"Inside the brick" by Bogdan Shiptenko

"Inside the brick" original fine art by Bogdan Shiptenko

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Jul 23, 2025

Price: $675

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Media: Stretched canvas, acrylic paints, brushes, palette

Size: 35x28 in

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Inside the brick is an original acrylic painting that captures a vivid figurative scene within a playful, abstract brick-inspired world. Featuring expressive characters and bold shapes, this canvas artwork explores human connection and creativity. A unique piece of people art that blends nostalgia with contemporary acrylic style.

•DESCRIPTION• 
Original acrylic painting on stretched canvas / Not print
Painting size: 28x35 inches (70x90 centimeters)
Artwork unframed

•MORE DETAILS•
Signed painting
Materials: Cotton paper, watercolor paints, oil pastels, palette, ballpoint pen

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Inside the brick is part of my ongoing series exploring the vibrant, constructed worlds of childhood imagination through the lens of contemporary figurative painting. This original acrylic artwork dives deep into a colorful, modular universe filled with expressive characters, playful architecture, and rhythmic composition.

The piece portrays a dynamic community of tiny figures — each caught mid-movement, mid-thought, mid-gesture — all surrounded by a geometric, building-block landscape that feels both playful and symbolic. The bright colors, structured forms, and spontaneous brushstrokes evoke a dreamlike realm, where the boundaries between design and emotion, order and chaos, are blurred.

This painting speaks to that intersection where childhood creativity meets adult reflection. It captures that familiar sense of wonder we all once knew when we built entire worlds from simple materials, allowing our stories to unfold freely. Now, as an artist, I return to those inner spaces — not with toys, but with paint and canvas — to reimagine those feelings in a more mature visual language.

Inside the brick invites the viewer to pause and look closely: Who are these little people? What are they doing? How do they relate to one another — and to us, the observers? Their quiet interactions within this vivid universe remind us of the beauty found in everyday connection, community, and constructed meaning.

Perfect for collectors who appreciate conceptual figurative art with a nostalgic undertone, this painting is a celebration of structure, emotion, and the stories we build — piece by piece — across a lifetime.

Figurative Art - I like to draw people in their habitat, this is a city, street scenes, intersections, cafes. In my watercolor paintings, I show how a person depends on the social environment and develops it.

Instagram Artist: @bogdan_shiptenko
© Copyright 2025 by Bogdan Shiptenko

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