Born 1967. Painting.
The pandemic has greatly influenced my creativity. I radically changed my style in painting.
Nataliya Bagatskaya
I really want the pandemic to end and artists from all over the world to be able to travel with exhibitions everywhere, and collectors and simply art lovers could visit its, wherever they are exhibited.
The artists have already really missed the live communication near each other’s artworks, and not only on the Internet, as it is now …
The pandemic has greatly influenced my creativity. I radically changed my style in painting. Thanks to forced isolation, I learned to see beauty in simple everyday things that surround us, present in our everyday life. Now I capture on canvases the moments that everyone has in life, and I return them to people in the form of their own pleasant experiences.
This is a painting from a series of hyperrealistic artworks “Just Simple Things” about everyday things around us, which we often do not pay attention to, but which have firmly entered our lives. This picture captures the moment of a freshly drunk cup of coffee and a smoked cigarette.
On a warm summer day in September, you walked along a city street. Not a big cafe, a couple of tables on the sidewalk. Everyone pleases: the sun through the foliage, the silence and comfort of the old city. You sat down for coffee… And just thanks. Thanks to the barista, thanks to the waiter, thanks to the universe for the opportunity to be …
In this work alone, it took more than 40,000 strokes on the background, which took 20 hours of meditative concentration.
Art project #365daysafter