Painting

Akhra’s flowers are smelling of Abkhazia. He has been living in Kyiv for years now – but they keep smelling. Of that very Abkhazia – before the war, as we remember it. Got out at Sukhumi bus station and went crazy about aromas, about colors – we simply have no such rich, deep, tannic colors.

Ahra must be dreaming of those flowers. And he paints not the flowers bought at Otradnensky market, but those from Sukhumi of his youth. He paints dreams – about being young and happy. Like Gauguin, who once sent his Tahitian dreams sailing to Europe, tired of its dullness.

His landscapes are even more magical – you just feel immersing into them. Abkhazia? Ukraine? The country where you were happy. However, there is a kind of mystery, something hidden behind the picture. Metaphysical landscapes – they have something “beyond the physics laws”.

Roman Aghasyan is a real reformer of the still life genre, he radically changed its status in the genre palette of modern painting and renewed the place of the analytical approach of figurative composition as a part of modern art. His still lifes are strong, approved on a holistic mimetic concept of painting, based on a balanced and projection-based compositional system, juicy in color and stylistically recognizable. The object in the plane of the canvas acquires not only its reproductive character, but becomes a demonstrative element of the language of painting itself. The artist's attentive attitude to the texture, material, and internal logic of the structure of the painting composition gives the works completeness, integrity, and symbolic sound. Playing with the inner geometry of the canvas, nuanced color combinations, successful juxtaposition of planes and volumes form a whimsical mosaic of the genre, bringing the composition into the realm of polysemantic interpretation of the objective world, giving the figurative composition the weight it receives not only in a reproductive manner.

I work in modern techniques with oil paints.

My drawing style is based on the classical style. In the works, I sometimes paint in the style of "alla prima", in a quick creative manner of painting (from the Italian "in one go"), in some places I write with step-by-step layers-underdrawings, then the multi-layeredness of the work is visible.

Favorite genre is landscape.

When people ask why I became an artist, I have the following question: what was I supposed to become? This is what lives in me. For me, this is another world, into which I completely immerse myself when I work.

Apollonov is Ukrainian Picasso. Just as unpredictable and as good – no matter what he does. Yesterday, it was the Crimean plein air, which took our breath away. Today – The Dancers, a la Larionov, another planet (don’t you find that Apollonov-Priduvalova couple resembles Larionov-Goncharova duet?).

The Dancers is our “Bachelorette” and all those girls with pumped lips. Primary and secondary, look, not enough of cars. Apollonov, paint a car!

The X-ray artist. Later, philosophers will come to reflect on “longreads” being no longer relevant. Indeed, those “rares” will soon be burned – see “Fahrenheit 451”. If Apollonov will survive – he will be taken to the museum.

I live in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Profession Artist. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
Material specialization: Acrylic painting
Repertoire: Objects, people, hyperrealism, photorealism, realism, semi-abstraction. Historical oil painting techniques embodied in acrylic.
Plots: Still life, nature, environment, people.
A little more about me.
I spend over 11 hours a day at my easel.
I can see at a glance whether the plot or composition will look on the canvas.
I know what global trends are, what prestigious galleries at Art Basel offer and what is trending for modern interiors.
And this is not fortune-telling. This is knowledge and experience!
Once I realized that making money on "Popular Subjects" is certainly good, but it is much more pleasant for me to give people not just beauty, but also originality, meanings, style, delight!
To create one picture, I take more than a hundred photographs in order to choose the best one.
But these efforts are more than justified by the Wow effect from the contemplation of the picture.
My first education and long practice was a fashion designer. Fashion and style is built-in. There are no exes in this case!
I myself earn and value money! And not only their own, but also their collectors. I confidently call myself a PROS in painting and constantly keep my knowledge in good shape and develop, develop, develop.
Artist's statement.
I share my surprise at nature in painting, based in large part on her experience in fashion and design. In every work I try to comprehend the world, to portray the subject more realistically than it really is. And I do not just draw a beautiful picture, but in my works I reflect. Inspired by pop culture, politics, icons and modern trends, the idea behind my work remains the same - to create simple and understandable messages delivered in a clean and visually satisfying manner. In my acrylics, I compete with the camera, trying to prove to myself that humans can compete with technology. I love hyperrealism because it's a very complex style and people like it.
I paint hyperrealism with acrylics because it's even harder than oils. Every time I start a new job, I think that it is impossible to do it. And every time at the end of the work I get pleasure - WOW I did it! ..

