Daria Kotlyarova Figurative Paintings

Negation (Three backs on the background of the clockwork) - abstract painting, made in black, grey, green, red, blue colors. The painting “Negation” is a certain form of the game, when you don’t like something, you don’t just ignore it, you don’t see it. People living in big cities, in the constant stress of constant barriers to their hopes, desires and plans, should be able to rest and relax, whenever necessary. The game has a simple rule: if I do not see what scares me, then there is no fear. Three backs on the background of the clockwork, symbolize fear, laziness and illness, they are connected by red thread, the greatest obstacles of a person on the way to happiness. Clockwork is life. In the modern world, the artist is a peculiar explorer of the time that he lives In. The “main character” of this world is a man whose gaze is turned inward. This view projects its existential reality, where the figurative language of painting is a method of transmitting abstract images of the experiences of the main characters and the time in which they exist on an equal footing with the viewer. Pictures of Daria Kotlyarova have no plot, at first glance, they have no action, but there is a moment. The moment before the second “before” ... and the viewer stops and freezes in tension, this is almost a psychological “cinema reception” that refers us to David Hockney’s paintings...