Author: lithops

Tania Stupnikova
Metamorphosis
Acrylic on canvas
2 * 40×60 cm
2022
Kyiv, Ukraine
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It all started with the thought – you never know what can happen if the helmet from the spacesuit breaks? You never know what, you never know where, you never know how…. or it won’t break, but it will hatch, sprout, grow… and start a new cycle – the same, or completely different… or it won’t start, it will stop there, will live in the moment. Or eternity, eternal circulation, repetition, admiration…
Some of this is bound to happen – or is already happening.

Tania Stupnikova
All mimsy were the borogoves
Acrylic on canvas
80×100 cm
2021
Kyiv, Ukraine
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All mimsy were the borogoves
I once thought that I wanted to say something with a painting. I once thought that I wanted to express something.
But then I realized that everyone will still see something of their own.
And I became a spectator for my paintings.
I see a strange, sleepy world where some creatures live their own small lives. And above them – the world, above them birth and death, above them something that they are not able to understand and see.
I don’t know if this is good or bad.
The title is a quote from “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll.

Tania Stupnikova
The fragile charm of love held together by fire
Acrylic on canvas
60×80 cm
2021
Kyiv, Ukraine
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Love, like glass, is plastic when heated and becomes fragile when it cools. Probably not only love, any strong feeling.

Tania Stupnikova
Third left turn
Acrylic on canvas
40×60 cm
2021
Kyiv, Ukraine
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I don’t know what it is either. Something from the subconscious. My third surreal painting.
Starting with this work, I seem to begin to feel surrealism. I’ve read hundreds of definitions, but none of them worked for me. This is precisely the feeling that cannot be described. But it can be recreated and transferred.
Yes, from picture to picture I will be brought back to realism – to some extent. But I will no longer give up these fantastic worlds. With or without reality anchors.

Tania Stupnikova
The rise of tomorrow
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 80 cm
2021
Kyiv, Ukraine
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A wonderful dream about the sea that will come true. A dream that will change my work will make me another artist – one I never dreamed of.

Tania Stupnikova
To be a mom
Acrylic on canvas
60×80 cm
2021
Kyiv, Ukraine
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To be a mom – this is a state of mind. That state when you take responsibility for those who are weaker. For those who cannot help themselves. This is life on the brink of burnout – and you can’t stop.
If something threatens them, children, you can lift the truck and swim across the ocean. You can burn out a hundred times and rise from the flame, you can return from the other world – just to help.

Tania Stupnikova
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Acrylic on canvas
50×50 cm
2021
Kyiv, Ukraine
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Flying Spaghetti Monster
– Pastafarian deity, the most tolerant and cheerful deity in the world. The FSM deigned to be invented by Bobby Henderson, who offered to study Pastafarianism in schools in response to Kansas’s decision to teach religion in schools.
Pastafarianism is a real religion. Flying Spaghetti Monster gave people commandments, the general meaning of which is that everyone should do their own thing, as much as possible getting pleasure from it, and not meddle in the affairs of other people. And even more so not to condemn them and not to persecute them.
So let’s praise the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the god of friendly hedonists!

Tania Stupnikova
Still life with camomiles
Acrylic on canvas
35×50 cm
2021
Kyiv, Ukraine
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Every artist should paint a vase. Ideally, of course, with flowers.
And an avocado. And all sorts of draperies. And a pomegranate.
But so far only flowers in a vase.
Spring mood for everyone!