by ANELIYA ALEKSANDROVA

Artwork Description

PAIN 3

100.0 x 100.0 cm

Pain 3 presents that instant when the masculine and feminine principles associatively refer to Yin and Yang. Just as Yin is the light, the feminine side, and Yang is the dark, the masculine side, here the masculine and feminine principles are both equally represented in black and white. At each of the centres, reciprocally exists a part of the other, and thus they symbolically complement each other, i.e., there is white in the black and vice versa. It is a mark of interdependence, of a trace of light within the dark and of darkness within the light. They are two poles drawn to each other like magnets, yet at the same time separated by a metal barrier in the centre of which love is smouldering. Two principles are intertwined in the Universe -- Yin and Yang. They symbolise the darkness and the light, the male and the female principles, the good and the evil, the positive and the negative, the passive and the active. They are equivalent and only the interaction of the two energies creates the harmony of life. Every object, situation or element tries to find the right balance. The balance of Yin and Yang is a promise for prosperity and happiness, and any excess or shortage of either has a negative impact on the energy of life. They are an expression of duality and of universal mutual complementarity. Yin always contains the potential of Yang and vice versa. The interconnection between them creates the essence of life around us. One force cannot exist without the other, just as the day will lose its meaning without the night. Yin and Yang represent two opposites that are never completely opposed. Yin and Yang are expressions of the cosmic dualistic system. Yin symbolises femininity, passivity, earth, and Yang masculinity, activiness, heaven. Half of Yin laps the dark part and half of Yang - the light part. This polarity gives birth to the five elements - metal, water, wood, fire, earth, and their interaction creates the diversity of the world. As a sign of bilateral dependence, the Yang part has a dark centre and the Yin part has a light centre. This indicates that it is rather an expression of the desire to complement each other than a matter of collision between light and darkness in the effort of the one principal to prevail over the other. mix media_acrylic_canvas_ 120 x100 cm_2019

Artwork Details

Medium: Mixed Media

Genre: Abstract