BALLERINA - PALETTE KNIFE Oil Painting On Canvas By Leonid Afremov

We would like to present hand painted oil on canvas painting (recreation) of Afremov's artwork mentioned in the title. This art piece made by Leonid Afremov Studio with the same amount of soul and emotion just like the first original painting. The piece is created with oil paint on artistic canvas using Afremov's unique technique of a palette knife. The artwork has a lot of texture, you can feel the strokes by touching this painting. By purchasing on our site, you are buying directly from Leonid Afremov Studio. We guarantee your satisfaction and the best customer experience.

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about this painting:

Ballerina

Behind the curtain

Ballet is not only colorful performances on stage, but also long hours of preparation. In this painting, Leonid Afremov depicted just the final stage of this preparation – a ballerina tightens the ribbons serving as laces on her pointe. Otherwise, everything is ready – the hair is tied in a neat topknot on the back of heer head, her ballet skirt is ironed – a wide hem is spread across the floor occupying a large part of the canvas.

The artist, as always, depicted the background of the painting in the form of bright brushstrokes of different colors – we can see orange, yellow, blue and violet shades. But nevertheless dark colors prevail in them – right in the center we see a rather large dark blue spot. Perhaps with this color the artist conveyed the tension of the ballerina before entering the stage. And this is quite normal. Every self-respecting artist, no matter how professional he is, always experiences some kind of excitement before the performance. And the character of our canvas is still a girl and it is quite difficult for her to cope with tension. But let's hope she leaves all her fears behind the curtain and takes the stage completely calm and will perform the best dance in her life.

Everything you need to know about ballet

Let us suppose that looking at this painting you have an idea to expand the horizons of your cultural consciousness and decided to go to the ballet. Here is some facts you need to know:

1. Despite the fact that the genre of ballet comes from Europe, it reached its height in Russia, in the second half of the 19^th So real classic ballet is the national pride of Russians.
2. The troupe of the ballet theater has a very complex hierarchical ladder. You need to know only three of its steps: corps de ballet, soloists and premieres.
3. In classical ballet there are two types of dance: classical and character, that is, national.

Perhaps, to buy this painting you do not need to be a fan of ballet, you just need to feel the emotions that it depicts. And this is quite easy to do. Just look a few minutes at this ballerina!

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