Portrait in Geometric Symphony (2015)Oil painting by Zakhar Shevchuk

Portrait in Geometric Symphony is a bold figurative painting by Zakhar Shevchuk that merges portraiture with a modernist language of colour planes and structured abstraction. The sitter is rendered with a calm, recognisable presence, yet the surrounding space is built from angular blocks of crimson, pink, orange and muted green – as if the room itself has been composed like music, with rhythm and counterpoint.

Rather than treating geometry as a decorative pattern, Shevchuk uses it to shape atmosphere and meaning. The figure remains the emotional centre, while the fragmented background intensifies the psychological charge of the portrait. The result recalls the spirit of early avant-garde thinking – an echo of Malevich’s idea that abstract form can carry feeling – but here that idea is brought back to the human scale, to a specific individual and a lived moment.

This tension between intimacy and structure makes the work especially collectible: it reads immediately as a portrait, yet it continues to unfold through its colour architecture and spatial ambiguity. Ideal for collectors drawn to contemporary figurative art, geometric abstraction and strong colour composition, the painting offers presence, modernity, and an art-historical dialogue without becoming academic.

Materials used:

Oil

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 82 x 114 x 2cm (unframed)
• Signed certificate of authenticity
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: People and portraits

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