Landscape with a canarybird by Pavlo Makov

Landscape with a canarybird 2021

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watercolor

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contemporary

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landscape

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figuration

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watercolor

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abstraction

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modernism

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watercolor

Dimensions: 152 x 121 cm

Copyright: Pavlo Makov,Fair Use

Pavlo Makov made this work, *Landscape with a canarybird,* with an openness to letting the materials lead the way. The canary yellow is applied like a wash, loose and free with visible brushstrokes. The tree is a wonderful metaphor for resilience, roots exposed, but lush with foliage, almost vibrating against the ground. Looking closely, the paint is applied in tiny dabs, a pointillist haze of greens and browns, and feels like a record of time, of observation, of slow looking. The roots of this tree have been rendered in a kind of loving detail. I’m reminded of another tree painter, Agnes Martin, who understood the tree as a symbol of endurance, but here, we have these strange columns of numbers, like DNA, or a barcode. Is this the code of the tree, or the code of nature itself?

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