Year of creation | 2021 |
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Dimensions | 80 W × 60 H × 3 D cm |
Type of art | painting |
Style | realism |
Genre | landscape |
Materials | oil, canvas |
Type of packaging | cardboard box |
This painting depicts the harsh but captivating beauty of the Russian North. The artist masterfully transports the viewer into a world filled with heavy seas and indigo and lead-hued skies. Against the backdrop of these powerful natural elements, the barely noticeable houses look tender and vulnerable, adding contrast and emotion. The elements of snow and water create a sense of infinity and eternity, emphasizing the power of nature and the smallness of man before it.
Yulia Nazar (Yuliya Nikolaevna Nazarova, 1967) is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist and curator originally from Moscow. Yulia Nazar has been engaged in artistic activities - painting, art objects, land art and performances - since 1993. Participant of more than 20 Russian and international exhibitions and biennales, including the festival of landscape objects “Archstoyanie” (Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga region), the public art project “Sleeping area. Stop School" (Moscow), the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, within which Nazar turned the Potemkin Stairs into a piano, and others. Yulia Nazar is a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, the Moscow Union of Artists. In addition, the artist is the creator and resident of the art community Glubina (Moscow), a nominee of the VII All-Russian competition in the field of contemporary visual art INNOVATION (2012), ARCHIWOOD Prize (2012), twice nominated for the Kandinsky Prize (2008 and 2009) and the Kuryokhin Prize (2011 and 2018). In her work, Yulia Nazar explores the theme of the relationship between man and nature, trying to trace new possibilities for coexistence, sustainability and healing.