism and a bridge to post-minimalism art practices.
Finally, outstanding artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd, John McCracken, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, and Robert Morris.
Certainly, all these advantages contribute to the growing popularity of this painting medium among contemporary artists.