(Article: VB-20262-923)
This work is a mythopoetic symbolism with elements of naive surrealism and neo-archaicism. A vivid mythological allegory.
The painting is about archetypes:
• a female deity / nymph / solar maiden
• the frog as a chthonic, earthly, transformational symbol
• water as the boundary between worlds
• light as divine revelation
This is a myth-painting, told not with words, but with light, gesture, and the pause between them.
Before us is the moment before the miracle.
Not a transformation, not the climax, but that fragile second when the world held its breath.
The female figure is not just a nymph and not just a goddess.
She is consciousness that has reached the boundary of matter. Her body is almost devoid of shadow, as if the flesh here is secondary, and the main thing is the radiance emanating from within. The golden halo is not an ornament or a sign of holiness, but a flash of recognition: the moment when the being understands who it is.
She leans forward—a gesture of trust, not power.
The hand does not command but invites.
The frog is the most ancient symbol.
It is not "ugly," it is primordial. A creature of water and earth, life before form, existence before name. Within it lies potential frozen by fear, heaviness, silence. Its vastness is not physical but existential: it is what seems insurmountable within us.
Between them is water.
The boundary of worlds. A mirror. A passage.
At the bottom—a flash of a crystal or lightning. This is not destruction, but the awakening of matter, the moment when even stone remembers that it was once light.
The arrow in the woman’s hand is not a weapon.
It is intention. Direction. The will to meet.
She does not intend to wound—she points the way.
The entire scene is devoid of aggression. There is no struggle here.
Only a quiet, almost intimate agreement between the higher and the lower, the light and the heavy, the celestial and the earthly.
The meaning of the painting is transformation through acceptance, not through violence.
Not to "defeat the dragon," but to lean toward it.
Not to destroy the darkness, but to illuminate it so much that it itself desires to change.
This is a story about the fact that:
a miracle happens not when someone becomes different,
but when they are seen.
The painting leaves the viewer in a state of gentle anxiety and hope because the answer is not shown.
We do not know if the transformation will happen.
But we know—the meeting has already occurred.
And sometimes that is enough.
Artwork's condition:
Year of creation of the painting:
2026
Artwork Type:
Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Style:
Symbolism
Technic:
Oil
Support or surface:
Canvas
Topic:
Fairytale
Size:
Oversized
Width:
120 cm
Height:
160 cm
Framing:
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Valery Egorovich Belenikin, a Russian artist, was born in 1961 in Moscow. He is a member of the UNESCO Artists' Union.In 2009, the artist was mentione ...
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