Sirens Art Modern Woman Nude, Bird Woman, canvas, oil - Garden guards

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Dasha Pogodina
Sirens Art Modern Woman Nude, Bird Woman, canvas, oil - Garden guards
2023

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK The "Garden Guardians" presents a harmonious blend of human grace and natural beauty. In this canvas, the artist explores the symbiosis between the feminine form and avian allure, depicted by the seamless transformation of a woman into a bird. Soft, earthy tones dominate the palette, with subtle shades of red and ochre that breathe life into the figure, highlighting her connection to the earth. Delicate lines and gentle curves are caressed by an array of greens, symbolizing the lushness of the garden she inhabits. This piece captures a moment of introspection, where the subject cradles an apple, a nod perhaps to the mythic gardens of old. The use of oil allows for rich, deep colors that give the painting a dream-like quality, while the fluidity of the brushwork adds to the ethereal atmosphere. The juxtaposition of the checkered foreground against the organic shapes of the foliage creates a dance between order and growth, reflecting the eternal cycle of nature. This artwork invites viewers to ponder the guardianship we hold over nature and the innate kinship we share with all living things. Inner Garden Series. Daria explores the possibility of self-identification of a person from fragments of cultures and concepts, her works actualize the thirst for the integrity of the individual in the ever-changing cycle of ideas and meanings. The artist asks about the possibility of being an integral person in the metamodern era, characterized by oscillation between polar concepts and rethinking of fundamental ideas of the past. Her work is an inner response to the question of what integrality is and whether there is a need to strive for certain ideals. Her work is also an external response to the totalitarian concepts that still exist in society. Concepts that are imposed from above require a false integrity, namely a certain ideology, and persecute everything that goes beyond these concepts. Born at the crossroads of Ukrainian and Russian cultures during the collapse of the Soviet Union, Daria manifests the norm of fragmentation as the norm, replacing the demands of integrity with the idea of accepting otherness as unconditional beauty. Her characters build their own world in which culture has not become a dictatorship - the world that Daria considers her home. Here is what Daria herself says about her works I draw hybrid creatures and symbols of an anthropomorphic world because I feel like a hybrid of cultures and identities. I desire wholeness, I love to see it in others, but I feel fragmented in myself. My paintings are my way of coming to terms with my own fragmented identity, and my way of showing that the beautiful does not always have to fit into an already existing framework.

Creator:
Dasha Pogodina (1992, Ukrainian)
Creation Year:
2023
Dimensions:
Height: 35.44 in (90 cm)Width: 24.81 in (63 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
Medium:
Oil,Canvas
Movement & Style:
Impressionist
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Zofingen, CH
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2203211703992

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Dasha Pogodina Ukrainian artist, based in Switzerland. Paintings are in private collections in the USA, South Korea, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, and Switzerland. Exhibitions 2022 Solo Exhibition Stärke und Verletzlichkeit / Escape Vide - Thun, Switzerland 2022 Group exhibitions In Ukraine / ZRC - Ljubljana, Slovenia 2018 Group exhibitions Room of my Minds, Ukraine 2017 Group exhibitions Garden as an Art, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Group exhibitions Gift of Volhvs Severodonetsk, Ukraine 2013 Group exhibitions Fragment of Life, Luhansk, Ukraine 2012 Collaborate Project Light of Hearts, Luhansk Ukraine Dasha Pogodina about her art New sexuality and personal integrity - are the basic areas of search in my artistic practice. In my practice, I problematize the ideal of the metamodern world with its total moderation and the desire to return to high ideals and values. As an artist, I concentrate on the nature of the corporeal, I perceive the body as a membrane reflecting me into this world and communicating the world to me. In search of answers, I enter into dialogue with the body-sensory lexicon of Kiki Smith and Paula Modersohn Becker and also find support in the sublime physicality of the early Gothic of the 13th century from Giotto, unencumbered by the tension of formal anatomy. My works are filled with color, and ethnic decoration and are illustrative at the same time. This turns my paintings into light, at first glance, stories, which, however, do not call the viewer to cold contemplation, but, on the contrary, open up the opportunity to safely return to their secret “I”. I use the space of naive archetypal images, creating a safe haven from aggressive modernity, with the opportunity to dive into the psychological depths of my own worldview. I build into my paintings the mechanics of oscillation of naivety and mockery, trust and cynicism, chastity and debauchery, strength and kindness, as a manifesto of courage to be vulnerable and herbivorous in a world where food chains still exist.