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"Art for art's sake, with no
purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a
purpose which is not its own.
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OLEG LIPCHENKO
Original Paintings &
Drawing
Biography
Artist, architect, designer,
member of the Ukrainian Union of Artists.
Canadian artist based in Toronto. Medium: Painting, primarily in
oils and also graphic techniques.
He studied art in the art school of Poltava (Ukraine), and
architecture in Poltava's University.
He has about 30 exhibitions in Canada, Ukraine, Germany, France,
Austria, and Luxembourg. Represented in museums, private and
corporate collections, such as “Brita”, Euro Stat.
Artist's Statement
What about art? Probably I'm not an
artist - just a musician without a voice. And what I'm using for
singing - paint and canvas. It's pretty much like singing. Sing
a song when you want, when it's singing itself, when your voice
is just following the inner melody. That's an Art what I call
it. . . . . . About an inspiration. Art is very personal thing.
Artwork, being inspired of something, could touch or induce a
personal response in someone, and who knows will it be related
to the source inspiration.
When you ask me what style or the direction my paintings belong to,
it doesn't make much sense for me. It's a matter of packing and
selling and what is the label for these goods. I like such words
as Realism, Surrealism, Abstract, Inspiration and so on. But
these are only words and I'm not good to describe my artwork
somehow. That's why you'll see some interesting texts besides my
works - I used some fragments of the texts of my lovely
authors(see list) to illustrate my paintings and drawings.
My work centers on things which are usually invisible, but
play a role not less important than visual shapes and forms do,
and while most would consider my creation is anything except
realistic, I find that it is realism; as it is in its true,
original meaning - to present an existence. Anything drawn
becomes a symbol. Symbols begin to create their own patterns and
textures, developing into the painting. Vibrant colors begin to
shine through the application of many thin layers of transparent
paint.
Oleg Lipchenko
art .... for those who understand
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