Olga Belopitova has an affinity for self-portraits and the depiction of her family. In the portraits she works with large brushes, the background is clean, there are no accessories. Her work captures the characteristic silhouette and builds a psychological and emotional reflection of the personality on the canvas.
With a background in the classical drawing with lines, shapes and light shadows and perspective reflected in some of her earlier works, such as ‘Portrait of my mother’, very soon she began to look for her place and her own style, as a result of which she appeared a whole gallery of portraits of young women who are mysterious, elegant and confident. As a portraitist, she captures the most characteristic of both age and individuality and radiance.
Her Landscapes with elements of melancholy are rather suggestive of certain states that poeticize the environment. Her infinite fields of low horizons, seascapes – visions, silhouettes of lonely and entwined three branches – all bring certain remoteness and rarely achieved contemplation.
The development of the nuances of the color, its pastiness and monochrome in separate sections are even more pronounced in the landscape. Everything is dominated by the sky, which is never clear, clear and cloudless, but on the contrary – colorful, stormy or saturated with the colors of the sunset. The sky unites not only the color composition, but also reflects a piece of the whole cosmos.
One of the favorite compositional techniques of the artist in the landscape is a short time in a strong perspective right opposite the viewer and the land with a very low horizon. Interesting for her is the contrast between the straight lines drawn by man and the strict geometry of the plowed or sown fields on one side and on the other the dome of the sky and the natural shapes of the hills and mountains.
This state, that everyone creates on their own, outside the hustle and the bustle of everyday life, is particularly evident in the urban landscapes. They are free of human presence in the city, in the same way as natural landscapes are free from unnecessary details as mountains and hills. She ignores the narrative to the minimum, remaining true to her inner senses.
In the urban landscape, the artist brings something original, using the technique of sketching, bringing it to the final version of the picture. She chooses a single element or group of buildings and the first and most basic impression of them to build a composition similar to a child’s play. But again the colour, now monochrome in the brown-yellow palette, now polychrome, with separate developed bright spots, now with a whitish snowfield and grey sky build the vision.
Olga Belipitova’s plastic expression has a developed element of contemplation, a tendency towards chromatism, elements of metaphysics and a sense of timelessness. The austerity of style, deep colour and brightness of melancholy surrounds all pictures.
The colour and its development are also the leaders in the still lifes of the artist, as again she avoids presenting the elements in detail and volume. In some cases they are only hinted at both in shape and colour and are minimally treated, the flowers are depicted in their characteristic range, but also summarized and in many cases on a contrasting background.