I like the very Picasso-esque style of this portrait and the great contrasts cast over the face.
The way this piece both glorifies the finding of the coin as well as it seems to display worthlessness in the same picture is brilliant. The rugged, comicbook style it is painted in doubtless helps with this.
It is clear to see the western influences on some of these artists, so cut off though they may have been. This piece clearly references Mark Rothko’s works such as untitled (Brown and Gray) however inverted
I truly adored this image when I saw it, to me the painting was explaining the formatted way for politicians to speak and yet not communicate, due to the structured blocks of the quoute and the name, saying that the speakers are interchangeable. A friend told me that the image said the exact opposite due to the fact the image was painted and the blocks not completely identical. Ahh Interpretations :).
This painting is similar to the Rothko-like painting above, but obviously referencing Warhol instead. I feel it shows the impossibility of the life in the western world, seen by the artist in his oppressed, native USSR.
I have been looking at the ideas of existentialism in my coursework, one such illustration of it is the idea that when standing on a cliff one is not only afraid of falling off, but also of throwing themselves off into the oblivion below.
It seems almost incomprehensible that these people with no jobs to speak of would spend the majority of their time, doing activities such as this…
This is odd, and yet so inviting in a very Matisse sort of way.
Robin Leverton 