Fine art expert / Dashkova Marina

Dashkova Marina
St.Petersburg, Russia

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Dashkova Marina

Graduated St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after IE Repin, Department History and theory of arts.
Member of the Russian union of artists (department History and theory of arts).
Member of the International Association of Art critic.

Golden girl. Levina Vera

The work represents a combination of minimalistic still life in the foreground, consisting of few objects that V. Levina depicts in generalized manner, using expressive graphics and single colour range, and a slightly planar figure of a girl in the background painted down to her knees, with a fluttering mop of luxuriant brown hair that mix as if in a gust of invisible wind with the autumn leaves of the lofty bouquet. The colour range is drawn up on combination of two basic perceptions, with brown tones emphasizing and underlining the luminous yellow, golden background. Generalization of the background and still life details as well as the girl’s silhouette contrast with almost unshaded strokes and details that are finely and meticulously worked out by the painter. The canvas is full of fine symbolism of color, subtle rhythm of lines that in whole create a laconic and expressive image of union of man and nature, of their indissoluble beauty. “Golden”, painted by the young artist, indicates her search for modern pictorial language and her own ways of expressiveness.

15.02.2010
Between the rains. Proshkin Vladimir

V.V. Proshkin’s work “Between the rains” reflects creative intentions of the artist, who belongs to the elder generation of Leningrad-St. Petersburg painters. Landscapist by vocation, he devoted his canvas to the portrayal of the subtlest state of nature, almost impossible to catch in our bustling everyday life. Listening attentively to the silence of the empty woods and shores, of water and the lofty sky, author paints the “after rain”, that seems to dissolve its moisture in the countryside, shrouding it with brief and mysterious instability. The river portrayed in the foreground is penetrated with reflections of light momentary clouds, while in the background the artist makes his waters dark, as if they are taking away the past. The richness of blue corresponds harmoniously with powerful spots of pink – like reflecting the sun that has briefly peeped out – with accents of white, ochre, gray and green, that create a versatile but in whole light and harmonious image of nature. Amazing freedom in portraying by means of art the mentioned natural phenomena – air, moisture and fullness of light – evidence the author’s genuine craftsmanship and make this works one of the samples of landscape painting of the late 20th – early 21st centuries.

14.02.2010