A city view

The European recognition came to Abram Manevych in 1913, after his triumphal exhibition in the Paris Gallery of Durand-Ruel. Manevych’s original art assimilated plein-air searches of Impressionism and colour planes of Art Nouveau, plasticity of its linear rhythms. In his compositions trees often become dominant. The expressive intertwining of their stems and branches that creates almost a phantasmagorical arabesque design embodies the idea of the perpetual motion of nature’s vital forces.