1/9/2024 0 Comments Winter landscape konstantin![]() You might well ask who is the hunter and the hunted in Hunting the Big Owl, where a sturdy Netherlandish figure with gun in hand, strides confidently into the woods, unaware of an alarmingly large owl, poised to swoop down from a separate star-lit realm.Īngels are omnipresent, as well, in the artist’s visual universe. They cast an ominous Shadow of Destiny over one firewood-laden peasant and his dog in a print, drawn straight out of a Brueghel winter scene. Birds are ever-present companions of the human experience, creatures who move between heaven and earth, indifferent, if not downright hostile, to human desires and designs. Wanderers figure prominently in Kalynovych’s works, moving beyond familiar boundaries into unknown terrain on mysterious metaphysical quests. Land-locked ships are a recurrent theme in Kalynovych prints. The wreck of Noah’s boat lies atop a snow-covered mountain peak in the background. She stands before a stone wall where a dead bird lies on a fringed cloth, perhaps, one sent out from the ark in search of dry land. A woman resembling a seer from the Ecclesiastes cycle appears in the throes of divine inspiration. One curious example is the book plate print, Remembrance of Noah’s Ark, in the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection. John and a print series on Ecclesiastes, Kalynovych developed his own enigmatic iconography out of traditional religious symbols. In hand-made editions of The Song of Songs, Revelation of St. Kalynovych eventually discovered his true talent for etching at a Leningrad graphic arts studio and honed these skills at what is now the Ukrainian Academy of Printing in Lviv, excelling at book plate design and book illustration. Petersburg), when he was studying architecture at the city’s historic Engineering Construction Institute. His love for the great works of Western art was nurtured on visits to the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (now, St. ![]() The artist’s credo is summed up in a Bible verse, quoted in a 2007 album of his work: “That thing that has been, it is that which shall be and that which is done, is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9, KJV)īorn in the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk in 1959, Kalynovych now lives in Lugansk near Ukraine’s troubled eastern border with Russia, a city where he once attended a state school for artistically-gifted children. Kalynovych describes these richly detailed pastiche pieces as “winter dreams,” where the meanings are “murky, like a dream on a foggy winter night.” It is the rare viewer today who can read signs and symbols like the contemporaries of the Great European Masters, but Kalynovych invites us to revisit this lost visual world and try to interpret his Postmodern variations on past motifs. Even the iconic image of the artist at his easel from Johannes Vermeer’s The Allegory of Painting reappears in a bleak winter landscape. ![]() A bird flutters freely into Rembrandt’s room in a Kalynovych variation of the Dutch master’s Self Portrait Etching at the Window. In another small format print, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (in self-portrait) pulls the string on a bird trap, copied from the artist’s winter landscapes. In one book plate, the 13-year old Albrecht Durer in a famous self-portrait points through shattered ice at an equally famous Durer image of a stag beetle. With our talented oil painters, we offer 100% hand made oil paintings on various subjects and styles.Lovers of the masterworks of North European art will experience déjà vu seeing the surrealistic images of Russian-Ukrainian Artist Konstantin Kalynovych. This innovative high resolution printing technique results in durable and spectacular looking prints of the highest quality.įor just a little more than a print you can have a hand made reproduction of a painting of Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin. use only the most modern and efficient printing technology on our 100% cotton canvases 400gsm, based on the Giclée printing procedure. All 267 paintings from Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovinĭo you want to buy a giclee print on cotton canvas of this artwork from Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin ?.Museums exhibiting Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin All Artworks with main color _ and also ( _, _, _, _)Īrtworks in museum The Ashmolean Museum of Art And Archaeology (Oxford, United Kingdom) ![]()
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