Olga Tsareva: Drawing: Russia
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The Flag .7
Color Pencils on Paper
22" X 30"
$850.
The Fountain .5
Color Pencils on Paper
22" X 30"
$850.

The driving principle of Tsareva's drawings is always the search for the equilibrium of three-dimensional illusion and a flat surface, the actual image and a sign, the real and a hint. Tsareva is not seeking a real image, but only its likening; an allegory, a transformation.

In her latest series, Tsareva sees her task as to portray the very dynamics of life through various objects - fountains or water, branches of bushes, fluttering flags, and streaks of rain. Drawing offers the possibility of leaving any portion of working surface untouched. These clean white spaces are a very powerful, decisive component of drawing. The expanse which surrounds the actual subject is theoretical. because of the white background the image can "be" without the completion of the environment, this image lives in its own ideal space, in its own "universe."

The real world can be very expressive in every bit, therefore in Tsareva's works, she tries to get closer to understanding the rules of the existence of this visual expressiveness.