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Visual Language
January 2015 Volume 4 No. 1
contemporary fine art
SLAV KRIVOSHIEV
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Slav Krivoshiev
Who Stole the Fairy Tales?
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Slav Krivoshiev
Who Stole the Fairy Tales?
Slav Krivoshiev is a passionate Russian artist that shares his stories vividly on canvas. Visual Language first featured his work in January of 2014 and invited him again to be a featured artist in this issue.
ate morality, questioning how we, as a society, relate to people with different beliefs and the impact our evolving modern civilization has on cultural practices and the ethical norms.
The hidden metaphors in his compositions challenge the viewer to look far beyond the surface. His colors and use of texture are metaphors in their own right. Yet as one stands before his work warily, so exactly does the allegory in the painting mimic the other reality - is it the fear one might recognize in a scene expressing a reality kept at a distance? His works intimately connect places and times of familiar stories and myths with unfamiliar visions. Upon further exploration, one will discover the figures in each painting hidden and woven into the fabric of the canvas through his active use of texture. Krivoshiev has said that his works of art evalu-
Krivoshiev’s paintings present a culture and a time far from our present reality, while bordering on the edge of days that may come ahead. In this scope of work there is a connection and continuity that is seeded from today’s world unrest. Krivoshiev associates current day with days lived two thousand years ago. His stories cross eras, glimpsing moments past and present as narratives develop in our minds while our eyes search the surface for substantial details. The paintings descend into the depths of an unknown time, a time of yesterday while reflecting the tension and unbalance in our world today.
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Above: Keeper of the Temple Left: Beyond the Banned Land
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The Cross in the Sea
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Prayer for Light
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Oriental Flowers
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“Mythological Constructivism” I define art that is created as a social myth. Constructive basis is the mythological story, a fragment or a reference to certain mythological hero, passage or detail, but considered in the problems of the modern social environment, resulting in a new mythological experience, a new reflection, the result of a new social environment, where a person lives, seeking and developing. Or the environment in which obliged to live, according to the circumstances are obviously controlled social power, but he may often monitor and control them (the circumstances), psychosocial myth of modern man. Art, which has claim, does not give the answer, and ask precise questions to the problems of modern life.
Mythological narrative transforms into an inverted form of the contemporary reality. The ethical norm of the contemporary society transforms into an inverted norm to the normative content of the myth. Mythological Constructivism uses the principle of enantiodromia – a natural law saying that any given thing will sooner or later change into its opposite. First described by Heraclitus, it later occupied a central place in Jung’s psychology and psychotherapy, explaining the interaction between the opposites as well as the development of processes in time.” Slav Krivoshiev
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Legend of Istanbul
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Turkish Coffee
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Starvation
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Women on Board II
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Metaphysical Managing General Ship
Women on Board III
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Two Angels
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