A.S.Shopin, "Portrait of a woman"
 

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Anatoly S. Shopin, portrait of his wife, 74 x 55 cm, oil on canvas /oil, 1979


Shopin Anatoly S. (b. 1941) - Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, sculptor, photographer. Born in s.Anatolievka, Mykolayiv region. He graduated from the Leningrad Art-Industrial School. Mukhina (1970). Teachers at the specialty - Savina, A. Rublev. Works in the field of monumental and decorative art. Major works: stained glass - "Boat" (1975), "History of Aviation" (1979), "Pretty Woman" (1984), "Rider" (1999). NSHU member (1983). Lives and works in Odessa. The former Soviet Union Shopin considered one of the most brilliant artists.

The eyes are large and bulging, elongated and narrow ... but the crystal keeps memory millennia, and they keep the spirit of the abyss. And look at the tragic features of the deity, which is undergoing human misery in the guise of men, women, children, you and me - death. This was truly an epic work of Anatoly Shopin. Human life is for him - boundless moment, carrying a miracle, step by step, bring it to the last great day

"Orgiastic frenzy in wine
It is the whole world laughing, rocking;
But in sober and peaceful silence
Well sometimes it madness breathing ...
It is silent in the branches navisnuvshih
And guarding the cave greedy. "
Fyodor Sologub

This state Vyacheslav Ivanov called "Dion siystvom" or "going out of time and immersion in the timeless. Before the mask placed on the face of the dead, and protect their image in the shades: Dionysus alive taught to wear masks and lose its shape. In a nimbus cloud and close to the people of the Divine! ".

Spirit Shopin all turned to the future, he is all the time in prison. But his powerful soul, almost crushed by the burden of understanding that nothing is new under the sun, vospryanuv superhuman effort of will, and thanksgiving hymn ends inexorable fate.

Recent works of "Comfort", "Birds of the Virgin", "Jesus and the sailor" as if woven of ideal molecules of the original substance. As under the microscope, we not only see, but also feel like pulsing blood in the capillaries of the body eternally alive. This precious vessel Shopin fills myrrh and wine. But sometimes bitter cup to the brim preserver! Bowl of knowledge and ways.

Dionysian mystery of life continues. Carrying the symbol as a sign or mark. In the words of Simeon, the young child Jesus "sign of contradiction", "sign spoken against." This often creates works Shopin inversion. Return to Eden. But women, braids entwined snakes - not Eva, duplicated vivid imagination of the artist. A sphinx. For the discovery of his secret he would demand no less - life. So do not try to see through the eyes of God - that is, eyed beauty. This is the most dangerous trap laid by Providence. "So it is - said Faust blinded sunrise - when yearning hope, reaching its highest goal aspirations, sees the gate performance, wide open: flaming excess comes out of the depths of the eternal, and we are amazed ... We oplamenyaet sea of ​​fire! Love it, hate it that we embrace flaming, just monstrous in changes of pain and joy? - So that we again potuplyaem eyes to the ground, looking for a baby-blanket abbr ... "
Faust turned away from the sun shone ...
Who's next?
Dionysian heavy fire while Shopin neugasim, and he sees the truth at the Crossroads theomachy. But like a true artist can not fool brush.
His angels - more and more blue sky above and delicate golden wings ...

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