Original artwork description:

I began this big painting in Berlin back in 2018 but I didn´t finished then- it remained "suspended" in studio. Over the following years, I returned to it in fragments, adding some retouches. Now in 2025, it is finally complete.

This acrylic painting unfolds like a metaphysical theater, where time, conflict, and stillness converge. Framed by crimson curtains, a woman sits posed on a stone bench, her gaze direct to the viewer, holding a chessboard on her lap- a symbol of life´s calculated moves, strategic, tensions, and fragile balance between opposing forces. Her gaze is steady, deep and direct, as if questioning like viewers own position in this existential game. The woman becomes both performer and oracle on this symbolic stage.

Behind her a city burns - flames devour a distant horizon - yet a white dove, bearing a golden king chess piece adorned with precious stones flies across the scorched sky. Peace exists here not as given, but as a struggle, a fragile gesture in defiance of chaos. A white poodle, symbol of loyalty and domesticated order, rests alert beside her, untouched by the surrounding tension. A glass vase of flowers boom against the darkness, and red berries emerge from the stone walls, echoing life´s quiet defiance of decay. They are the arts, the small graces that resist annihilation.

And tucked within the folds of the red curtain, almost like a secret, is the face of Fyodor Dostoevsky- surrounded by delicate golden jewelry. The glint of ornate chains and precious stones wrap around his thoughtful expression, as if he too is a relic and a prophet - speaking silently to the moral entanglements of our time. He watches from within the fabric, s buried conscience woven into the stage itself.

The painting becomes a metaphorical warning stage: we, like the woman, sit on the "stage" of decision, aware of the flames, the catastrophe or fear. The world, today, is caught between calculated moves and irreversible collapse - and the question hangs in the viewer´s gaze: What role will you play in this unfolding game? This is not just a painting, but a philosophical stage- where the viewer is no longer passive, but implicated.

Materials used:

Acrylic on canvas

Tags:

#landscape #flowers #woman #big painting #night #dog #war #chess #dove #god #game #justice #acrylic canvas #curtains