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Liudmila KondakovaTenderness, 20212021
2021
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Tenderness is an acrylic on canvas painting, 18 x 24" canvas size, signed ‘L Kondakova’ lower left, and framed in a custom, ornate, gold-leaf frame.
Tenderness presents the rooftop apartments of Montmartre at sunset – the rosy hues of the fading sun gently lighting the scene. A couple enjoy a romantic, candlelit moment with a bottle of wine in the uppermost window while another young woman relaxes with her cat in the apartment below.
“At times, almost any visual tour-de-force seems possible in Kondakova’s inspired repertory of images; they seem to reflect an impossibly wonderful, but still quite concrete and visible, parallel universe. The sense of time, in the modern sense, is less important than atmosphere and emotion, which colors everything she shows in such disarmingly, diligently observed detail. One is persuaded that she is, in fact, rendering quite faithfully something actually before her, yet nothing is quite as it seems to other viewers, or even to the camera’s lens.” – Professor Sam Hunter (Liudmila Kondakova – A World of Enchantment)
- Creator:Liudmila Kondakova (1956, Russian)
- Creation Year:2021
- Dimensions:Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 38.25 in (97.16 cm)
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- Condition:No prior ownership, generally excellent condition.
- Gallery Location:Greenwich, CT
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Liudmila Kondakova
Liudmila Kondakova’s artworks are rich with clarity and light, reflecting in their extraordinary draftsmanship a sense of artistic and spiritual well-being. Her meticulous attention to detail allows us to become intimately involved in the life of her paintings, often depicting well-known streets and landmarks in Paris. In the artist’s words: “To me, these streets, with their worn cobblestones and aged buildings, evoke a sense of nostalgia and romance with a touch of melancholy. It is the ideal kind of space.” Since her childhood in Russia, Liudmila Kondakova has been fascinated by traditional art, and by a sense of spirituality that transcends common existence. Her painting technique follows the tradition of medieval egg-tempera painters. Her palette—influenced by the icon painters of Byzantium and later, Russia—is both vibrant and beautiful, with colors that blend in a subtle, poetic balance. Born in Russia in 1956, Liudmila Kondakova immigrated to the United States in 1991. A graduate of the Grabar Center in Moscow, she also attended Russia’s School of Sacred Arts, the Moscow Pedagogical Institute and the Moscow Art Institute. Kondakova connects her highly trained background to her artistic expression this way: “In my art, the essence and beauty has always rested in the details.”
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