Taras Loboda, Impressionist

Whether he is painting brooding beauties or phantom landscapes, Taras Loboda has a way of using color that seduces the senses.

The 46-year-old son of a famous artist, I.I. Loboda, Taras is one of three Ukrainian artists in the Alessandro galleries who draw their inspiration from the exciting world that has emerged in Prague, the Czech Republic’s “City of Spires.”

The others: Andrej Chernysh and Volodymir Fechyk.  Chernysh continues to live in the Ukraine, but Lobada and Fechyk moved permanently to Prague in 1993, and have become major leaders in the Czech cultural community.

Loboda’s women, with sad eyes and exaggerated Angelina Jolie lips, are usually adorned with vivid scarves, hats or floral concoctions, and command a long, intriguing examination.

His “lakescapes,” with reflections of  wild, colorful vegetation and flowers, suggest an  enchanting radiance that may be at the end of an elusive rainbow.

Loboda, born in Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine, is a classically trained graduate of the Institute of Art in Kiev who has found his place in the European post-modernist art space and consistently defends it.