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Oleksandr Balbyshev
Ukraine
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Artist highlights
- Social Media Star
- Experienced Artist
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Artwork framed.
- Dimensions : 27.8x19.9in
About this artwork
Decades after the collapse of the USSR, on the territory of the former Soviet republics, it is still possible to find a lot of artefacts imbued with the propaganda of that era. All forms of art were forcibly subordinated to the advancement of the ideology of Marxism-Leninism. Everything that did not fit into this paradigm was eradicated.
Portraits of Lenin occupy a special place among those artefacts. Moreover, the number of the leader’s image created… over the seven decades amazes.
All this was done to the detriment of the free evolution of art and has stopped its development for more than half a century.
We will never know what the art of the peoples of the USSR could look like, if it was not oppressed. We can only look at what artists in the free world were doing at this time.
Namely to this goal, a series of works by Oleksandr is subordinated, who refines the found oil portraits of Lenin of Soviet times, combining them with famous works of Western artists.
Portraits of Lenin occupy a special place among those artefacts. Moreover, the number of the leader’s image created… over the seven decades amazes.
All this was done to the detriment of the free evolution of art and has stopped its development for more than half a century.
We will never know what the art of the peoples of the USSR could look like, if it was not oppressed. We can only look at what artists in the free world were doing at this time.
Namely to this goal, a series of works by Oleksandr is subordinated, who refines the found oil portraits of Lenin of Soviet times, combining them with famous works of Western artists.
Oleksandr Balbyshev
Ukraine
Credentials
- Social Media Star
- Experienced Artist
« My art is selfish. Picturing something on my canvas, I take it into my soul. I draw only what I consider very beautiful, what I want to possess. »
Oleksandr Balbyshev is an experienced Ukrainian painter who has exhibited his work nationally. Male sexuality and sensuality are the most important themes in his art, and he uses the human figure to explore worlds within worlds. He additionally reinterprets iconic symbols of the USSR, including modified portraits of Lenin and other Soviet leaders that have since been banned in the Ukraine. Balbyshev ultimately achieves an artistic aesthetic marked by powerful pops of color, mystical surrealist elements, decorative qualities of kitsch and absurd aspects reminiscent of dadaism.
