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Thank
you
for the attention
to these paintings.
Their publication
will probably supplement the rank of abstract painting that
has firmly established itself as a separate
direction in the fine arts.
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Alexander
Filichev. Russia. Artist-abstractionist. Painting since
1990. Since 1994 – personal exhibitions in Russia, Finland,
Germany. Since 2003 – a co-founder of the Center of Creative
Education in Vologda, Russia.
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Creative
Development:
I started with
water colors. First brush strokes seemed magical. When I
tried the oils, it even increased my wish to create a new
world. The final aim was to get the feeling that the picture
is breathing and sparkling. And gets the life of its own.
In abstract art
I found something that makes the air around pictures speak
and it became for me the paradox means of expression. To
my opinion, abstraction doesn`t deny realism but, on the
contrary, feeds it. Adds freshness, freedom and weightlessness
to colors and images. Abstraction (like architecture) is
visible music.
Gradually I was
getting more and more interested in painting with hands
rather than brushes. In order to get a direct ethereal contact
with the picture through the fingers. And as a result to
feel the painting expanding the space and filling it with
ozone!
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Through water, air and bright paints
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Some images
don`t
have any forms at all. For example, one of the paintings
is of dark-violet-pink color. But the thoughts with which
I was “stroking” that canvas helped to create the same feeling
as that one can get from some icons – silence and a tremulant
half-smile.
In the early
90-s I wrote an abstract essay “Much higher than the velocity
of shadow”. Each page has its rhythm and sound. .. Each
page is a painting. Rush changing of images and scenes creates
movement, flight in different directions. The book is full
of beautiful images that I have been painting. Some phrases
from the book give names to what is already created: “Blood-Sea-Sky-Circulation”,
“Through Water, Air and Bright Colors”, “The Balance of
Morning Stars and Blossomed Trees”.
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Improvisation on rose-blue
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The very names
of paintings
is energy that you get filled with while looking at the
created image. And then the picture asks: “What have you
understood in me?” It`s not an outer appearance, it`s resonance
with qualities that are reflected in names… “Against the
Current”, “Thin Fingers of Absurdity”, “Elixir for the Heart”,
“Tender Touches”.
In my abstract
art there is a connection of plants` harmonic forms
and geometrical figures that creates a direct feeling of
images. “To make invisible visible” directly.
It is always
nice to share the feelings with somebody who approaches
life without rules and conditions. There is only one rule
– penetrating radiation of ourselves – cool shadows of life.
I am giving my
flowering abstract art over to your unique perception. And
wish you fresh and truly abstract love.
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About love
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