Flowers

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: private collection.

The usual epithets “beautiful” or “tender” are least suited to the flowers depicted here. The strange bouquet painted in intensive pasty strokes and dark colours makes you feel that the plants are grimacing, expressing incredible melancholy and tragic emptiness in anticipation of their death. The composition contains recognizable flowers – poppies, daffodils and roses, but their colour is unnatural, aggravated by the alarming abstract background. The world of the subconsciousness of the author, who puts his meanings in the plot of the still life, comes to the fore.