Vladyslav Rutskyi

I had a hard time deciding what art theme I will be exploring throughout my body of work. My body of work is about portraits. The emotion that each portrait represents,  each vibe, and story the artwork tells to the viewer were the main intentions for me to show. My initial concept was to study and show the portraits of people coming from different cultural societies, with different aims and goals. Portraits represent the beauty of the people's nature. I would like to make the viewer question the context of what and why is shown in the exhibit. Each piece is unique and questions the viewer to make their own assumptions and relate himself  to some of the artworks. 

In order to do so I tried to tackle the theme to different people. I experimented with the different media and the position of the people. The medium that I was feeling the most confident in is oils on canvas. Working with this exhibition was a new opportunity for me to explore new mediums, use new brushes and study different styles. Mostly I was trying to interpret the realistic style in different mediums. An example of these mediums were digital, collage, charcoal, oils, and graphite. Some artworks were influenced by my emotional statement I was during the time period of creating the artworks. Music also played a big role in the creation of the artwork. In some cases I have been using the literal meaning of the music in recreating it into the background of the artwork. 

Every artwork exhibited represents its uniqueness, the way of how the artworks are exhibited and arranged follows the gallery style of being presented in the straight line. This type of gallery style helps the viewer to see each art piece separately, and see how the style and medium was communicated throughout the artwork. The artworks are arranged by the time spent coming from the left, the time spent on each of the artwork increases and after the artwork named "Explorers of the Unknown '' the time spent decreases. I do not have the favorite artwork in this body of work. I am proud of all of my artworks, so I decided to present my best 4 artworks in the middle, and for both sides of 2 other artworks were presented. Also my artworks are arranged and presented by its height, starting with the left side, the artworks height is increasing, later on when it progresses to the right, it is becoming larger and then after the artwork named "Explorers of the Unknown" the artworks size is decreasing.