Yaseneva Sveta - Who had a drink

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“WHO HAD A DRINK?”

Original painting. Acrylic on canvas.

This work is painted by me in acrylic on canvas. I use a multi-layered technique with dense brushstrokes and focused color accents to enhance the grotesque quality and expressive intensity of the figures.

The composition brings together four figures inspired by 20th-century artists — Dalí, Basquiat, Van Gogh, and Picasso. These are not portraits, nor an attempt at physical likeness. My interest lies in states of mind — different forms of creative thinking brought into a single visual space.

Each figure holds a drink, which leads to the question posed by the title: “Who had a drink?”. The answer is intentionally left open. The drink is not a literal detail, but a sign of pause — a brief suspension between thought and action.

Although the figures stand side by side, they do not interact directly. They share the same moment, yet remain within their own inner rhythm. I deliberately use grotesque expression and distorted proportions to remove the distance between legendary names and the human presence behind them.

For me, this work is an ironic look at geniuses as living people caught in a moment of pause. Without mythology or elevation. What matters here is not legend, but equality within a brief silence between thoughts.