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SERGEY SHAEVITCH
Flamenco Mixed Media & Acrylic on Canvas 39” x 39”
It’s hard to envision a more delightful set of paintings than
those produced by Sergey Shaevitch. The colors, lines
and shapes that occupy his abstractions intertwine among
themselves as though in a dance inspired by the music of
a smile.
You can feel this experience in Shaevitch’s 2008 painting,
“Flamenco.” Here, bright washes of light blue color merge
with the ground of the canvas to provide a backdrop for
several dark, irregular forms situated almost randomly within
the format. Both the wash and the overlying forms erupt with
spinning, swirling lines that occasionally become segments
of circles dotted with small rectangles of contrasting color.
Throughout the painting and in all of Shaevitch’s work,
the calligraphic character of the brushwork is wonderful to
behold all by itself.
Similar to Kandinsky who wrote, ‘Color is a power which
directly influences the soul,’ Shaevitch’s paintings reside
within the tradition of modern abstraction. Yet Sergey
Shaevitch brings a distinctly 21st Century sensibility to this
tradition in that its energy is more intense, its color hotter,
and its rhythm more complex. Given his background as a
native of Belarus who spent his teen years in Israel and
who now lives in Canada, his art reflects the new globalized
world that art and all of us live in today.
Websites: www.SergeyShaevitch.com
www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/Sergey_Shaevitch.aspx
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JOHN CONSTABLE (British, born in Suffolk, 1776-1837), Study of a Girl With Her Hair
Plaited, 1807, pencil on wove paper 4 3 ⁄4 x 3 3 ⁄8 inches. Museum Permanent Collection
2006.24.1. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob and Sandra Schwalb
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