Igor Melnikov

Pathway Sign

2013

Igor Melnikov, Fireflies acrylic on panel 26 x 26.25" framed 2014

Igor Melnikov, Expectation Time acrylic on panel 21.75 x 21.75" framed 2013

Igor Melnikov, Over the River acrylic on panel 31.5 x 32.5" framed 1999

Boy Thinking is part of Igor Melnikov's continuing exploration of the human emotional experience. Russian artist Igor Melnikov is one of the top artists to emerge from the post-Soviet Russian art...

Boy Dreaming is part of Igor Melnikov's continuing exploration of the human emotional experience. Russian artist Igor Melnikov is one of the top artists to emerge from the post-Soviet Russian art...

Igor Melnikov is a Russian artist whose works are included in numerous museum collections in the United States and Europe. His paintings are informed by great master painters Andrew...

Hurry up (Date priza) -naive art, made in green, red, turquoise, blue color. Elena Narkevich deliberately chooses naive art, like the famous artists Henri Rousseau and Niko Pirosmani...

Harmony (family kitchen) -naive art, made in green, red, blue, yellow collor. Elena Narkevich deliberately chooses naive art, like the famous artists Henri Rousseau and Niko Pirosmani...

Acrylic on canvas Carlos Sablòn Perez is a Cuban artist born in 1981 who lives & works in Châlons-en-Champagne, France. His talent is quickly recognized in the four corners of the C...

Acrylic & oil on canvas

Acrylic on wooden panel

after: Joseph Shuster’s Action Comics #1 Cover (1938) and #19 Burning Flesh from Wally Wood’s, Bob Powell’s, and Norm Saunders’ Mars Attacks trading cards (1962) Framed: 9h x 9w in Continuing the exploration of Superman’s role as extraterrestrial anomaly – an alien who’s also a friend, I spent time considering how important one’s actions (on a singular occasion, in sum, alone, in collaboration with others, etc.) are in determining overall “goodness” or social value. In literally his first exposure to any reader, on the cover of Action Comics #1, Superman is shown smashing a large car against a rock, while three well-dressed men run away in fear. Taken by itself the image presents a deranged, super-strong vandal. It’s only upon reading the full narrative that we understand Superman’s action to be part of a rescue mission and the men to be gangster villains. When we allow Superman to be considered as an individual, responsible for his own actions, and over a series of events, rather than one incident, we find our hero. But when I offer Superman another alien (this one up to no good), and deny any exposure to a fuller understanding of circumstance, it’s much more difficult to separate Superman’s destructive actions from those of his new companion. Better Alone Than in Bad Company...