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MOMENt, OIL ON CANvAS 30X40 IN. /76X101 CM. « In the midst of the chronic, lingering, never-ending debate about "What
SuMMER LEAVES, OIL ON CANvAS 30X40 IN. /76X101 CM. « is art?" we look at the art of Leon Oks and decide it is art without
ANtIcIPAtION, OIL ON CANvAS 36X24 IN. /91X60,5 CM. any controversy or question. His paintings are a beautiful, sensual,
DREAM, 2004 OIL ON CANvAS 30X24 IN. / 76X60 CM.
luscious force of nature that warms the eyes, the heart, and the soul.
His dreams and visions must haunt him, tearing him emotionally until Whether it is the picturesque little Ukrainian village, landscape
they are released upon the canvas, to be exorcised through color. One with birch trees, sumptuous exaggerated nudes, or bouquets of
must admire the suffering Leon must endure to achieve the “call” of elegant organic females clustered together on the campus, the
god through the hands of a master artist, and the result is mesmerizing, composition, the color, the harmonic exuberance of his paintings
when one stands in front of Leon’s finished work. touch deep and true. He abstracts the essence of his subjects in
a unique, whimsical way and makes it his own.
Paula C Huffman Julie Robins greenberg

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