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MInA MInSkAYA’S media is application, and deep in her heart she is primarily a
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lyrical artist. Her Tel -Aviv exhibition, Möbius Strip, is an emotional and excited
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reaction to tragic events, and her Explosion Series is full of dramatic attitude, which
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Among her latest works there are both dream and Hope. She expresses her ideas
is so typical of our compatriots and contemporaries.
and feelings in abstract forms, by means of associations and color metaphors,
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But we can also see the large and laborious composition entitled line
and color which demonstrates the artist’s interest to self-sufficient
thus coming to non-figurative art.
MInA MInSkAYA’S works are neither painting, nor graphic; her material is a rather
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non-traditional color plastic. She creates easel mosaics of holistic compositions.
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Among her peculiar artistic characteristics there are the refined feeling of color
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and the mild range of colors. Two compositions attract the particular attention:
reminiscences of degas and Toulouse-lautrec. Mina longs to reconstruct neither the
plots nor the style of her favorite artists, but rather the impression, the atmosphere
of their creative activities, and this associative move proves to be convincing.
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