#flora yukhnovich

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flora yukhnovich

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Flora Yukhnovich (British, 1990), Sweet Spot, 2019. Oil on linen, 150 x 140.6 cm.

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Flora Yukhnovich (British, b. 1990), Warm, Wet N' Wild, 2020. Oil on linen, 210 × 180 cm

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Eye catching faux baroque art. Hilarious meets art history and technical prowess.

Flora Yukhnovich at the Hirshorn Collection in DC.

From the description:

b. Norwich, England, 1990

Lipstick, Lip Gloss, Hickeys Too (2022)

Oil on linen

Flora Yukhnovich's monumental paintings combine subjeots, themes, and palettes drawn from earlier artistic movements with the dynamic brushwork of postwar American painting.

In Lipstick, Lip Gloss, Hickeys Too, she puts elements of the eighteenth-century Rococo style, characterized by pastel colors and sensual femininity, into conversation with Abstract Expressionism, associated with the swaggering, hypermasculine stance of painters such as Jackson Pollook. The resulting composition hovers between figuration and abstraction, as Yukhnovich's broad, swirling brushwork makes the female nudes all but melt into the surrounding landscape. This fluid, all-over quality, in which landscape and figures slip in and out of focus—also seen in Lee Krasner's Siren, to the right-thwarts conventional objectification of form in favor of a more sensual or even empathetic engagement.

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Flora Yukhnovich

Study

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FLORA YUKHNOVICH

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Detail

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omg kara I love seeing all of ur art thoughts!!! May I ask who your fave artists are?? hope you’re having a lovely night 💕

aaaa hi skye!!!!

ur so sweet and yes ofc you can but i feel like my thoughts are a bit… idk i feel it’s an odd selection

first of all, and also maybe obviously, my baby, vincent van gogh which i feel like is just… i mean of course he’s my favourite but like… that man, right, like he drives me insane. like this is maybe fairly self-explanatory, everyone loves van gogh

then, and this is also fairly obvious, or to me at least, i am a HUGE michelangelo girly, likeeee the way he views the body is just soooo. it’s exquisite actually and i’m studying his poetry at uni next term which i’m SO excited about!!!! get ready for me to be SO annoying about him

i also had this one artist in my brain for so long and i couldn’t remember her name but it came to me yesterday!! it’s flora yukhnovich and i just love how like dynamic her work is, like nods to classics w this fun kinda twist

umm who else… another more modern artist, aida tomescu, i love her so much, there’s just Something about her pieces, also when i was doing my art a level i looked into her a lot bc i was thinking about process art and that sort of thing which was all really interesting to me

also i think i mentioned this another time but jenny holzer i LOVE, and dante gabriel rossetti (absolute icon like imagine loving dante so much, you change ur name to match his i love him), i also really like modigliani, him and those long necked women lmao, oh and OFC caravaggio i LOVE him (if u couldn’t tell i’m a Major renaissance girly)

anyway these are all just off the top of my head and there are many many more but i’m gonna shut up now lol tysm for asking, hope you’re having a lovely night too <33

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Flora Yukhnovich, Crème de la Mer, 2022

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Flora Yukhnovich

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Gallery visit: Hirschhorn Museum (4.7.24)

Laurie Anderson's Four Talks (2020-2021, multimedia installation)

Description: "Laurie Anderson is one of the leading multimedia artists of our time, and her innovative work in performance, music, technology, and visual art has profoundly influenced popular culture for more than forty years. In 2021, as part of The Weather - her largest US exhibition to date - the Hirshhorn invited Anderson to create a new work on site. She worked ten-hour days at the Museum for more than two weeks to paint directly on the walls and floor of this large gallery, covering nearly every inch with stories, song lyrics, quotations, jokes, and commentary on current events. Painting in a stream-of-consciousness manner, without preparatory sketches, she created an enveloping and intensely personal installation that takes viewers on a journey through her mind. The installation's title, Four Talks, refers to the four sculptures - a raven, a parrot, a canoe, and a shelf - at its center, each accompanied by a pithy story or text passage. Monumentally scaled, conceptually rich, and visually captivating, Four Talks represents a key achievement in Anderson's career."

Loie Hollowell's Boob Wheel (2019, oil paint, acrylic paint, sawdust, and high-density foam on linen mounted on panel)

Description: "Loie Hollowell paints abstract images of the body that evoke sensory experience. Echoing the weighty curves of ancient fertility figures, she attaches spherical forms to her canvases, turning paintings into sculptural objects that reflect light and cast shadows onto their own surfaces. Hollowell uses colour to convey emotional and spiritual content in a manner akin to early American Modernist painters such as Georgia O'Keeffe, whose works similarly blur the line between the human body and the landscape. In Boob Wheel, Hollowell distills the female form into five geometric shapes arranged along lines of light that run vertically and horizontally through the composition. The vertical line stands in for the spine and acts as an axis mundi (axis of the world), a device used in sacred architecture to connect heaven and earth."

Flora Yukhnovich's Lipstick, Lip Gloss, Hickeys Too (2022, oil paint on linen)

Description: "Flora Yukhnovich's monumental paintings combine subjects, themes, and palettes drawn from earlier artistic movements with the dynamic brushwork of postwar American painting. In Lipstick, Lip Gloss, Hickeys Too, she puts elements of the eighteenth-century Rococo style, characterized by pastel colours and sensual femininity, into conversation with Abstract Expressionism, associated with the swaggering, hypermasculine stance of painters such as Jackson Pollock. The resulting composition hovers between figuration and abstraction, as Yukhnovich's broad, swirling brushwork makes the female nudes all but melt into the surrounding landscape. This fluid, all-over quality, in which landscape and figures slip in and out of focus - also seen in Lee Krasner's Siren, to the right - thwarts conventional objectification of form in favour of a more sensual or even empathetic engagement."

Yayoi Kusama's Pumpkin (2016, FRP (fiberglass-reinforced plastic) and urethane paint)

Description: "For Yayoi Kusama, pumpkins represent a source of radiant energy. They are perhaps the artist's best-loved motif, appearing in paintings, drawings, sculptures, and some of her most important installations. Both endearing and grotesque, the giant gourds have been an inspiration for Kusama since her childhood, when she was surrounded by her family's seed nursery in pre-war Japan. In an autobiographical poem, she writes, "Pumpkins bring about poetic peace in my mind. Pumpkins talk to me.""

Row 1: Alexander Calder's mobiles - Zarabanda (One White Disc) (1955, sheet metal, paint, metal rods, and wire), Fish (1944, metal, paint, wire, plastic, wood, glass and ceramic), Untitled (1953, sheet metal, paint, and wire)

Row 2: Oscar Bluemner's Morning Light (Dover Hills, October) (1912-1916, oil paint on canvas), Yun Gee's Skull (1926, oil canvas on paperboard mounted on wood), Giacomo Balla's Boccioni's Fist - Lines of Force Il (1916-1917/reconstructed 1956-1958/cast 1968, brass and paint)

Row 3: Stanton Macdonald-Wright's Conception Synchromy (1914, oil paint on canvas), Nicolas Party's Head (2018-2022, oil paint on coated polystyrene), Tsuruko Yamazaki's Work (1957, aniline dye and varnish on tin)