Mykola Bilous created a revolutionary method of harmonizing colors, known as the inversion of colors, in the theory of colors. Regardless of the topics, as a post-media artist, Mykola used the basic tone, a mix of three main colors.
Mykola Bilous created a revolutionary method of harmonizing colors, known as the inversion of colors, in the theory of colors. Regardless of the topics, as a post-media artist, Mykola used the basic tone, a mix of three main colors, red, yellow, and blue, as a shadowy background, which gives harmonization to the additional colors, like green, orange, etc.
His level of panting virtuosity was so incredibly high that in some artworks he achieved the end product of shape with just main colors, like using basic tones, blue and yellow. Because of the monumentalism of his method, — the importance of shadow as the mix of colors, and where the lights are, there the colors work, — always having the back air — Mykola Bilous insists that he succeed in combining two different artistic dimensions, sculptural and optical; with this said, his artworks same time flat and volumetric.
Within his method, the basic tone is the bridge connecting the colors of a plot together, and colors ought to be drawn as a partially transparent layer, at once — in fact, that resembles an ideal acrylic calligraphy, which can’t be corrected or covered afterward, so the transparency of artwork and its whole harmony of execution would be lost. Therefore, before every single big acrylic on canvas painting was executed, the artist had to make an exercise on paper — these sketches or studies — as the initial visual images of following big canvases. Mykola Bilous is said to be a post-media artist, but he is actually also a post-color artist, hyper-emphasizing the importance of pure color, and even can be considered a post-artistic painter, as he’s undoubtedly the most important and most gifted Ukrainian artist of XXI century, of the few of such in the world, and, as for XX century, he’s probably just behind the genius of the pure form, Kazymyr Malevich.
As Malevich, at the beginning of the XX century, deconstructed the visible and rich shape from 100% to the zero of shapes, in visual arts, so did Mykola Bilous — moving in another direction — ascending all visible shapes in his artworks from the zero of shape to 100% of post-color visibility again. The artist’s resolution, artistry of composition, the overall balance of the whole shape, and the decision to move behind pure colors themselves with the chosen method are what truly make him post-color and post-artistic. Upon all that said, Bilous for a significant part of his artistic career worked with the TSEKH gallery (Kyiv / Vilnius), his artworks belong now to the most significant art collections and are gladly welcomed by all prestigious museums, galleries, and contemporary art fairs to get exhibited. I have more personal contemporary art stories to tell.
