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Art and running

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 For some time I wanted to write something about my hobby, that is, about  running on the art website.  However I couldn`t find common point. Probably someone will say that nothing is easier: paint a runner, a picture from a marathon, a drawing of athlet`s facial grimace of suffering  reaching the finish line. But that would be too easy. In addition, nothing will convey the dramaturgy of sporting competitions as well as a good photo or a film coverage. There are sport-related motifs in art history. For example in ancient art, especially Greek, sculptures and painting on ceramics. They can also be found later. Runners, Panathenaean amphora from 530-520 BC, collections of the British Museum. Art and sport were much closer to each other for some time. In ancient times and even in modern times, art competitions accompanied the Olympic Games. The winners received Olympic medals. After the Olympic Games in London in 1948, they were abandoned. It was found that contemporary art is not measura

These paintings no longer exist

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 Recently I have found some notes from the past. I got intrigued by a bit in which I described the technique and the process of creation of oil paintings. These paintings no longer exist. That is for a simple reason - I killed them myself. I used them as a painting canvas. And though they all still live in my memory, in reality they don’t exist. I have my own thoughts about it. I don’t want to go into metaphors and present it as a symbol of human fate or, as some would say, other such trivialities. I am presenting a fragment of the mentioned notes: Something new has started to happen. I moved on from my interest in texture to a simple painting activity - working with colours. The rapacity, that I used to express with texture, now was about to be brought to life by colours. When I exhausted all means for the colours to fulfill my expectations, I enriched it using different raw materials. The result was a texture that could either enhance the appearance of the colour, or replace it entir