Картина "The Frog Princess"

(Артикул: VB-20262-923)

16 000

This work is a mythopoetic symbolism with elements of naive surrealism and neo-archaicism. A vivid mythological allegory.
The painting is about archetypes:
 • female deity / nymph / solar maiden
 • frog as a chthonic, earthly, transformational symbol
 • water as the boundary of worlds
 • light as divine revelation

This is a myth-painting, told not by words, but by light, gesture, and the pause between them.

Before us is the moment before the miracle.
Not a transformation, not a 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 come to 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 decoration 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, being before name. In it is potential, frozen by fear, heaviness, silence. Its enormity is not physical but existential: it is what seems insurmountable inside us.

Between them is water.
The boundary of worlds. A mirror. A transition.

At the bottom — a flash of crystal or lightning. This is not destruction, but the awakening of matter, the moment when even stone remembers that it was 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 whole 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 wants to change.

This is a story about:

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.

Состояние картины:

Год создания картины:

2026

Тип произведения:

Уникальный экземпляр

Стиль:

Символизм

Техника:

Масло

Поверхность:

Холст

Тема:

Сказка

Размер:

Очень большой

Ширина:

120 см.

Высота:

160 см.

Обрамление:

Стоимость доставки: Доставка не включена в стоимость картины

Стоимость доставки будет указана на странице оформления заказа, она зависит от размера картины и региона доставки.

Срок доставки: Обычно 5–7 рабочих дней по стране, 10–20 рабочих дней при международной доставке

Возврат: Политика возврата в течение 14 дней

Валерий Беленикин
Россия

Валерий Егорович Беленикин, российский художник, родился в 1961 году в Москве. Член союза художников ЮНЕСКО.В 2009 году художник упомянут в Энциклопед ...

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