'Cossack' by Stanislav Plutenko

STANISLAV PLUTENKO (Russian, b.1961)

Signed and dated 1998, verso, oil on canvas,

...The artist Stanislav Plutenko plays on colour contrasts, his painting is very vigorous, illustrative and imbued through by sarcasm on the reality. In spite of the fact that the characters of his pictures are fattened and absolutely earthly ones, they are always astir - running, fluttering and flying somewhere. Having awkward bodies and unprepossessing faces they feel themselves angels and we are sympathetic towards them with their naivete. With an identical acuteness he presents images of the people and visual psychological surroundings. In each genre stage with elements of grotesque style we can find the small history of life with symbolical underlying theme.
His pictures stimulate in the spectators the scale of feelings, down to the protest, but not the indifference …"

By: Stanislav Plutenko

Year: 1998

Dimensions: Overall 32" x 28".

Price: 1500

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