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LOT 68 Oleksandr Yanovych. “On the Field of Flanders”

Author’s technique.

Size 70×18 cm. Kyiv 2023

Oleksandr Yanovych has recently made a name for himself as an original painter and graphic artist. He has no academic art education, but is now a well-known gallery owner and artist. “The main part of being an artist is when you have something to say, or at least you want to say it. It comes from you, and that’s why academic skills can help in some ways and hinder in others. It seems to me that if you have something to say, then lack of perfection or “imperfection” is the way to something new,” the artist says. His work is now a kind of diary of the artist’s inner state, notes, an attempt to organize his world. This experience is sensual, non-verbal, and therefore the works are abstract. In them, Oleksandr is trying to say that you can get into trouble, but you can also get out of it – if you keep moving, hoping and painting.”

The title of this work refers to the poem “In the Fields of Flanders,” one of the most popular and quoted poems about war, and one of the most recognizable symbols of the memory of victims of armed conflict. В Flemish poppies in bloom
A mourning sign among the crosses
For us; and the lark among the clouds
He sends us his singing, his last gift,
It is barely audible here over the thunder of attacks.
Because we, the dead in these fields,
We who loved are now ashes,
We lived – and took the blow
In the Flemish fields.
Go into battle, forgetting fear,
We have lost the light, so
It’s up to you to lift this burden!
If the fire of faith is extinguished
Our dream will dissipate like a poppy,
In the fields of the Flemish…