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VLADIMIR KUSH
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Vladimir Kush
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Love has long been associated with the private garden, protected from view by trees or mountains. It is the concept of the Garden of Eden, connected with the images of Adam and Eve in the Christian culture … Shiva and Parvati, in India ... The dominant blue colors of the painting symbolize the sky, infinity, and a peaceful and spiritual life. The blue petals resemble feathers, which are associated with the image of the "Blue Bird” that brings happiness and good fortune, according to many world cultures. The title of the painting relates to Ernest Hemingway's famous novel, "Across the River and into the Trees," released in 1950. The book tells of the last love of Colonel Richard Cantwell. Like many other works of the writer, the novel includes many autobiographical episodes and stories.
Moving apart and coming together, two blades of a pair of scissors are the symbol of the union of a man and a woman, now meeting in love, now parting in quarrel. One of the characters of the comedy, “Merry Wives of Windsor,” by Shakespeare says, “I will marry her, sir, at your request; but if there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another; I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt: but if you say, ‘Marry her,’ I will marry her; that I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely.” (Act I, Scene i.) This pendulum of feelings can develop into a furious dance of a steel pair, leaving behind them stacks of cut love letters.
11" x 14" The Book is a symbol of divine revelation. On the XI century Greek mosaic, the Christ is represented, holding in his hands the Bible. As asserts Jorge Luis Borges in Letters of God, any book is a ramified labyrinth where it is always possible to encounter the Book of Books. Translucent, nacreous colors emphasize the virgin purity of Mary, holding baby Jesus. The wings of the butterfly behind her personify the soul, aspiring to the blue skies.
30.5" x 38" Hawaii is a special destination in the artist’s journey. It is his “promised land,” his mooring “haven.” It was here that his palette gained purity and illumination and his childhood dreams came true. Hawaii and whales are inseparable. The whale substantiates the ancient myth about the existence of the giant fish in the seas, the Leviathan. Before there were humans on the planet, sea life flourished and water fountains spewed above the surface of the ancient world’s waters. Whales, surfacing on the ocean, appear as if they are emerging from our subconscious mind. Their leaps above the water always evoke surprise and delight.
14" x 11"
The eternal love of a man towards a woman is the game of the magnificent rose and enigmatic daisy in the winter evening. The Rose is a symbol of romantic love and the heart. The spiral twist of its petals represents the energy of both masculine and feminine origin, the Yin and the Yang. The candle is symbolic of the lonely trembling human soul, thirsty for love. The world of the painting is divided into two spaces by the window. The outside space is painted in cooler tones, while the interior reflects the warmth of the living space. The “key moment” here is the game, “He comes to me, he comes to me not.” Only in the first case will they reunite for the waiting rose! This is why waiting is so anxious.