Description
Larissa Strunowa: * 1960 in Swerdlowsk (Jekaterinburg, Russia)
Execution: tusche on paper
Date: 2014
Dimensions: 39 x 29 cm
Signed: lower right
Provenance: original work from artist’s studio.
1976 – 1981 Studied painting and stage design in Moscow since 1995 Living and working in Germany since 1999 Member of BBK Landesverband Schleswig-Holstein since 2004 Member of Künstlerbund Rendsburg-Eckernförde.
The artist performs her canvas works in sovereign set color application. In doing so, she skillfully exploits all the possibilities offered by the color spectrum. Thus, the works already possess at first glance a high emotional appeal and fascination. The color application, performed in a wide variety of brush techniques, is full of energy and at the same time of great subtlety. A strong green, directly combined with deep blue tones combines with earthy radiant red tones to form a shape or a space. Nuanced and subtly applied color transparencies open up further structures, immersing the viewer in the painting. Here one senses the early training of the stage designer. She creates her world with a few areas of color. The expressive use of color is characteristic of her work throughout and thus the unmistakable trademark of the artist.
The artist’s works are always more than they appear at first glance. On repeated viewing, fragments of figures emerge; one discovers, for example, another face or a hand that connects with a body.
Thus, hidden in the pictures are references that we can decipher when we look at them. In the nice companion, for example, we first see the image of a young woman who encounters us flooded with light. Only upon closer inspection do we recognize the figure of a wolf next to her, his movement, his gaze accompanying the woman. And so interwoven with each other in color that a new togetherness and unity emerges.
Larissa Strunova shows us the souls, the characters of her subjects. Man, woman, child or dancer…it is always the human being and the inner state of mind associated with him that she shows us. Body and spirit, in ever new inventions.
The figurative representation, the energetic physical and the contemplation of nature are central components of her motifs.
The nature representation awareness, reflection, what this nature gives us, the perception of the beauty that surrounds us and that we enjoy is an important motif in the work of the artist. Her works radiate a calm and equally direct presence, we can let our eye and soul wander while looking at them. In this way, the artist’s paintings give us something important: the time to contemplate.
