Sudack. Signs of the times 1983

Yuriy Khymych made this painting, Sudack. Signs of the times, on an unknown date with oil paint. The artist is very concerned with edges, there is a softness here that really sings. This interest in the meeting of forms strikes me as a painter thinking through a process, and this is made very evident in his rendering of the sky. The textures in this painting are really speaking to me. The sky is a series of very obvious brush strokes and the building in the foreground has been handled completely differently. I love the way that the artist has allowed the building to become a canvas for another painting. The artist is allowing these marks to inform our emotional reading of the piece. Look at the brush strokes on the mountain, the way they follow the form. It's almost like a guide of how to read the piece. Khymych reminds me a little of Milton Avery in the way he simplifies the landscape. These are artists who remind us that a painting is not a window, but another world entirely.