Meditations on the Sacred and the Profane by Yuri Lev

“I’ve traditionally engaged the notion of what I call ‘The Divine Landscape.’ The term “landscape” is more of a figurative rather than literal description. This body of work also includes portraits. I use the tools of abstraction, fantasy and imagination in order to point to something bigger, to show the sublime within the mundane, to record the beauty available to our ordinary daily vision which is so easy to overlook, or to imply a greater truth. I subscribe to a quote from John Keats’ marvelous poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, which goes as follows: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all Ye need to know.' “

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