Original artwork description:

"Tango of the Eggplant Shoes, a Straw Hat, and a Broken Dime"

This is an expressive, multilayered painting, infused with rhythm, symbolism, and inner tension. The title itself sounds like a surreal poem—each element carries emotional weight and metaphorical depth.

At the center, we see a face wearing a straw hat, with a piercing, weary gaze. It seems to observe the surrounding chaos from a distance, while simultaneously being submerged in it. Broken shapes, elongated hands, geometric fragments, and overlapping figures create a sense of motion—a dance where bodies and objects intertwine and lose their boundaries.

The eggplant-colored shoes may symbolize an odd, misplaced elegance against the backdrop of absurdity. The tango—a passionate and intense dance—transforms here into a whirlwind of unclear gestures and fractured forms. The broken dime suggests a loss of value, poverty—whether material, emotional, or existential.

A female figure in the foreground, with an exposed chest, appears vulnerable, almost displayed. Around her are abstract masks, fragments, and vibrant color patches that hint at internal conflict, chaos—or perhaps liberation.

The painting is filled with an anxious musicality—each brushstroke seems to resonate in the rhythm of an uncertain tango, where partners constantly lose their balance. It's visual jazz on the edge of dream and nightmare, reality and grotesque.
This artwork is made by traditional technology. Oil paints, canvas and linseed oil.
The picture is made in the author's method of associative analysis.
I think that this is somewhere post-expressionism.
The picture is sent in a tube.

Materials used:

Linen canvas. Oil paints. Linseed oil.

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