Video: Socialist hyperrealism by Alexander Ivanov
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Outside the central part of cities, where there are no boutiques, expensive restaurants, theaters, modern art galleries and nightclubs, a completely different life goes on, calm, measured, simple. It is not much different from life in the same places two or three decades ago. It is this life that the Kharkov artist Alexander Ivanov depicts in his works, painted in the style of socialist hyperrealism.
In order to be a hyperrealist artist, you probably need to thoroughly know the subject in which you work. Indeed, in your works you need to absolutely accurately and even better than in the original, display every, even the smallest detail of this phenomenon.
For example, the hyperrealist sculptor Carole Feuerman seems to have spent a lot of time in the world of sports, namely, in the world of swimming. That's why she gets hyper-realistic "wet" sculptures. So the Kharkov artist Alexander Ivanov depicts what he knows well - the most ordinary life of Ukrainian villages and cities.
Moreover, he does it in a style very similar to the seemingly obsolete socialist realism. But recent years have shown that this artistic method is undergoing a new round. True, now in the form of kitsch. Remember at least the Soviet pin-up from Valery Barykin.
So Alexander Ivanov pays tribute to our common cultural past. But his socialist realism is strongly exaggerated, there is a lot of grotesque in it. Therefore, the work of this Kharkov artist can be characterized as socialist hyperrealism.
In the works of Alexander Ivanov, made with acrylics and oils, we can see the most ordinary moments from life. And it seems that nothing in them is embellished, nothing is shown better or worse than it is. It's just that the author has noticed precisely these moments that other people do not mark as outstanding at all. And, it turns out, completely in vain.
Indeed, even in the simplest situations, you can find elements of irony, humor, comedy, some kind of philosophical notes, beauty and sadness. You just need to take a closer look. And Alexander Ivanov knows how to do it.
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