My art is about nature, reproduced in abstract forms. With my works, I try to show people's deep connection with the environment and meaningfully remind contemporaries of the need to cherish and preserve nature. Abstraction speaks for itself because it is what everyone wants to see. What it is about, what the artist has put in it, and the emotions behind it. Everything invested therein begins to come to life in people's perception of different experiences and habits. In this way, speaking about the general ideas of environmental protection,  I select various topics and thus activate different worldviews and memories in society.

For work, I often use slime, which is a unique material. In general, slime is a popular children's anti-stress hand toy. I added a new purpose to this viscous material, brought it to the art territory, and made it relevant with my author's technique. I also recycle paper and plastic using my special technology to create sculptures.

After all, we like to solve riddles instead of knowing the answers right away. Not only do I create paintings, but I also think about the environment and what I can potentially change. I am always looking for new artistic techniques, paying attention to plastic and paper processing and using these methods in my art. I found inspiration primarily in nature, and it is she who evokes in me those powerful reactions that make me feel ready to turn the world upside down.

My art is about encouraging people to sustainable development and protecting nature. We live in the Anthropocene, but this period should not be an ecological catastrophe. On the contrary, we can try to save land, air, and water from pollution, debris, and other human activities. Today, there are almost no landscapes left without anthropogenic impact. Civilisational garbage, an excess of electric light, and the noise of cities are everywhere. Traces and substances of industrial activities are everywhere. In my artworks, I discover alternative ways of mutually beneficial coexistence and intend to show others the importance of biological balance through natural diversity.

The night sky over Kyiv by Beliusenko is the sky where Bulgakov’s Margarita used to fly. Kyiv is the city of Viy. The enchanting city.

The pines by Beliusenko are the pines Gokusai. Kyiv Tokaido – from Darnitsa to Svyatoshino. Incredibly light, incredibly free – a couple of brushstrokes and the canvas begin to breathe. The Tao breath.

A little bit more of Crimea. How much have we drunk there, under the fabulous walls of the Genoese fortress in the Cozy-Zatyshny, where Beliusenko used to live! Streams of paint, through which emerges a rigid silhouette of the Sudak Bay – when he forms the space like a demiurge.

Demiurge also lectures on the art of the 20-21st centuries. About the art of the future. When the painting comes back again. Beliusenko has already started to pave the way.

A one-man band. An architect by training, he’s written film scripts, edited the first Ukrainian magazines on contemporary art, held Ukrainian-French meetings, built the first art objects/installations in Ukraine.

And painting, painting, painting – his passion, thirst, mania. He has been awarded numerous international prizes. One of the leading Ukrainian artists. He is looking for a purely Ukrainian dimension in the contemporary art space.

Petro Bevza: “Our task is to find a Ukrainian sector of transcendent values images, expressed in the contemporary art language.”

I embody creative ideas in painting and ceramics. I work in various painting techniques. The works are characterized by conciseness of the composition, the desire for purity of color, local planes. The free use of elements of different styles, inherent in both modernism and avant-garde, makes it possible to create new images, where the selection of painting techniques is subject to the general mood of the canvas. Realistic works are characterized by a certain abstraction from details. I am interested in tracing the transition from reality to abstraction, the different gradations of these concepts. focusing on the main sound of the picture. The use of textures makes it possible to enhance the feeling of space, to create a special shimmer that changes under different lighting. Consecutive application of paint in layers enhances the sound of color, creates the effect of depth