still life

WHITE, BLACK, YELLOW AND BLUE

2005
Painting by Valery Koroshilov
Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm. Smith & Williamson Art Collection, London

Several works of strongly Mediterranean character, including Malagari series, were painted on a Greek Island of Samos. Malagari is the name of a small village, where I have a studio and travel every summer to paint to.
These lemons, carefully arranged and crafted, soak up the sun - while we receive a view of the background, pure and thoughtful, with straight planes, symmetry and reflections, and perhaps reminiscent of a modernist stage set.

As the title suggests, there were only four basic colours used throughout the canvas. All the tones and hues are the result of mixing those four in various proportions.

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