______. like to think about what the first piece of art was like.
That it has come long before culture and science, writing, and even speech appearance.
At the moment when, perhaps, a prehistoric man, making his way through the thicket of the forest,
comes to the edge of a cliff, from the foot of which a valley stretches to the very horizon,
the sky above which is flooded with the rays of the setting sun, and the gaze of this man,
at first reflexively reacting to the “stimulus” , suddenly freezes under the hypnotic influence
of the colors spilled in the sunset sky.
Yes, the first work of art was not hand-made but it had already found its viewer, evoked emotions in him
and awakened feelings. And I like to think that this feeling was something like what will eventually be defined as "inspiration". And if this was so, then the first spectator was followed by the creator, because inspiration,
as a surge of creative energy, is impossible without the impulse to create.
And the stimulus for such metamorphoses was THE COLOR...
It is the Color,
as one of the most important components of the language of visual perception of the surrounding World;
as a way of interaction with this World and manifestation in it;
Color as a way of influencing the World - arouses my interest as an artist!
Starting my work, I often do not previously plan the composition and color palette that I will use.
On the contrary, all “rituals” are aimed at keeping the mind, calculation and analytics out of the process.
Their time will still come.
The beginning of the creation of each painting is an intuitive stage, the stage of maximum creative freedom.
At this stage, I am only the initiator of the process and the conductor of energies and states encoded in color. And the first stroke of paint left on a blank canvas is a declaration of intention to embark on a journey
into the unknown.
But art cannot be a mere accident, a “formation” spontaneously formed by chance.
Art must be grounded in the work, skill, technique and mastery of the artist applied to it.
And now the second stage of working on a painting is the use of technical skills. The task is to shape and emphasize the accents, to remove the "noise", to cut and polish what was "acquired" at the first stage of creating the painting.
But this emotionally vibrant process of my relationship with the painting ends at the moment when,
having applied the last stroke of paint to the canvas, the brush comes off the canvas.
The story of new relationships will be written between the picture and the viewer.
They will start their own dialogue and build their own emotional connection.
And the only way I want to influence this dialogue is my dream that the paintings will inspire the viewer,
and this special state will awaken in him the courage and determination to realize his own creative potential
to the maximum!