Anatoly Kryvolap

Anatoly Kryvolap (1946) is a Ukrainian painter, a master of color expression, who interprets painting outside the range of figurative abstraction. The metaphorical world of Kryvolap is deeply rooted in the tradition of ethnic and spiritual culture. The author proposes the concept of a "new Ukrainian landscape", where color has an independent emotional function, turning the landscape into a meditative space. For him, color combinations are nerve cells that create bright and powerful sensations woven from contrasts and contradictions. Kryvolapa's canvases will create new traditions, defining Ukraine's place in the 21st century. According to Forbes magazine, Kryvolap became the most successful artist in Ukraine and the most expensive among artists of Ukrainian contemporary art worldwide - in 2011, at the Philips auction in London, his canvas "Horse. Night" was sold for $121,343. 

"Spring Yard" is the work of Anatoly Kryvolap from the early period of creativity after the academic decade. The author started as an academic artist, painted sketches from nature, but did not want to create "Soviet art". He studied color and developed its shades in this early period, almost like a scientist researching color theory. Kryvolap, as an artist, feels the world and reacts to reality with colors. Spring nature on the landscape has not yet blossomed, so spring is most strongly felt in the bright color of the sky. The contrasts of this landscape tease and appeal to the viewer's sensory experience to immerse him in a meditative state.