Zinoviev
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Oleksandr Zinoviev has painted the Zaporizhzhia steppe and drawn for international cartoon salons since 1986. Fifteen paintings, twelve cartoons, one graphic sheet.

Where the steppe

Oil painting of a sunlit Bakhchysarai street with cypresses, whitewashed walls and a pale cliff aboveBakhchysaraiOil painting of a rutted forest track filled with rainwater, pines standing in green light on both sidesForest at Lysa HoraOil painting of a white column and triangle at the centre of a spiralling storm of coloured facetsFountain of ColoursTwo-panel cartoon: a castaway calls for help, and a warship and liner arrive to take his island apartSOSCartoon of a crowned bolt enthroned above a kneeling congregation of nutsNuts and BoltsOil painting of a snow-filled village lane running between wooden fences towards a red-roofed houseThe Lane

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Meets geometry

01 — 15 works

Paintings

Oil on canvas — the manor houses and forests of the Zaporizhzhia region, then the steppe turning into symbol and geometry.

02 — 1 work

Graphics

Works on paper.

03 — 12 works

Cartoons

Forty years of entries to international cartoon salons — politics, faith, appetite and the small daily absurdities.

Selected

All work
Cubo-futurist oil painting of a rooster assembled from bright triangles, arcs and chequered planes

01

The Rooster

Oil painting of a bird-like form unfurling in swirling reds and oranges, a small blue mouthful of sky at its beak

02

A Gulp of Sky

Geometric oil painting of a figure made of coloured blocks beside a slate on which 2 + 2 = 4 is written

03

Childhood

Cartoon of a crowned bolt enthroned above a kneeling congregation of nuts

04

Nuts and Bolts

A crowd under a marquee at the international cartoon competition in Vasylivka

Vasylivka, 2011 — 2013

Founder of the international cartoon competition Fun in Vasylivka Style

The artist

Enquiries

alexzinovievart@gmail.com