Angel Painting - Blue dream story, 2022

Dasha Pogodina   Best sellers Emerging artists

"Angel Painting - Blue Dream Story" captures a celestial guardian perched atop a mythical creature, overseeing a quaint village under a starlit sky. The angel's gentle pose and ethereal wings convey a sense of protection and peace. A deep blue, reminiscent of the night sky, dominates the canvas, punctuated by hints of warm browns and the soft, comforting lights of the homes below.

The painting's thick, impasto brushstrokes give life and texture to the angelic figure and its steed, emphasizing the dreamlike quality of the scene. The dots of white and lighter blues scattered across the backdrop invoke a starry night, adding a touch of magic and wonder.

This artwork invites contemplation on the comforting notions of guidance and the mystical, bridging the gap between the earthly and the divine through its rich symbolism and vibrant hues.

Inner Garden Series. Daria explores the possibility of self-identification of a person from fragments of cultures and concepts, her works actualize the thirst for the integrity of the individual in the ever-changing cycle of ideas and meanings. The artist asks about the possibility of being an integral person in the metamodern era, characterized by oscillation between polar concepts and rethinking of fundamental ideas of the past. Her work is an inner response to the question of what integrality is and whether there is a need to strive for certain ideals.

Her work is also an external response to the totalitarian concepts that still exist in society. Concepts that are imposed from above require a false integrity, namely a certain ideology, and persecute everything that goes beyond these concepts. Born at the crossroads of Ukrainian and Russian cultures during the collapse of the Soviet Union, Daria manifests the norm of fragmentation as the norm, replacing the demands of integrity with the idea of accepting otherness as unconditional beauty. Her characters build their own world in which culture has not become a dictatorship - the world that Daria considers her home.

Here is what Daria herself says about her works

I draw hybrid creatures and symbols of an anthropomorphic world because I feel like a hybrid of cultures and identities. I desire wholeness, I love to see it in others, but I feel fragmented in myself. My paintings are my way of coming to terms with my own fragmented identity, and my way of showing that the beautiful does not always have to fit into an already existing framework.