Renaissance painting Yana Movchan
Born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1971, Yana Movchan graduated from Kiev Academy of Arts in 1995. Her thesis project (triptych entitled “Life on Earth”) won the “Golden Fund”, the highest award of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts. Yana Movchan has created a unique individual style of neorealism. Her beautiful works are contemporary, and yet timeless, mysterious, evocative and dreamlike. According to art critics, Movchan’s work are similar to Velasquez, Colville and Magritte. The artist took part in various solo and group exhibitions in Ukraine, Prague, London and Canada, and the US. Currently the beautiful and talented artist Yana Movchan, her husband and their two sons live in Halifax, Canada.

Along with detailed and delicately painted still lifes of flowers and fruit, you can see birds, angels, and of course, cats. Cats in her paintings usually – placed comfortably among the flowers and fruits. Favorite pets of the artist, cats are everywhere, contemplating birds and butterflies. Cats are noble, thoroughbred and plump, leading contented life. Surrounded by an abundance of natural beauty, they still are in the foreground, pleasing the viewer with beauty and laziness. If the cat is not on the table at home, it is in nature. What’s it doing there alone? Probably dreaming about something great … Because it already has everything. On some pictures cats look like fairy with wings. Maybe it’s former favorites, gone to another world …

Each work of the artist – a fairy tale, the story to think out, each in your own way. Surprisingly, magical …

Renaissance painting Yana Movchan

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