Svetlana Dashian

My work. My art.

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I am very proud that my artwork Alphabet Tree dedicated to my husband's grandmother Nina Vitukevich, who would be 100 years in 2020, has found its home in the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Media in Moscow.

Alphabet Tree is to celebrate all people who work with the printed word like Nina Vitukevich who worked for almost 40 years in the publishing house Pravda. 

She is the reason for my husband's great love for reading.

How it happened

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A bale of pure snow and the best musical accompaniment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWg5ugyMjIc

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“Let a sheep or a cow into the vast, spacious meadow - that's how you need to watch them

Dogen

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Though the Russian painter Filipp Malyavin is more known for his red paintings of peasant women, I really like two of his women’s portraits, this being one of them.

Very lively and intense. 

And I really enjoy the light here - as if she stands right in front of you.

To read more about Malyavin: Wikipedia 

To take a look at his artworks: WikiArt

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This year a person important to my husband - his grandfather Semyon Iosifovich - would be 100 years old. Semyon Iosifovich raised his grandson as a family and laid in him a lot of kindness and strength.

This Man went through several concentration camps, escaped, was a member of the partisan movement in Belarus, he was wounded twice. He received the Order of the Red Star, presented for the award for courage.

My husband's stories about my grandfather inspired me to create this painting in his honor.

Behind him are heavy memories of the barbed wires of the camps and the horrors of war that did not break him - they seemed to be refracted against his spirit. It seems to me that he was a very strong man, like the sea, which is why he retained the inner kindness that he generously gave to his little grandson, communicating with him, watching war films with him, which my husband now touchingly recalls.

And this kindness fell into good soil: after all, my husband, having become a father himself, follows the example of Semyon Iosifovich, when he also gives warmth and attention to his son.

Semyon Iosifovich himself was the father of two, now adults, children. I'm sure he often thought about them: they are symbolically depicted as two birds soaring over his inner sea.

The picture is made using the fresco technique. Gouache, acrylic, gypsum plaster. 2020.

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