Finally I am at home for the whole week and next week we might go to travel again. 

**It is the 18th Artchallenge and we had 20 participants!!!!!!! 
Thank you, everyone, for the great entries!!!!!!!!!** 

Our invited judge and a sponsor was a great person @lpfaust! 
I have special feelings to this guy and I am very thankful for everything he does for me and Steemit community! 

**Participants should give an interpretation to a surreal painting of Rafal Olbinski.**

![enter image description here](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-npjJSGTjImQ/WXYsAo8FItI/AAAAAAAASxc/zeBmKAT5qkApeXIC-XTgDxboK0JM4bO0ACLcBGAs/s0/1.jpg "1.jpg")
[Rafal Olbinski](https://artchive.ru/artists/10942~Rafal_Olbinskij/works/294578~Nevinnost_uchtivykh_namerenij)

**AND THE WINNERS ARE:**

**THE THIRD PRIZE (20 TRAIL + 5 SBD) GOES TO:** @torem-di-torem 

***@lpfaust 's comment***

> It most closely mirrors my own interpretation

[ARTQUEST-TRAIL#18 (ARTchallenge)](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@torem-di-torem/artquest-trail-18-artchallenge)

> **Values ​​...**
> 
> People in the big city. You ask, but where do they have to be? Money
> is there, in the city, and modern people are always in pursuit of
> money. And these people, by tradition, decide to start a family. And
> they are already running together. And if they run, they are in
> "soap". And now, it would seem, there is a happy young family: nice
> evenings together, laughable breakfasts in pajamas ... But it was not
> there! It turns out that they are not just in pursuit of money. They
> are in pursuit of a dream! Moreover, each of them runs after his own
> dream. They are so passionate about this pursuit that there is nobody
> to sit on the third chair ... After all, the child is an additional
> expense. They settled on a "temporary" version. Here he is-he
> stretched himself imposingly on the floor. So, what is next? And then
> there will be another attempt to discuss the problem. And it turns out
> that a new value in the form of "the current situation" is added to
> the concept of a family in a big city. And, as a rule, they grow,
> these situations, like mushrooms after the rain. And these two more
> recently loving each other runners wrinkle their forehead for the last
> time, as if they could slam the door harder. They again in the hope
> that among the "sea" of people on the street they will easily catch up
> with a new "option" for living together. They will not catch up ...
> 
> And so I'm wondering, what if a modern person is catching up with his
> ... humanity? Maybe then he will not have to chase a mirage?

**THE SECOND PRIZE (30 TRAIL + 8 SBD) GOES TO:**@jsock

***@lpfaust 's comment***

> The part which grabbed me the most was the mention about only the woman casts a shadow

[ARTCHALLENGE # 18 contest. Table - window](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@jsock/artchallenge-18-contest-table-window)

> The two people we see are a loving couple who long for and love each
> other. In the room there is only the woman, the woman is projecting
> the image of the man through her mind. The woman is really in the room
> because she casts a shadow, the man does not.
> 
> From the glass of the table you can see the place where the man is, a
> place far from his beloved, he is at night she at noon. On the other
> side of the table is the man in a room looking through the glass of a
> table where you can see a city at dusk, in his room is projected
> through his mind the image of his beloved, while they think about the
> moment of his reunion.

**THE FIRST PRIZE (50 TRAIL + 12 SBD) GOES TO:**@goldenroom

***@lpfaust 's comment:*** 

> I loved that interpretation and the train of thought

[Art Challenge #18 - Entry 1](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@goldenroom/art-challenge-18-entry-1)

