Artist Information:
Yanina Movchan
Halifax,
Canada
Member Since: Jan 2009

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Artist Statement:
Award-winning painter Yana Movchan
Yanina (Yana) Movchan was born in Kiev in 1971. Yana’s sublime mastery of the technique and structure of Renaissance painting combines with the instinctive symbolism of “magical realism” to create a personal neo-realist idiom. Her work is formal yet also playful, contemporary yet ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Awards/Highlights
2007 Glenn Gould Foundation commission. Commemorative portrait of the celebrated pianist to mark the 75th anniversary of his birth
2001 Best Painting Award, Annual Juried Show, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
1995 Golden Fund Prize (the highest art award in the Ukrainian Art Academy) for “Life on Earth” (triptych...
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Artist Reviews:
Just when you thought nobody would ever again paint like Velazquez or Zurbaran or the 17th-century Dutch still-life painters, along comes this young woman named Yana Movchan, with her traditional art training in Kiev and, her hallucinatingly detailed paintings of piles of fruit and vegetables with attendant dragonflies...
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Yanina Movchan's Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Yanina Movchan's Portfolio. Award-winning painter Yana Movchan
Yanina (Yana) Movchan was born in Kiev in 1971. Yana’s sublime mastery of the technique and structure of Renaissance painting combines with the instinctive symbolism of “magical realism” to create a personal neo-realist idiom. Her work is formal yet also playful, contemporary yet timeless, joyous yet also mysterious, evocative, dreamlike.
In Yana’s paintings the intellectual and the emotional synthesize to form images that touch the viewer’s heart whilst issuing a challenge. There are deeper meanings to be unravelled, hidden clues amongst the hyper-real still lives, portraits and animal scenes; meanings that echo deep in the viewer’s unconscious. Reviewers have compared Movchan’s work to Velasquez, Colville and Magritte.
Yana trained at the Ukrainian Art Academy. Her Master’s thesis project (a triptych entitled “Life on Earth”) won the Golden Fund Prize, the Academy’s highest art award. Her work has featured in solo and group exhibitions in Ukraine, Prague, London and Canada. She currently lives in Halifax, Canada.
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Dream, 2008 Oil Painting, 48 x 36 X 1 inches USA shipping: 300 Price: US$ 10000
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