This 2024 oil painting by Iryna Malynovska, created on a 100x100 cm canvas, employs layering and impasto techniques to create a richly textured and immersive composition. The restricted palette is based on deep grays, luminous whites, and intense orange highlights, enhancing contrast and visual impact.

The brushstrokes are both dynamic and controlled, alternating between spontaneous gestures and precise detailing. The blurred effect in certain areas brings a sense of movement and lightness, while the use of light and shadow creates striking depth. The impasto technique adds volume to the abstract floral forms, making certain areas almost sculptural.

Artistic Description:

"Evanescence of Fire and Ash" is a poetic representation of the duality between destruction and rebirth. The flowers, both vaporous and incandescent, seem to emerge from a dark background, as if struggling against oblivion. The burnt orange evokes the heat of a vivid flame, contrasting with the spectral white petals that resemble an ephemeral veil, a trace of ash suspended in the air.

The choice of colors suggests tension between light and shadow, between the tangible and the elusive. The abstraction allows the viewer to interpret the artwork freely: is it a flourishing bloom or a gradual disappearance? This ambiguity gives the painting a strong emotional depth, characteristic of Iryna Malynovska’s expressive and lyrical style.