My name is Bogdan Bryl and I was born in 1991 in Kharchiv, Ucraine. When I was a child I liked drawing very much. I sketched, drew anything that my heart desired. At first I studied in an Art High school, now I have finished the Fine Arts Academy in Turin, the town when I am living. In the same Academy I studied passionately the art of the great, illustrious artists of Renaissance like Leonardo da Vici, Michelangelo Buonaroti, Raffaello Sanzio and many others. First I studied the portraits, then I began copying the ones of the artists of the past, then I started painting the people’s faces from life. I love drawing and painting human portraits very much, but in this period my heart is beating for nature, landscapes exactly. In fact I started painting in the open-air. I was enchanted by painting in the open-air because in this way everything owns a power, a vitality, a vigour, an energy of the stroke which is not possible to obtain in an art studio. For example, while the artist who is painting in the atelier appeals repeatedly to academy conventions and to his own mannerism, the painter who works in the open-air is obliged to react to the continuous changes of the surrounding environment and of the light. In this period I am interested in the Impressionist painters like Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Gustave Caillebotte and in the ones who were trying to catch the fleeting moment: a glance, a landscape, a feeling. By this glance, the eye cannot perceive the richness of the details. Only if the artist takes his time and observes carefully, for example the houses or the crowd, the river or a face full of dignity, only in this way it is possible to live the experience deeply. The brain is quicker than the eyes, it erases the first impression and it replaces it with experiences and fantasy. I am interested in this first impression, in this freshness and in being able to see without referring to conventions or categories. When I open my eyes I see the colourful masses, the surfaces, the air mirroring the light and I capture this impression on the canvas.
The landscape is objectively one of the most glamorous genres of the History of Art, because the landscape is one of the most beautiful and perfect wonders which exists in its being. I like the challenge, through my personal way of looking at the landscape, of outlining the fleeting moment which is going to snatch a beam of that excellence.
“The continuous search for a light, a landscape, a colour, represents the painting climate of the young Ukrainian artist Bogdan Bryl, of his will to transmit sensations and subtle emotions on the canvas. A research that took shape and consistency during the studies at the Post Academy of Fine Arts, according to a vision d'insieme that is linked to the lesson of Monet, to a thoughtful interpretation of a group of trees or a meadow or a large sky, to a «reading» of the truth that becomes a narrative and measure of an inner sensibility. A sensitivity that allowed him to win the first prize at the Ex-Temporary Painting Competition in Pavarolo in 2018, with jury artist critic president Francesco Poli, accompanied by motivation «For the quality of painting, essentiality of the A painting, therefore, that gives the «stage» to the Royal Hunting Palace, in collaboration with the Pinacoteca albertina, to a series of realistic and delicate portraits expresses the sense of a personal and poetic representation.”
