Nikolay Kharchuk - Futuristic City Landscape
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Creating the cities of tomorrow has fascinated artists for thousands of years. As centres of civilisation, they’re often the cultural hubs that allow art styles to grown and evolve through exhibitions, public art, and architectural spaces. Since the turn of the 20th Century however we’ve been fascinated with dystopian cities - places that aren’t quite the perfect centres of civilisation that we’d like them to be. Nikolay’s image treads a fine line between dystopian and utopian - is it a perfect city, as evinced by the delicately painted translucent blue buildings, which one person in this painting’s Comments thread cleverly pointed out look like holograms, or is it an imperfect one out on the edge of a watery warm world. Note how the way the water is painted and the plane of perspective used in relation to the scale of the city suggest subtly that this city exists on the edge of a high and almost endless ocean. The refuelling platform suggests long journeys made by ships docking at cities like this, and also showcases the fantastic way hat Nikolay utilises that sci-fi staple, red lights in compositions overwhelmingly based on blues. Notice how far the light travels from its source, and look out for this effect in other works in his Gallery such as Scouting A New Planet.
And remember it’s Drawing Day 2009 tomorrow! Get doodling now! The person who submits the most pics tagged ‘Drawing Day’ as of midnight GMT tomorrow will win a lovely copy of Mastering Composition by Ian Roberts, published by North Light Books. What are you waiting for?
