"Words are so crude, so terribly primitive compared to drawing, painting, sculpture..."
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(Collector, J. Fowles)
Artist portfolio
"Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart" (Collector, J. Fowles)
"Through", 2019, mixed technique
Do I paint by order?
Yes, if I like your idea and I can imagine how to depict it in an artistic metaphor. Copying isn´t interesting to me, use the scanner better.
"Guilt", 2019, mixed technique
Do I sell my works?
Some of my paintings are on sale, others are not; some are exposed, others are hanging on the walls of my friends houses or in Russia or abroad.
"Point blank", 2019, mixed technique
Where to see them in flesh?
In a newly opened restaurant Khinka Lee (@ilovekhinkalee) at Nikitskiy boulevard, 25; or at my studio by arrangement.
Making your walls alive
"It's like drawing. You can't nibble at a line. The boldness is the line"
(Collector, J. Fowles)
(Collector, J. Fowles)
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Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life
(Jean Paul)
(Jean Paul)
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Transcendental arts
"I can draw it. I can draw his face and his expressions, but words are all so used, they've been used about so many other things and people. I write "he smiled." What does that mean? No more than a kindergarten poster painting of a turnip with a moon-mouth smile. Yet if I draw the smile…"
(Collector, J. Fowles)
"The things are in a hand. In a fold in a sleeve.
I know all this, we've been told it and told it and I've said it. But today I really felt it. I felt our whole age was a hoax, a sham. The way people talk and talk about tachism and cubism and this ism and that ism and all the long words they use—great smeary clots of words and phrases. All to hide the fact that either you can paint or you can't.
I want to paint like Berthe Morisot, I don't mean with her colours or forms or anything physical, but with her simplicity and light. I don't want to be clever or great or "significant" or given all that clumsy masculine analysis. I want to paint sunlight on children's faces, or flowers in a hedge or a street after April rain.
The essences. Not the things themselves. Swimmings of light on the smallest things.
Or am I being sentimental? Depressed.
I'm so far from everything. From normality. From light. From what I want to be".
(Collector, J. Fowles)
I know all this, we've been told it and told it and I've said it. But today I really felt it. I felt our whole age was a hoax, a sham. The way people talk and talk about tachism and cubism and this ism and that ism and all the long words they use—great smeary clots of words and phrases. All to hide the fact that either you can paint or you can't.
I want to paint like Berthe Morisot, I don't mean with her colours or forms or anything physical, but with her simplicity and light. I don't want to be clever or great or "significant" or given all that clumsy masculine analysis. I want to paint sunlight on children's faces, or flowers in a hedge or a street after April rain.
The essences. Not the things themselves. Swimmings of light on the smallest things.
Or am I being sentimental? Depressed.
I'm so far from everything. From normality. From light. From what I want to be".
(Collector, J. Fowles)
something between the thought and the thing...
Turning myself inside out, painting with blood and memories. That´s what it´s for me.
Not for show, but from my soul.
Not because of money, I just don´t need so much for myself.
Not for everyone, for select few.
Not because of money, I just don´t need so much for myself.
Not for everyone, for select few.
Sharing my soul...
If you don´t know what to present to the person you like, or what do you want to see waking up in the morning...
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Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison
That´s how I do it...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
about me, as it is
Actually I´m not a professional artist (if the professionalism is measured by higher art education diplomas).
I´m international relations specialyst graduated from Moscow State University, PhD in political studies; some years worked for Mexican and than Russian government, studied wine in Argentina, climed to the active volcano in Chile, meditated in Malaysia, participated in ayahuasca ceremony in Mexico...
Yeah, I´ve seen and experienced a lot in my lifetime, but painting always was with me, as a way of reconciliation with the reality, as a sublimation of some not fully digested emotions and impressions, sometimes like a protest, another time as a splash of anger, joy, or happines; exalted thirst to leave something after myself, something material but warm with heat of my soul.
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I´m international relations specialyst graduated from Moscow State University, PhD in political studies; some years worked for Mexican and than Russian government, studied wine in Argentina, climed to the active volcano in Chile, meditated in Malaysia, participated in ayahuasca ceremony in Mexico...
Yeah, I´ve seen and experienced a lot in my lifetime, but painting always was with me, as a way of reconciliation with the reality, as a sublimation of some not fully digested emotions and impressions, sometimes like a protest, another time as a splash of anger, joy, or happines; exalted thirst to leave something after myself, something material but warm with heat of my soul.
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“When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.”
― Shannon L. Alder
― Shannon L. Alder
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
Georgia O´Keeffe
Georgia O´Keeffe
* CONTACTS *
Sofía Kharbikh
I´m open to the new interesting projects
Write me to kharbikh@gmail.com
Follow me in Facebook and Instagram
Write me to kharbikh@gmail.com
Follow me in Facebook and Instagram
Photographs by Sofía Kharbikh / Inspiration by Providence
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