Kravchuchka
Size: 185 W x 135 H x 3 cm. Painting: Oil on Canvas. 2014Kravchuchka
There are such pictures, more precisely the names of the pictures, which can be decoded at a specific place and time. When Ukraine in 1991 became an independent state after the collapse of the USSR, then for the first time in history, the first president of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk appeared. And as the system changed, chaos and devastation began in the country. To survive, people were forced to travel to Poland and sell goods at cheaper prices, they were called "shuttles", and bags on a small trolley were called "Kravchuchki" from the name of the president L. Kravchuk. Therefore, the work is called Kravchuchka.Colorless bunnies on the background of snow falling in the blue-gray silence ... The picture froze in the air. Twilight is lit only by a rosy pumpkin, - the center of colors and attractions of the composition. In a businesslike checkered trolley silently recommends: "Buy a pumpkin, eat, get enough, give yourself joy." The irony of the still lifes of classical masters of the past. They gladly painted partridges and bunches of grapes in their girls' mouths, symbolizing abundance. And here is a symbol of prosperity - only pieces of chopped vegetable on bare plywood. Quite an expensive, proudly distinguished, business item. Food was the main idea of the people among the ubiquitous dirt and rudeness of cigarette butts. Time quietly falling from the sky, colorless bunnies, small businessmen. Like snails, slowly dragging their belongings through life, timidly trying to better sell themselves, at least in parts. Scary perspective, lead.
All thanks to our first-born, blond beast. After it, Ukrainians will forever sweep salt in stores at the words “the hryvnia is falling”. And to boast of iPhones, modern analogues of wealth for the poor. Kravchuk did not promise anything, but they lived in a new way that they remembered not soon how to smile in the old way.