Video: Optical Illusion Master, Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Optical illusions artistic illusion of sight, mind games, are favorite techniques that a modern Ukrainian artist often uses in his painting Oleg Shuplyak … And why go to distant lands to Germany, Great Britain or the USA to look at a human face in the drawn branches or read on the walls of a building a text that looks like randomly scattered colored strokes and specks, when the Ternopil region, where this artist lives and works, is located like this close? Oleg Shuplyak is an architect by education, but has been teaching drawing and painting for a long time, starting from school in his native village, and continuing - at the art school in the city of Berezhany. Despite the fact that the artist's portfolio contains countless traditional paintings, it is the unconventional one that attracts attention - the so-called "paintings with a double meaning", according to the author's terminology.
Working in the field of easel painting and engaging in church painting, Oleg Shuplyak still considers surrealism to be his element. It was this genre that had the greatest influence on his formation as an artist, and today elements of sura are present in almost all of the author's "non-traditional" paintings. Let's add here the elements of associative symbolism, postmodernism, abstractionism, well, how can we do without it? - realism, and we will get incredibly fascinating puzzles at the output, the very masterpiece optical illusions, paintings with a double meaning, which are masterfully painted by Oleg Shuplyak.
Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak has repeatedly participated in foreign exhibitions of contemporary painting, including in American New York, and in British Nottingham, and in other cities of the Western and Eastern countries. But in his homeland he is highly valued, inviting him with exhibitions and master classes to the galleries of modern art, moreover, since 2000, Oleg Shuplyak has become one of the members of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. You can get acquainted with the work of this author on his website.
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