Landscape 1976

Curator: Standing before us is Vudon Baklytsky’s "Landscape," rendered in oil paint with an impasto technique in 1976. Editor: Oh, wow, it's intensely tactile. The textures are so pronounced, you almost want to reach out and run your fingers across that heavily painted surface. Feels less like a representation and more like an actual piece of land… or memory. Curator: The vibrant color palette evokes a lush, perhaps even fantastical, interpretation of nature. Observe the way the abstracted forms dance with light, suggesting an organic rhythm… or is that perhaps something deeper? Editor: Those burnt orange, skeletal trees upfront... they are screaming at me! They’re positioned right in front, so stark and angular. It's like the foreground is fiercely resisting the softer, blurrier, even dreamlike background. A symbolic protest maybe? Curator: Perhaps it represents resilience amidst chaos. Note the application of color, where layers create almost topographic shifts, speaking to growth but also reflecting entropy. Matter-painting indeed. Editor: I love the word chaos! You put the term protest, and I had a vision, a protest! My mother in her garden watering the herbs. The chaos looks to be colorful little herbs growing all around… what would you say if I say the whole painting depicts Ukraine's people's movement of colors as a living thing of the soil? Curator: That’s an evocative reading. Consider this: The color purple here is layered intensely with other greens and reds and blacks, to conjure royalty. What royal heritage can we draw from those elements, perhaps signaling sovereignty in spirit and cultural resilience through an individual's interpretation. Editor: It reminds me that even seemingly static landscapes are these bustling hubs of activity, you know? Constantly evolving and shifting. Curator: Precisely! The lasting impression hints at how symbolic expression echoes emotional responses of form, offering the painting's continued life within memory, almost 50 years on. Editor: And I’m grateful, still buzzing. It reminds me of looking inward to my deepest beliefs about art.