Oleh Minko is a Ukrainian nonconformist artist representing "hermetic" art. He created images with a double meaning, where he narrated the theme of the work through the symbols of objects and human gestures. The style of his paintings is influenced by ancient Ukrainian iconography and European modernists: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Giorgio de Chirico. Oleg Minko's works are kept in state museums of national importance in Ukraine and private collections in Ukraine and abroad. The artist had personal exhibitions in London, Helsinki, Brussels, Copenhagen, Washington, and Vilnius.
The quintessence of the late period of Oleg Minko's work is a reassessment of values, reflections on society's flaws, and the tragic fate of the twentieth century. "Sitting Man" is a semiotic work full of many signs. The artist divides the composition into two parts. In the background: a broken column, a red shadow, and figures in the distance whose outlines refer to the biblical characters of Adam and Eve. Ahead of him is a man pointing at a clock, a symbol of the perishability of time. The artist seems to be warning, testifying that humanity is close to its destruction.
