Elena Maslova-Levin


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Geometry of colour (August 2012 - ongoing)

At some very fundamental level, painting represents the power of color given external form by geometric structures. This tension, the geometry of colour, is linked (in my mind at least) to the basic duality of a painting as a material, mundane object vs. something from the non-material world of ideals, images, emotions. Read more...

Le Petit Prince
The taste of childhood
Two sources of light
Eugene
Folly, doctor-like, controlling skill (after William Shakespeare)
Still life with the Divine Comedy (2)
Still life with two pears
Synthesis
Awakening
Requiem
Untitled
On the brink (still life with two bottles)
A study in unseriousness (red dahlias)
A study in happiness (orange dahlias)
Here and there
Three apples and white wine

Although most of my work done after the "Nothingness" series is directly linked to poetry, yet there is this different, albeit related, formal aspect to the "after-Nothingness" evolution, which is represented in this gallery: a search for a new synthesis between colour and form, for the inner geometry of colour.