Summertime 6

Summertime 6 – one-off artwork

Status:  sold

Category: painting    Subject: woman     Mediums: acrylic paints, own technique

Materials: canvas     Style: contemporary, cubism, abstract, realism

Size: 80 H x 120 W x 2,5  [cm] / 31,5 H x 47,2 W x 1 [in]    Year: 2018

 Painting Summertime 6

Summertime 6 is a one-off painting combining monochrome colors with summer orange and winter purple. Painted on canvas using own technique with the use of acrylic paints. Emotional, energizing and unique creation referring to cubist, abstract and realistic painting. There is a sunbathing girl laying on a kilim carpet made of traditional Spanish tiles. The original composition and the way of presenting the figure of a woman and the environment in which she is located. As the co-founder of Cubism once said, Pablo Picasso:

“I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things – they have to get along with one another.”

There is a well-chosen chosen color scheme and tone game so to get a sensual image in reception while maintaining an elegant and warm form. An expressive, mysterious but positively tuning message.

This high-quality acrylic painting was painted on a linen canvas with a slightly visible texture, without having to be embedded in a decorative frame, because the edges are linen, not covered with any color. Ready to hang, with a brass fixing bracket on the back.

The painting Supergirl 7 was painted by the painter graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts – Ania Luk. Signed at the front and back, with a certificate of authenticity, protected by a varnish in gloss.
Personalized hologram on the back of the linen canvas. This painting fits perfectly with modern interiors. The leading colors – gold, brown, orange, violet.

The sixth painting from the series “Summertime”. Painted in April 2018, sold in October 2019.

Inspiration

The following quote perfectly brings out the inspiration for this series of paintings:

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”

Honors, Awards

The painting was shortlisted in April 2018 for International Venice Art and Architecture Festival.

Exhibitions

The painting took part in exhibitions of contemporary art – ‘Urban summer’, organized by the US Daylighted Gallery: New York – Centric Times Square, Los Angeles. Kromatika 2019 – international exhibition curated by Cosimo Strazzeri – Italy, May 2019.

Cubism

Cubism is an early 20th century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture. In addition, some people say that it’s the most influential art movement of the 20th century.

Noteworthy in cubist artworks, objects are rather analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form. Instead of depicting objects from a single viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. The most famous painters associated with the cubism movement are especially Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.

“As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.” Josef Albers

Abstract Art

Most of all abstract art creates a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. It was caused by the need of creation a new kind of art which would encompass the fundamental changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy going through the end of the 19th.

Finally abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. Furthermore this departure from accurate representation can be slight, partial, or complete.

The precursors of abstractionism were: Wassily Kandinsky, Edward Munch.

“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. I prefer to see with closed eyes.” Josef Albers

Contemporary art

It has set on in 1945, after the II World War and lasts till today. The foundation for the contemporary art was prepared by the Dadaists, who perceived the artist as the creator of the idea. New trends were born, such as abstract expressionism (in Europe- informel), action painting, color field painting, pop-art, op art, conceptual painting, street art, calligraphic painting and others.

The most famous artist are: Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Francis Bacon , Victor Vasarely.

In contemporary art there isn’t one aim or a point of view. It gives a heterogeneous and ambiguous glance at the contemporary world. Furthermore, there has always been a huge tendency to experiment and search for innovative language which would be consistent with the changing reality (photomontage, collage, manifesto, object, installation, happenings, video installation, performance). Sadly, today it seems that there are virtually no aesthetic or moral bounds in artistic expression.

“In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept… But the change was not entirely good. Our gain was also a loss… There was great value in something well observed and carefully delineated. If the head and heart were often absent, there was something to be said for the presence of a hand.” R. O. Blechman

Realism

Firstly, realism in the arts is the effort to represent subject matter truly, without artificiality. Secondly, it has been prevalent in the arts at many periods. It is in large part a matter of technique and training, and the avoidance of stylization. Thirdly, realistic paintings are mostly scenes from the life of ordinary people, painted with a simplified means of expression, of peaceful palette and composition.

Finally, the realism art movement in painting began in France in the 1850s. The realism painters rejected Romanticism, which had come to dominate literature and art, with roots in the late 18th century.

The most important artist of realism came from France – Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, Honoré Daumier.

“Capturing every leaf on every tree is a time-consuming and, some would say, thankless task.”

Acrylic painting

Painting technique using acrylic paints, which have a similar characteristic to oil paints. Acrylic paintings are as durable as oil paints.

The most important practical difference between acrylic paints and oil paints is the drying time. Acrylic paints are ideal for painters using sharp and firm brush movements. Mixing acrylic is more difficult than mixing oils just because acrylics are starting to dry quickly. With oils you can mix colors for many days. Resulting in a variety of color variations on which acrylics will not give you enough time. This slow process of drying oil can be seen as an advantage for some technicians. On the other hand, this lengthens the process of image formation.

Another advantage of acrylic is that it can be rinsed with water during work, no solvent to clean brushes. When dry, the paint layer is waterproof and can quickly overlap both hides and lacquers. Acrylic paint is durable, elastic, resistant to aging, does not turn yellow, does not crumble.

All these advantages contribute to the growing popularity of this painting medium among contemporary artists.

Note: Using images of Ania Luk’s paintings can only be done with the written agreement of the artist.