Beggars and Saints - Beggars and Saints by Dmitry Fesechko

Beggars and Saints by Dmitry FesechkoBeggars and SaintsI started my artist career as an abstract painter, then for some years I was totally absorbed in surrealism and symbolism. I also liked still life paintings and landscapes. I still do. And in all of those genres I have always tried to find answers to eternal philosophical questions that all human beings ask themselves from time to time. Or, at least, I have tried to find the visual form for the questions that could not be asked with words. The year 2017 was very important in my life. A lot of good things and bad things happened to me but all of those circumstances were leading me deeper into myself. And I guess I have started to realize those contradictions inside me and in others. To realize them and accept them. We are all “Beggars and Saints”. In December 2017 I started a series of paintings which I called Beggars and Saints. In our lives we always ask (and sometimes beg) other people or ourselves for something. And we always give something to others. Even a beggar on the street can give us a feeling of gratitude for the life that we have. And if we help him out, it may give us a feeling of comfort and a peace of mind and spirit. We are all beggars and saints not only to others but also to ourselves. The characters of this series take their origin from my own impressions. All faces are painted from imagination. Gestures of characters and different objects of the composition as well as a color composition compile visual images of a certain state of mind. Those characters are full of symbolism that helps me to invoke certain feelings inside the observer. They ask silent questions and help to find veiled answers. This series of paintings is a dissection of a human soul. First part of the Beggars and Saints series is inspired by the people of India. I have been to this wondrous land back in 2013. The trip has left its trace but some years were needed to decompound the impressions and assemble them into something new.

Over the edge - Dmitry Fesechko

Bind Forgiveness - Dmitry Fesechko

Still no answers, just new questions - Dmitry Fesechko

Unyielding - Dmitry Fesechko

Roaming. The truth is somewhere out there - Dmitry Fesechko

Last glance - Dmitry Fesechko

Searching the way out of existential crisis - Dmitry Fesechko

Burning youth - Dmitry Fesechko

Begging for salvation - Dmitry Fesechko

Night prayer - Dmitry Fesechko

Rest from the inner war - Dmitry Fesechko

Trapped childhood (left) - Dmitry Fesechko

Trapped childhood (right) - Dmitry Fesechko

Looking into the empty sky - Dmitry Fesechko

The vendor of dreams - Dmitry Fesechko

Temptation in hands - Dmitry Fesechko

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