Vladimir Yanovsky

After being more fluid with my techniques and using watercolours and pastels it was refreshing to go back to what I love most which is how I felt when I found this painting below by Russian painter Vladimir Yanovsky called 'Crimean Peisage' from the 1910's.

Although I couldn't not find too much about this piece It brought me back to using shapes which is something I really enjoy in my paintings along with black lines; It reminded me of Mondrian's work which I was obsessed with last year however it uses a lot more colours and does not follow De Stijil rules of primary colours and horizontal and vertical lines.

The colours convinced me that you can never have too much colour as long as you use it properly against others; although there are no rules in art and the composition has a lot going on and not just one focal point however the black line draws the eye to the larger red circle.

The small fragments of colour scattered like sprinkles along the piece fill up some of the white space in a neat and vibrant way, I had some discouragement from a current piece with filling in white spaces and this piece inspired me onto lots of different further ideas.