A Matter of Scale | Surreal Figure and Building Artwork, 2026
Fine Art Drawings : Watercolour, pencil, ink · 40.5 x 28 x 0.1 cm 15.9 x 11 x 0 inch
€657
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Fine Art Drawings : Unique artwork
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed
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Hand-signed by artist
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Watercolour , pencil , ink on Fine art paper
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
40.5 x 28 x 0.1 cm 15.9 x 11 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
A giant figure turns a massive building into something almost small. The structure is viewed from below, where its steep perspective, repeated windows, and dark architectural lines make it appear heavy and imposing. Above it rests an oversized, angel-like observer whose relaxed pose immediately changes the relationship between viewer and architecture.
For the figure, the building seems less like a monument and more like a toy — a surface to rest on and an object worth inspecting. Though apparently tired, the creature remains curious, leaning over the roof to peer into the windows below. This contrast gives the work its playful character: what feels enormous from one point of view may look completely different from another.
Watercolor, ink, and pencil create a lively contrast between the rigid geometry of the facade and the flowing organic form above it. Colored reflections in blue, red, violet, ochre, and gold visually connect the two parts of the composition. The artwork is well suited to contemporary interiors and collectors drawn to surreal imagery, unusual perspective, and subtle visual humor.
Materials: Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper.
Shipping / Display: Shipped rolled in a protective tube and will require framing after delivery.
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Yana Dmitrieva is a contemporary artist whose practice moves between figuration, abstraction, and surrealism to examine uncertainty, adaptation, and the preservation of self. Her paintings focus on moments when familiar structures begin to dissolve and identity becomes something fluid rather than fixed.
Figures in Dmitrieva's work are frequently faceless. By withholding individual expression, she shifts attention toward the body itself — its posture, tension, balance, hesitation, and instinctive response to circumstances beyond its control. Human forms stretch, merge with fish and other organisms, or inhabit spaces that seem simultaneously above and below water.
Migration forms an important conceptual undercurrent in her practice, but the work deliberately avoids literal autobiography. Displacement becomes a broader psychological condition that can arise through relocation, loss, motherhood, separation, reinvention, or any experience in which a familiar version of the self no longer feels sufficient.
Her distinctive palette of aquatic blues, luminous greens, violets, and unexpected chromatic transitions intensifies this sense of instability. Landscape becomes less a physical location than an extension of consciousness.
Dmitrieva's ongoing Displaced Bodies series considers the body as an archive of uncertainty. Rather than illustrating what has happened to a person, the paintings preserve the physical state of being caught between what was and what comes next — a vulnerable, unresolved territory in which transformation has begun but identity has not yet settled.
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