Woman in nature 1975

This is Hryhorii Havrylenko's "Woman in Nature," a drawing from an unknown date, currently held in a private collection. Immediately striking is the rigorous use of hatching, which creates a textural density across the figure and the landscape. The consistent diagonal lines, rendered in ink, unify the woman and her environment, blurring the boundary between figure and ground. The woman's geometric features and simplified form, combined with the abstract rendering of nature, challenge traditional portraiture. It appears to engage with structuralist ideas, suggesting that meaning is derived from the underlying structures that constitute reality. The semiotic reading indicates a potential disruption of conventional representations, prompting an active interpretation of reality. Havrylenko destabilizes the subject, and the natural world becomes a field of visual and conceptual play. The drawing's formal qualities invite us to see beyond the surface, engaging with the structural elements that constitute its meaning and broader cultural implications.