| Summary: | Svetlana‘s Penkauskienė‘s oil painting collection „Tirpstanti riba“(„Melting bound“) consists of eight separate paintings, that covers the idea of similarity an difference of disparity in age, realized through oil painting.
Man‘s figure disappears from paintings of modern art in nowadays. Despite that man‘s figure were the most common and essential piece in paintings of old-world, nowadays it fades. Today the mainstream of modern and abstract art allows us to analyze man‘s physiologic, psychologic and philosophic aspects even without touching the substantial. That is why it is essential to unfold this problem now, when it’s so distant in nowadays and in the other hand it’s so close to our life. In my collection of paintings I try to represent the disparity in age in a different way, I try to discover the similarity and difference of young and old. The intercourse problem between young and old is not only a nowadays problem, it was relevant in all times, but nowadays in these youth-cult times, this is a matter of great importance. So it was my decision to analyze those two separate, always different and always stationary, aspects of youth and age.
Whole art work was realized through oil painting. It’s a steady and durable technique, which ensures the work to be done like it was meant to be done in a first place.
The aim of art is not the truth, - it’s beauty. Art is not a mirror of reality – it creates one. And it even doesn’t matter if this “new” reality doesn’t represent... [to full text]
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