Original artwork description:

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

"WARRIOR" is a vivid portrayal of strength and motion, a captivating tableau where mythology meets the modern spirit.
The figure, poised with a lance, exudes a sense of determination and ferocity, embodying the archetypal warrior's courage. The face, eyes closed, suggests an inward focus, as if drawing on an inner wellspring of power. The horse and rider seem fused together, a single entity charging forward, symbolizing unity of purpose and action.

The artist employs a rich palette, with deep reds evoking the passion of battle, while calming greens and blues in the background provide a counterbalance, suggesting a landscape both physical and psychological. The textural brushwork gives the painting a dynamic, almost tactile quality, imbuing the scene with a raw, untamed energy.

In "WARRIOR," the dance of color and form creates a narrative that speaks to the struggle and triumph inherent in the warrior archetype, a universal theme that resonates across time and culture. This painting is not just a visual experience, but an invocation of the indomitable human spirit.

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.

Materials used:

Oil, Acrylic

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