In her "Living Line" series, Olga Drob-Pervushina addresses the image of the flower as a universal natural form, existing on the border between the recognizable and the abstract.
The artist works on unprimed canvas, consciously preserving its natural color, texture, and ability to absorb paint. The canvas ceases to be a neutral support and becomes a fully-fledged part of the work, directly interacting with the painter's gesture.
The paint penetrates the fabric, spreads, and leaves stains, streaks, and marks that the artist can only partially control. This freedom of the material is countered by the line—thin, fluid, sometimes almost graphic, and sometimes dissolving into the painted surface. It is the line that assembles the image, allowing the flower to emerge from the raw material of the canvas.
The plants here are not objects of botanical observation.
这里的植物不是植物学观察的对象。
Their forms expand, deform, disintegrate into separate fragments, and recombine, gradually approaching abstraction. In some works, the flower opens up to the viewer almost frontally; in others, it stretches, bends, or seems to follow an invisible movement of air. The impression arises of a living organism that cannot be definitively captured.
The white outline either emphasizes the shape of the plant or goes beyond it, turning into an independent plastic element. The dark drawing resembles at the same time botanical graphics, a quick sketch and a direct trace of hand movement. The unpainted spaces retain the natural surface of the canvas and become a space of air and silence around the image.
The white outline either emphasizes the shape of the plant or goes beyond it, turning into an independent plastic element. The dark drawing resembles at the same time botanical graphics, a quick sketch and a direct trace of hand movement. The unpainted spaces retain the natural surface of the canvas and become a space of air and silence around the image.
The white outline either emphasizes the shape of the plant or goes beyond it, turning into an independent plastic element. The dark drawing resembles at the same time botanical graphics, a quick sketch and a direct trace of hand movement. The unpainted spaces retain the natural surface of the canvas and become a space of air and silence around the image.
In "Living Line," the flower becomes a way to speak about the very nature of form—changeable, fragile, and yet resilient. Drawing strives to hold it in place, while the paint and texture of the canvas constantly violate established boundaries. This interplay of control and chance generates the series' unique tension. Nature is not copied here—it emerges anew within the material.