Mountain Crimea 1983

Yuriy Khymych made this landscape of Mountain Crimea with a brush dipped in cool blues and warm browns. I can imagine the artist layering washes of paint, each stroke building up a sense of depth and atmosphere. There’s a kind of starkness to the scene, but also a quiet beauty in the way the mountains fade into the distance, each range a slightly lighter shade of blue. I wonder if Khymych was trying to capture not just the physical appearance of the landscape, but also a feeling, a mood. Maybe he wanted to explore the vastness and timelessness of nature, or his emotional connection to this place. That little touch of gold on the bottom right is intriguing. Like a window shining, it adds a human element to the otherwise natural setting. Painting is a conversation, an echo of ideas rippling through time. And this one, it speaks of seeing and feeling, of the world outside and the world within.