Stephen Andrews (artist) to his own experience of living with HIV. Andrews’ method of homemade colour separation evokes both the 19th-century painting technique of Pointillism: “in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image”, and the Ben-Day dots of mechanical printing. Beyond these references, Andrews’ uses the technique to, at the same time, evoke the alchemy of vision and break its mechanics down. As a result, Andrews creates works that “hover at legibility.” “The pixilation or dot matrix completely obscures details, making specifics impossible to see. We can't grasp the full picture.“ The series of rubbed-crayon
Spring is on the way (painting) painting was exhibited in 1988 on Vladimir Ovchinnikov posthumous exhibition in the Leningrad Union of Artists. In 1994, picture again was shown in the halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists at the exhibition of «The Paintings of 1950-1980s by Artists of the Leningrad School». In 2007 the painting «Spring is on the way» was reproduced and described among 350 art works by Leningrad artists in the book «Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School», published in Russian and English. Spring is on the way (painting) Spring is on the way is a painting by Vladimir Ivanovich Ovchinnikov ()(1911-1978), well-known Russian