Dina Belaia
Dina started her visual art training at an early age while living in former USSR. As a teenager she joined the Analytical Art Studio, and still follows this school and artistic method for 30 years. In Canada, she continued her studies and graduated in Visual Arts from York University. She works as an illustrator and graphic designer and even a face/body painter, as well as a fine artist. Dina is a practicing artist who has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, where her works received numerous merit awards and prizes. She is an Associate member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Dina's drawings and paintings follow the school of Analytical Abstractionism (see www.analytical-art.com).
It employs a process of non-programmed creating forms from particular to whole, analysing the appearing image rather than synthesizing it. Try to understand not "what", but "how" it is done.
Be interested not in the face of the clock, but in the inner mechanism to understand progression of time.
Dina started her visual art training at an early age while living in former USSR. As a teenager she joined the Analytical Art Studio, and still follows this school and artistic method for 30 years. In Canada, she continued her studies and graduated in Visual Arts from York University. She works as an illustrator and graphic designer and even a face/body painter, as well as a fine artist. Dina is a practicing artist who has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, where her works received numerous merit awards and prizes. She is an Associate member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Dina's drawings and paintings follow the school of Analytical Abstractionism (see www.analytical-art.com).
It employs a process of non-programmed creating forms from particular to whole, analysing the appearing image rather than synthesizing it. Try to understand not "what", but "how" it is done.
Be interested not in the face of the clock, but in the inner mechanism to understand progression of time.
$375.00
Acrylic on canvas.
14x18"
Many faces, each existing in its own plane, isolated and seemingly disconnected, except that the planes together form the overarching cityscape structure, in which they all dwell. The core of the work is "teased" by the only free character - a bird.
$500.00
Graphite on paper.
13x22"
The human character is being crushed under the load of everything in life. Bearing the load of life is an eternal topic.
“Load” was a part of the Mental Health Awareness Campaign by Twenty-Twenty Gallery in 2020. Posters with this artwork were exhibited in Toronto subway cars in 2020 – 2021.
$500.00
Acrylic on canvas.
12x12x1"
An analytical and cubist approach reveals a strong and complicated female personality.
$550.00
Ink, watercolour on paper.
20x24"
An analytical composition of a colourful human figure with grotesquely large and heavy hands. Psychological symbolism of human conditions such as extreme complexity, fatigue, heavy thoughts, etc.
$550.00
Graphite, pastel on paper.
24x20"
An analytical composition where various elements form a fatigued/sleeping human figure with numerous ominous faces appearing out of its surroundings. It echoes Goya’s famous print “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters”, and concentrates on human condition, and inner workings of human mind.
$375.00
Graphite on paper.
20x27"
An allegorical composition of a rebellious female character withstanding various offenses (subjection, confusion etc), one of which is aging, symbolized by faded autumn leaves.
$315.00
Graphite and collage on paper (framed).
8x10"
A collage of drawing on printed map and paper, evoking the feeling of parting and loss.
$395.00
Mixed media and acrylic on canvas.
10x10"
A thoughtful and emotional mixed media composition. Juxtaposing the young and old faces creates the notion of aging, and in general of time creeping by.
$375.00
Ink and watercolour marker on paper (framed).
16x20"
An analytical composition of dynamic elements, forming a colourful emotional figure and its surroundings.
$525.00
Mixed media and acrylic on canvas (framed).
19x22"
An allegorical representation of the autumn feeling, where a sensual character is formed by faded leaves.
$375.00
Ink on paper (framed).
20x16"
Drawn on a day when it snowed in May of 2021, Coronafish 21 is an allegorical composition reflecting the heaviness and anguish of being in isolation due to Coronavirus. A monstrous fish with the virus spikes (literally) overshadows the Toronto cityscape.
$675.00
Graphite on paper (framed).
24x30"
FIGURED OUT is an analytical composition formed by numerous human figures, some intertwined, and some unaware of each other. Human condition, human distance, self-awareness and understanding, introspection and human complexity show through the intricate details, as the viewers discover new shapes and themes indefinitely.