At first glance, at once on the entire painting, you see a riot of colors inhereted from the Canadian autumn nature – gold and crimson of maples, piercing blue of sky high, clear to bright white colors of autumn air.
Surprisingly juicy and clearly transmitted colors – the magic has penetrated into the nature, painted the world in magic colors, as if it has identified a matter primarily hidden from a passing glance.
I was attracted by this picture’s counterpoint – under the first visible sense there is hidden another secret that is revealed only after steadfast look.
On the left there is a brown shadow of the tree trunk that has lost leaves, and its trunk is now shamelessly naked. Strange, but no any other tree trunc is depicted in this picture. Involuntarily you wonder what the symbolic meaning invested in it by the author. He tells us that autumn – a time to find your leverage point, a time to rethink and reassess on the verge of imminent winter.
Gradually, peering into this masterpiece, suddenly you stop your eyes on the strange black spots, so vividly and unashamedly seated in the foreground. They seemed to grin in the face, greasy, like leeches, thick and darkly bright, riveting , so that eventually all bright and cheery paint go into the background. What’s this? Premonition of decay? Black thoughts about the inevitability of death and oblivion? Unpleasant memories of the recent visit to leech therapist?
In the picture the artist has depicted his longing for outgoing beauty attachment to what must inevitably disappear and dissolve in the universe.
The author in this work remained true to himself: in his encrypted message using multiplicity of plans and convex depth he gave us a basic thought of his work : brightness and multicolor paints – just background, a distant prospect . Black pain destruction – that is always on foreground. Memento mori! This is what we must not forget.
Looking at this picture, I want to sit in front of blazing fireplace with a good portion of whiskey, drink hard and long look at and live fire tives.
Alexandra U, Ottawa.
Size 18″x24″
