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Nataliya BagatskayaThe Cat Read the Emails First2024
2024
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This painting captures a calm yet enigmatic moment: a woman sits at a table with a laptop, accompanied by a black cat with piercing yellow eyes. Their tranquility contrasts with the vivid red wall behind them, which adds depth and a touch of mystery. A painting on the wall, depicting a figure in a rainy landscape, enhances the melancholic mood. The scene suggests harmony between the woman and the cat, but also contains an undercurrent of tension—like a paused moment from daily life, filled with silent meanings.
Her expression is calm but introspective, as if she has just discovered something fascinating on her screen—or maybe she’s simply wondering what to make for dinner. A small bouquet of flowers in a blue vase adds freshness, softening the intense red and green tones.
For me, this work symbolizes the quiet corners of the digital world where we can retreat with our thoughts—and a cat. It's a scene that invites everyone to find a bit of themselves in it: a fragment of the everyday, a dream, a quiet mystery.
Name: Natalia Bagatska. Born: 1967, Horodyshche, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv. She graduated from the University of Technology and Design in "clothing design" specialty. Profession: artist. Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Specialization: acrylic painting. Style: hyperrealism, photorealism, contemporary realism. Historical techniques of oil painting, embodied in acrylic paints. Subjects: Still lifes, nature, environment, people. Has more than 30 group and 4 personal exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. The works are presented in various printed publications, in particular "Kyiv in art", Italian magazine "Hyperrealism", "Artbox Project Basel. Miami" Artbox Project Barcelona 2.0, Switzerland, online magazines "ArtBaazar", as well as special projects "365 Days After" (international), "Women in Art", "Hryvnia Art" (Ukraine), etc. The works are part of the Museum's collection prominent figures of Ukrainian culture in Kyiv and the Korsak Museum of Modern Art in Lutsk.
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