Original artwork description:

“Spiritually is finding the truth in you.”
― Wes Adamson

When conceiving this artwork, I was inspired by the Lars Von Trier's movie Melancholia and one of the Ivan Aivazovsky's artworks (from his "stormy sea" series)

It's about the contemplative attitude during a catastrophic event, about the refusal to face a tough reality. My artwork is a visual metaphor of human weakness counterposed to the imminent force of nature... or maybe chance?

It belongs to my "Magic Expressionism" series. It is not expressionism, surrealism, post-modernism, or new abstract etc. It's a paraphrase to the concept of "Magic Realism" - that generally describes the well known artistic movement in the South American Literature, but not only -, brought to the field of visual arts.


- the exact size is 133 x 98 cm / 52.36 x 38.6 inches.
- I applied to it more isolating layers of satin final varnish.
- it has about 7-8 cm (3 inches) extra white margin on the edges, in order to be stretched on wooden frame later on.

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It will be shipped rolled, in a hard tube. I recommend taking the artwork to a professional framer, in order to have it re-stretched.
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Materials used:

acrylic, varnish, gesso, canvas

Tags:

#catalin ilinca painting #catalin ilinca art #catalin ilinca #seascape #sea #large painting #clouds #surreal #surrealism #one of a kind art #storm #marine #figure painting #marine landscape #melancholy #ships #bold art #lyrical artwork #drama #metaphysical art #attitude #reality #identity #bold shapes #melancholia #energetic painting #metaphor #aivazovsky #tornado painting #master piece #ship in the night #metaphorical #genuine creation