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Video: Picturesque fantasies of the Belarusian artist-storyteller Anna Silivonchik, who is compared to Chagall
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Some connoisseurs of painting say that her work resembles the work of Marc Chagall in manner of execution, others say that it is close to the magazine graphics of the 1920s that arose during the NEP, and still others compare it with Juan Miro and Paul Clay. Well, but an ordinary spectator with no one and nothing Belarusian artist Anna Silivonchik does not compare, but simply admires her unique paintings and is sincerely surprised at her unimaginable fantasy. We also invite our reader to the fairy tale gallery in order to plunge into the world of her wonders.
The world of Anna Silivonchik's images is something amazing and fantastic, which catches the eye and does not let go until the viewer has an idea in his head that the artist tried to put into this or that creation. By the way, the dedicated audience has long been accustomed to Anna's creative manner, learned to read her paintings and sculptural compositions, by the way, like the fairy tales she composed, in which everyone finds something close to themselves.
The oil technique in which the artist works allows her to constantly experiment with texture and with bright colors, with images and with drawing the smallest details. Thanks to this, she created her own expressive live style, which is dominated by bright-sounding colors and incredibly fantastic plots.
- this is what the artist herself says about her creative research.
Indeed, in all Anna's works one can feel the improvisation, which she subordinates to her mood. An unexpectedly arisen thought, it seems to spill out onto the canvas, and that, reviving, begins to reveal itself in some image, giving birth to other new images, which often go beyond one picture space and migrate to the next. Thus, whole series of paintings are born. In the creative piggy bank of the master there are already several of them - "Children", "Fairy tales", "Dream", "Angels", "Love", "Man and Woman", etc.
These series are an endless story about a person's relationship with the world and with each other, about harmony and joy of being, about feelings and experiences and endless love in all its manifestations. Through her painting, the artist also tries to convey to her viewer that the most unattainable dreams and fantasies can become reality. Therefore, it probably attaches symbolic meaning to almost every everyday thing.
An amazing mix of various objects and images makes you smile and genuinely wonder at the incredible combination of philosophy of life, good humor and subtle irony with which the artist quietly laughs at the male half of humanity in the cycle "Man and Woman".
An incredible array of characters from fairy tales, legends and mythology of different nations - children, lovers, animal people, bird people, angel people, lions and mythological unicorns, sirens, dragons - literally inhabit the fantastically unreal world of Anna Silivonchik's paintings.
It is through them that she tries to convey to the viewer her personal reflections on simple and eternal human feelings - love, happiness, joy, friendship, devotion and fidelity. And also about the complexities of relationships, in the home, in the family, in society.
It seems that some of you have noticed that all female images on Anya's canvases, moreover, painted at different times, have her features. However, not only female, but also some images of birds, fish, cats and even inanimate objects are very reminiscent of their creator.
About the artist
Anna Silivonchik (1980) is from Gomel. A gifted girl from the first grade went to the studio of the Palace of Pioneers. Four years later, Anna ended up in Minsk, in the famous "Parnat", a boarding school for gifted children. And it was there, according to Anna herself, that she was very lucky.
- Anna remembers her years of study with gratitude. Then there were in her biography the Republican Lyceum of Arts and the State Academy of Arts in Minsk. Now Anna Silivonchik is a member of the Belarusian Union of Artists.
And she does not hide the fact that the main reference points for her distinctive artistic style were Marc Chagall's fantastic realism, folk arts and crafts, and paintings by primitivist artists of the early 20th century. And that in search of themes for her works, she often turns to very archaic layers of culture, while maintaining an obvious connection with the art of the 21st century.
The work of the young Belarusian artist Anna Silivonchik is recognizable and popular not only in the artistic environment. Her works are gladly bought by lovers of naive art for both home interiors and offices. She works quite quickly, and therefore, at each regular republican or visiting exhibition, many of her new paintings and sculptural compositions appear.
Works are in the National Museum and Museum of Modern Art (Minsk, Belarus), the funds of the Gomel Palace and Park Ensemble, the Museum of Contemporary Russian Art (Jersey City, USA), the Yelabuga State Museum-Reserve (Elabuga, Russia).
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Anna revives her fantasies not only in paintings, but also in sculptural compositions from all kinds of materials, sometimes incompatible, but amusingly assembled and decorated. The viewer is sometimes sincerely surprised not at how rich the artist's imagination is, but at how it is possible to put all the objects together to get a complete image.
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