This original artwork, "Composition # 86," was created by contemporary Russian artist Iskan Ilyazov and is available for purchase online.

The alternate title of this painting is “Skies”

It was featured on the back cover of my solo 2016 Catalogue.

It is part of a diptych with the "Bodies" composition.

This painting has been exhibited at numerous group exhibitions and several solo shows.

Images of the painting appear in books published with my co-authorship.

I painted this Composition # 86 “Skies” in oils, under artificial lighting. The gradations of blue and light blue emerged naturally, and I outlined the curves with a pencil on the canvas FROM THE SHOULDER, as usual when marking shapes with a pencil on the canvas; that is, the movement comes not from the hand but from the entire length of the arm from the shoulder.

The Mediterranean Sea and the sky of the French Riviera are embedded in the gradations because I admired them for many months; I spent a total of 45 months there since 2003.

Fashion designer Lydia Fahretdinova used this painting and my other works to create models of unique designer clothing.

Taking a lyrical stance, I say: When we love, our bodies and souls merge into a single whole. This connection exists regardless of the distance between us. This state is called Quantum Love.

This blue composition "Skies" contrasts with the gold-brown composition "Bodies" as sublime and spiritual versus physical and mundane. The diptych is like a map for wandering souls, indicating two directions colorfully expressed by the artist. The down-to-earth part is "Bodies" and the poetic part is "Skies," as an antithesis containing an eternal conflict. But the conflict here is not only in meanings. The two paths consist of winding and intersecting roads. The material density of the brown-gold color meanders through simple intersections that visually converge in a single golden center of the painting. At the same time, the whole composition tends downward, as if pressed to the ground. On the other hand, the bluish transparency of this painting "Skies," like the subtlety of a disembodied spirit, forms a more intricate pattern; it seems that the roads of the spiritual path go both left and right, up and down; there are more of them than material paths, they overwhelm each other, forming many layers and penetrations. Light and floating, they seem to fly apart in different directions. They seem to outline the main path that rises upward to the dark blue color. Obese, addictive "Bodies" and airy, inviting "Skies" offer a telling juxtaposition.

 This painting can be hung on the wall in your apartment, house, office, restaurant, or hotel, and it will become a beautiful decoration for your interior.

You can purchase the painting “Composition # 86” sized 100 x 70 cm online with secure delivery to the address you specify.

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