Page 10 - Leon Oks : Dreamscape

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lingering, never-ending
OKS in the midst of the chronic,
debate about “What is

art?” we look at the art

of leon Oks and decide

it is art without any

Leon Oks’ dialogue controversy or question.

with the canvas is his paintings are a

a surprising one. He beautiful, sensual, luscious

fills the space with force of nature that warms

apparently amorphous, the eyes, the heart, and

barely distinguishable the soul. Whether it is

human shapes that the picturesque little

seem to coalesce into ukrainian village, forests

one another, using every of birch trees, sumptuous

inch of the surface. exaggerated nudes, or

Other paintings, such as bouquets of elegant

the country landscapes organic females clustered

and the well organized together on the campus,

and structured town the composition, the color,

scenes, breathe less the harmonic exuberance

tension than his of his paintings touch deep

compositions. Oks and true. he abstracts the

proves to be a versatile essence of his subjects in

artist who masters a a unique, whimsical way

variety of styles. and makes it his own.

Julie Robins greenberg

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