Sinphony

(oil painting by Jaisini)

Reviewed by Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb

The artist engages us in a mysterious arena of the inner process of creation. The nature of creative work is such that it is unanalyzable. It's a higher activity of mind when unexplained energy of inspiration awakes and rises from the lower stage to higher one.

When the mind opens the enlightenment comes to the artist, his creativity reaches its top level. Then, the artist is almost detached from his body and mind. The only existing thing left is the produced art. The artist is experiencing the spiritual growth. He even feels the phenomenon withdrawal of his soul from the physical body. The condition of trance is shown in Sinphony by an amazing transformation of the musician's genders. Jaisini is able to unveil hidden mysteries of creation, visually. Sinphony depicts an idea, that the truth of art creation is rarely pure and never simple. The perfection is a result of an inborn gift increased by a 'hard labor.' An artist, who felt the impetus, can never be the same person again. The recollection of his experience will become a new source of inspiration. A circle incloses. When the artist awakes from his creative ecstasy, he thinks that nothing looks the same as it did before. As one cannot communicate what sugar is to someone who's never tasted sweet, or to a man born blind what colors are, so it's impossible to describe this experience of high artistic inspiration. But, Jaisini does it.

The nude vulnerability of the musicians' bodies is aimed to uncover the truth about their performance in its final beauty, when hardships are concealed. Looking at the painting, I sense a strong aesthetic power radiating from the unseen author. It seems that Jaisini has poured out all of his inspiration and temperament on the canvas, counterbalancing the overflow of colors with graphical values. The picture could be the prize for its creator. For all that he had sacrificed in his life to be able to fully integrate into his art. The artist may not be able to explain how and why he could do this, looking with astonishment at his own work. He may try to understand, to look for a reason that may exist in a form of a live sound of symphonic orchestra. The composition is ignited by the conductor's spread hands. His right hand embraces a nude woman with black hair and red mouth. The conductor's black figure seems to carry her nude torso.

A central cello player is a naked blond with spread legs. Her right hand holds a bow that is pointed straight between her legs. And, her left hand holds the cello handle that reminds a long penis. The keen impression of possible masturbation here creates a vibration of musical ecstasy. To the right from the central figure of cello player, there is a violinist in a black attire. Even though he is a man, his lower body is naked and has the female sexual features. This signifies the metamorphosis of creation. The absolute black color at the upper right corner counteracts with the flesh color of bodies. It creates a gap of macrocosm in the picture's bursting color composition.

Sinphony creates a system of multiple levels of impression. Layer after layer, it opens the mind for a new vision, freed from all limitations. The picture's space expands. The picture is an independent reality with its own absolute point of view.

Layer after layer, the painting is perceived and the spectator penetrates in art and feels the pleasure in its peerless delight. The same way as the artist before, the viewer now feels that "nothing looks to him as it did before; that he is awaken for the first time."

Modern scientific thinking has reached a stage where physicists have been forced to abandon the ordinary worlds of the so-called sense perception. In the works of Jaisini, we learn about the complex creative principles which combine the known and the unknown knowledge. Every Jaisini's painting has a universal sense and the unquestionable beauty.

The artist perfects his senses and, therefore, is able to uncover more reality.

Our common senses delude us by bringing knowledge that changes often. That is why the great work of art is so valuable, as a last piece of unchanged harmony. Progress may bring more inventions and machinery. There is only a narrow field of the human emotions that cannot be affected by the changing world. Those are the eternal questions of human nature that will always be asked by some inquisitive minds.

Every work of Jaisini opens those sometimes dark mysteries of human soul. In Sinphony, Jaisini engages sensuality to successfully animate classical music. It is new and frivolous.

It explores that narrow field of the emotions that will always touch and affect human minds. Sinphony has inspired Jaisini to continue to work on the subject and create a series.


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