Original artwork description:

Zakhar Shevchuk’s Fountain (2024) transforms a familiar urban motif into a psychologically charged abstraction. Painted in oil on canvas, the work depicts the rising spray and cascading waters of a fountain through vigorous strokes of white, blue, and turquoise. The surface conveys vitality and motion, almost sculptural in its texture.

At the base, simplified human silhouettes emerge, their presence fragile compared to the overwhelming structure above. Their anonymity underscores the tension between human scale and natural or elemental force.

What shifts the painting from simple representation to something more complex is Shevchuk’s color. Sharp yellow and green accents cut through the cooler tones, creating a dissonance that unsettles the scene. The fountain becomes at once lively and disturbing, a metaphor for fleeting joy shadowed by unease.

Fountain exemplifies Shevchuk’s ability to merge figuration with abstraction, vitality with tension. It is a work that rewards prolonged viewing, revealing both surface energy and psychological depth.

Materials used:

Oil

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