Video: Long exposure paintings. Night City Landscapes by Alexandra Pacula
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Works by a Brooklyn artist Alexandra Pakula may appear blurry, messed up photographs taken at night, with long exposures and without a tripod. And then they will seem uninteresting, well, perhaps abstractly bright. But the fact of the matter is that these are not photographs at all: Alexandra is a talented artist, and these paintings are from the series Blurry night city painted with oil paints on canvas. The artist depicts the "world of visual intoxication" in her paintings, which, in her own words, is most vividly reflected in the life of the night city, when sunlight is replaced by the lights of advertising showcases, signboards, lanterns, garlands, car headlights and windows of multi-storey buildings. The life of a big city beckons, enchants, hypnotizes, like the light of a lamp of moths and other insects. A person enters this nocturnal world - and dissolves in it, absorbed in these bright lights and flashes. During the day, this world is completely different, albeit flooded with sunlight.
The heady mood of the city at night gives the artist the opportunity to create pictures just like this: bright and abstract, without clearly outlined silhouettes, but with subconsciously understandable, familiar subjects. Sweet dizziness, enchanting mystery, alluring uncertainty - all these are filled to capacity with the landscapes of the night city, painted by Alexandra Pakula. Her work inspires and pleases the audience in the same way as the night city inspires and pleases her herself, and this cycle accompanies all her work.
You can get acquainted with this series of paintings and other works by the American artist of Polish origin Alexandra Pakula on her website.
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