Volodymyr Nosan (1970-), Wedding. Bitter, 2020
Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm
Signed in the lower left corner.
Purchase from the artist.
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Volodymyr Nosan - painter, graphic artist, book illustrator. The influence of Far Eastern art and Ukrainian engraving, post-impressionism and modernism, the style of the art masters of the 1960s are noticeable in the artist's work. Nosan creates portraits, landscapes, narrative painting. The basis of his work is color, playing a structural and decorative role at the same time. Its color palette is extremely wide: from bright, warm and cold colors to almost monochromatic, "muted" works.
His works often feature seemingly banal subjects - domestic animals, local landscapes, scenes from rural life - often drawn from his own memories and experiences. However, processed under the influence of time, thought and subjected to stylistic treatments, they acquire an almost archetypal - symbolic and philosophical, sometimes social - character, as in folk painting. The artist rejects anecdotal elements, creating precise, almost allegorical compositions, with carefully considered colors. At the same time, the artist does not hesitate to evoke the drama of many life situations: loss of home, exile, displacement, escape.
In Nosan's work, we also often find female figures, still lifes - especially flowers and fruits, but also landscapes of Ukraine and other countries, observed in travels or plein air. However, as in other types of painting, observation of nature is only a starting point for the artist, which later undergoes metamorphosis under the influence of his own thoughts. Thus, the paintings become new, independent universes, full of colors and meanings.
