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 Galleries:
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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 Premiere Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Yanina Movchan's Portfolio. Browse Movchan's body of work: 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 ... |
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