Volodymyr Loboda

Volodymyr Loboda (1943, Dnipro - 2023, Lviv) is one of the brightest representatives of the Ukrainian underground of the 1970s and 1980s, a monumental artist, sculptor, graphic designer, and cultural activist. His style is associated with the trend of neo-expressionism in Ukrainian art of the 1980s and 1990s. The overarching theme of his works is the exposure of falsehood in the state, social order, and human relations. Grotesque and metaphor speak in his works. The artist even signs most of the paintings with rhyming phrases. The art form consists of a sparing range of primary colors and a black outline, similar to the style of the Austrian Expressionists. The artist's works are stored in the Lviv National Art Gallery, the Andrey Sheptytskyi National Museum in Lviv, the Dnipropetrovsk Art Museum, Kharkiv Art Museum, as well as in museums, galleries, and private collections of Ukraine, Poland, USA, Canada, Germany, Switzerland.

"The Plot 7" belongs to the initial stage of Volodymyr Loboda's creative search, which fits into the boundaries of "naive - modernism - the expression". In this work, the spontaneity and impulsiveness of the creative process characteristic of the author can be felt. Grotesque, laconic, and plastic broad strokes are based on the direct feeling and impression of the author, encouraging them to reject rational analysis and release the emotional and intuitive principle.