The Painting Series of Vladimir Riabinin
This series of paintings explores the essence of legends passed down to us from time immemorial, in which the ancients embedded deep philosophical meanings, secret knowledge, and accounts of events they witnessed. The series is an ongoing project, with new paintings being added as they are completed.
MAIDENS PRAISING SPRING
Oil, canvas. 40" x 30". $3,900 USD
Our world is cyclical. Just as the seasons succeed one another, turning in a circle back to the beginning of rebirth, only to reach their end and die once more, so too does life on Earth pass through a succession of deaths and rebirths. And no matter what happens, everyone celebrates the dawn of rebirth. Even the divine maidens, each entering her reign in her own season, await the arrival of spring. Because for them, too, it brings the hope of new life.
Our world is cyclical. Just as the seasons succeed one another, turning in a circle back to the beginning of rebirth, only to reach their end and die once more, so too does life on Earth pass through a succession of deaths and rebirths. And no matter what happens, everyone celebrates the dawn of rebirth. Even the divine maidens, each entering her reign in her own season, await the arrival of spring. Because for them, too, it brings the hope of new life.
SHAMANS RESURRECTING THE EARTH
Oil, canvas. 40" x 30". $3,900 USD
When the world dies once again in the wake of a global cataclysm and the Earth is reduced to a lifeless expanse, the time of the celestial shamans arrives. Emerging from hidden dimensions, they begin their rituals, calling forth the very first sprouts of new life—sprouts from which something unknown and beautiful will eventually bloom. But by then, the celestial shamans will be gone. Having completed their work, they quietly vanish back into their invisible world, waiting patiently for the day their help will be needed once more.
When the world dies once again in the wake of a global cataclysm and the Earth is reduced to a lifeless expanse, the time of the celestial shamans arrives. Emerging from hidden dimensions, they begin their rituals, calling forth the very first sprouts of new life—sprouts from which something unknown and beautiful will eventually bloom. But by then, the celestial shamans will be gone. Having completed their work, they quietly vanish back into their invisible world, waiting patiently for the day their help will be needed once more.