"Always Together" by Vladimir Kush
12.9 x 9.5 Giclee on canvas
Edition size: 325 Signed and numbered
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"Always Together" shown custom framed

The image symbolically conveys to us the feelings of happiness and beauty of the world arousing in everyone bound on a distant voyage. In Japan, the image of the butterfly has inspired the artists for hundreds of years. It is always associated with the best moments in life. Here, traditional celebrations and marches begin with “the dance of the butterfly.” Butterflies also accompany wedding ceremonies in Japan. But not all know that butterflies are the amazing and courageous travelers. In favorable winds Monarch butterflies from North America can cross the Atlantic to reach England, resting as needed on the decks of ships.

A blossom opening its petals embodies the blooming Jove of the bud pair of lovers. The warm shining of love coming from it blesses and animates the mountains and valley, river, meadows, and trees... We see life and nature drawing closer together and imitating each other. Outlines of the mountain amphitheater repeat the form of the flower calyx, human figures merge into the petals of the bud. Soft pastel shades of the painting evoke dreams of dolce far niente - blissful idleness amid landscape strikingly similar to Italian. Skilful combination of fore - and background transforms the Morning Blossom into monumental image resembling a living sculpture rising in front of the mountain architecture.

"Morning Blossom" shown custom framed

"Ocean Sprouts" shown custom framed

 The pale sparkle of a pearl is associated with a full moon, while its marine roots are associated with fruitfulness. The development inside the clamshell, which is obscured from our eyes, is associated with the miracle of birth. According to ancient mythology, the goddess of love, Aphrodite (Venus, in Roman mythology), born of sea foam, wore a pearl. According to legend, Cleopatra dissolved a pearl from one of her earrings in wine and drank it in front of Mark Anthony as a display of her wealth and love for him. A partially opened clamshell is a symbol of female sexuality, the source of life. Away from human eyes and under the depth of the sea The secret fruit is preserved, beautiful and divine It grows at nights, when everything is sleeping And only the moonlight, lying on the ocean in a path, Penetrates the lip of the shell like silver rain. Human thought languishes in the darkness Speechless and powerless, contained in the folds of a clam. When a clear voice is heard from the heavens The fetters will suddenly fall and the dungeon will open Releasing the light of truth to reign over the world

"Pearl" shown custom framed

Purse is a symbol of wealth and accumulation. But only love is the master key which opens the purse of happiness, we could say paraphrasing the words of a famous American writer. This symbolism corresponds to the color of the purse. Red means love and passion in the first place, although purses are used to have the colors of earth or gold. But we employ red also in cases when we want to emphasize the symbolism of luxury and wealth. In China, red is considered to be the color of happiness and good luck. It is the color of the wedding attire too. The artist infuses into his image a certain irony: greed and excessive accumulation of wealth could lead to the separation of lovers

"The Red Purse"shown custom framed

Music influences a person in a magic way getting him to seek the sources of this influence in divine. The great German astronomer Johannes Kepler who discovered the laws of planetary motion was looking for a harmony in heaven. He recorded a sheet of heavenly music (“Music of the Spheres”) based on the movement of various planets. The painter creates his own artistic world populating it with heavenly spheres playing melodies, orbiting cosmic stations “dancing” to a wonderful waltz of Johann Strauss (as Stanley Kubrick in his famous science fiction film “2001: A Space Odyssey’), etc. His artistic thought draws into its orbit some old concepts full of poetry, for example Columbus’ opinion that the Earth was pear-shaped. He affirmed that the bulging part of it represented the site of the terrestrial paradise. Based on this theory the artist creates an image of the Paradise Pear Playing Music of the Spheres before the landscape with horses. Its heavenly prototype is the harmony uttered by the movement of an imaginary pear-like planet.

"Still Life with Mandolin" shown custom framed

The painting depicts the morning of the world. The newly born light illuminates everything around with the slightest of pink tones. It fills every space, forcing every living cell to flutter. Two essences – masculine and feminine – are united in a tiny nutshell. According to Tao religion, this is a union of yang and yin, which represents two opposites. From the force of yang comes the heavenly part of human soul, from the force yin comes its earthly part. The world fits inside a tiny nutshell microcosm, a part of the big world. According to Plato, there exists a mutual link between every person and the universe. The universe, or macrocosm, is a gigantic living organism, and the human, a microcosm, is a miniature universe. A tree is a symbol of the start and continuation of life.