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Alive Caroil paintings

visual artist ELEONORA MANAPOVA

Artist Statement

A big transparent tractor was my favorite toy when I was a little girl. The sense of delight and gratitude for car designers led me through the process of creation of new series I called Alive Car. Chosen traditional methods of oil painting with multitude of thin glazes helped to emphasize the perfection of varnished car's surfaces and beauty of streamline shapes. Spots of light on edges gradually transform to sunny shapes sinking in deep shades. Dramatic expression of an enormous power and speed in car's eyes was achieved by dynamic diagonal composition, sophisticated brushstrokes and translucent tints of vivid colors. When I visit Auto Show I like to contemplate the way how colorful rainbow of lights  illuminates  brand new models and turned them into an another, an amazing look in a few seconds. This cheerful celebration of novelty I tried to imprint in my paintings. Absence of our usual environment, details and reflections offers to concentrate on dialog and mutual relations between human being and his iron creation, which sometimes looks at us as alive...

BMW, oil on canvas, 30”x40”

Ferrari Scaglietti, oil on canvas, 30”x40”

Cadillac STS, oil on canvas, 30”x40”

Mazda, oil on canvas, 30”x40”

Mercedes Crossport, oil on canvas, 30”x40”

Jaguar, oil on canvas, 30”x40”

Lexus, oil on canvas, 30”x40”

Audi Le Mans, oil on canvas, 30”x40”

Body of artworks, oil on canvas, 30”x40”

Alive Car

By Eleonora Manapova

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