> Okay this one's DEEP :D Not that his other stuff isn't but I really
> had to take my time with this one because there's so many different
> layers going on here. At least to me.
> 
> In general, the message seems to be about how people become unable to
> see the beautiful and interesting things that surround them because
> they're too focused on other things. These two people look like
> they're contemplating or watching the world below them almost like
> looking at a chess board or some other type of game and deciding on
> their next move. Many of us know that we can sometimes become immersed
> in fantasy worlds where we feel more in control or using it as an
> escape from our own world.
> 
> I see a range in different ways the table world is perceived by each
> individual. We have the business-like man who's very studious and
> focused, and the curious woman/girl who just wants to see what happens
> next. They don't even seem to know the other is sitting there. There
> is also an empty chair which looks pushed back from the table like
> someone just left. To me, it suggests that this person was originally
> part of the group at the table but chose to leave. They had no
> interest in staying inside this room looking down on other peoples
> lives, or controlling or scrutinizing or wondering about them. They
> had more of an interest in getting out and experiencing their own
> world. Maybe it was the large window they were facing that helped them
> see just what was outside waiting for them.
> 
> Even the cat is a symbol of indifference to having such control or
> distraction from their actual surroundings. In fact, it seems more
> intent on looking at me scrutinizing this painting suggesting that
> it's more aware of it's surroundings than the two people are.
> 
> I find the placement of the spires/needles of the buildings very
> interesting. From little I know about architecture I know that spires
> on churches are symbolic of reaching to heaven and being as close to
> God as possible. But, in non religious terms, it's also a symbol of
> man-kind reaching for something higher and greater in general. To be
> the best, the tallest, the greatest. How ironic that, one, these two
> choose to be huddled around a table watching a world too small for
> them to fit in when they can be out an about achieving great things in
> their own world. Maybe the people in the table world aspire to be
> close to them and what it feels like to be a god and therefore,
> ironically, are also looking the wrong direction and down into their
> own table worlds? And maybe there are people above this world and
> looking down on the spires just outside the window, and so on. Like
> one of those infinite mirror images you see when you face two mirrors
> together!
> 
> The grass is always greener on the other side, or so they say. But
> really, life is what you make it. Experience the reality you live in
> and take notice of the art and beauty and other things you can
> actually immerse yourself in rather than being a bystander or observer
> of other peoples lives.
> 
> The cat knows...cat's always know ;)


**CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!!!** 

**THANKS TO EVERYBODY FOR PARTICIPATING!!!**

**SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR JUDGE and SPONSOR  @lpfaust!!!!!**

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I already have an interesting picture for the ARTCHALLENGE #19 and it will differ from previous ones but I don't know about deadline as I might travel next week. But I plan to make the announcement tomorrow. 

You can see the previous artchallenges here: 

[Winners of Artquest #17](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-17-announcement-invited-judge-throughwindows-with-his-own-painting-for-interpretation) 6 participants
[Winners of Artquest #16](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-16-announcement-invited-judge-nature-sauvage) 4 participants
[Winners of Artquest #15](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-15-announcement-invited-judges-paolobeneforti-and-silviabeneforti)15 participants
[Winners of Artquest #14](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-14-announcement-invited-judge-ezzy) 24 participants
[Winners of ARTquest#13](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-13-announcement-invited-judge-lpfaust) 10 participants
[Winners of Artquest#12](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-12-announcement-invited-judge-ezzy) 10 participants
[Winners of Artquest#11](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-11-announcement-invited-judge-surpassinggoogle) 9 participants
[Winners of Artquest#10](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-10-announcement-invited-judge-looftee-we-can-no-longer-dream-we-are-dying) 13 participants
[Winners of Artquest#9](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-9-announcement-drawing-of-paolo-beneforti-invited-judges-paolo-and-silvia-beneforti) 10 participants
[Winners of Artquest#8](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artquest-8-announcement) 10 participants 
[Winners of Artchallenge#7](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-7-announcement) 6 participants
[Winners of Artchallenge#6](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@aksinya/winners-of-artchallenge-6-new-theme-for-artchallenge-7-announcement-no-need-to-be-an-artist-or-an-art-expert-to-join-this) 7 participants 
[Winners of Artchallenge#5](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@aksinya/winners-of-artchallenge-5-new-theme-for-artchallenge-6-announcement-no-need-to-be-an-artist-or-an-art-expert-to-join-this) 8 participants
[Winners of Artchallenge#4](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@aksinya/winners-of-artchallenge-4-new-theme-announcement-no-need-to-be-an-artist-or-an-art-expert-to-join-this-artchallenge) 9 participants 
[Winners of Artchallnege#3](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@aksinya/winners-of-artchallenge-3-new-theme-announcement-no-need-to-be-an-artist-or-an-art-expert-to-join-this-artchallenge) 11 participants
[Winners of Artchallenge#2](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@aksinya/winners-of-artchallenge-2-new-theme-announcement-no-need-to-be-an-artist-or-an-art-expert-to-join-this-artchallenge) 6 participants
[Winners of ARTchallenge#1 ](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@aksinya/winners-of-artchallenge-1-new-theme-announcement-no-need-to-be-an-artist-or-an-art-expert-to-join-this-artchallenge) 14 participants


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**Join me on a quest to discover the treasures of beautiful artworks!** 

Always yours, @aksinya.