Katarina Vavrová is a very talented painter and graphic artist from Slovakia. Her work is highly poetical, imaginative, dreamlike and very suggestive. The quality of detail and draughtsmanship is extraordinarily well visible. The motives have their roots in literature and arts, historical events and persons. One can see traces from biblical events and from the time of the great discoveries, but also something from the outer world and something from the inner parts of the human soul. In her work the world of fantasy melds with reality, dream with actuality, and desire with experience. Typical elements in her work are people, animals, men with wings, some hats or headgear and something in red colour. In many of her pictures we see a lady with a sad contemplating expression on her face. The many prizes and awards received by Katarina Vavrová and the number of private an group exhibitions she has had, do prove that her art is of the highest quality. Vavrová is born in 1964 in Bratislava, Slovakia, and today she lives and works in Pezinok which is nearby native town. http://www.exlibris.sk/exl-vavrova.htm http://blog.daum.net/sooy0098/7706312 http://soyka62.livejournal.com/718107.html http://www.katarinavavrova.sk/
Redon was born into a prosperous Bordeaux family and began drawing at the age of ten. As a young child he suffered from epilepsy and was sent away to live with his Uncle on the family vineyard at Peyrelebade in the Medoc, where he experienced the “full solitude of the countryside”. It was perhaps here that he formed the fusion of the natural and the fantastic that characterised his work as a graphic artist.
Odilon Redon - Flowers
Brilliantly coloured butterflies and flowers, Buddha, and a small sailing boat were among recurrent themes in his later work.
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Odilon Redon - The Golden Cell date: 1892
Pintor de la imaginación y del subconsciente en plena hegemonía del naturalismo, contemporáneo de los impresionistas, con los que expuso en 1886, pero con los que no compartió la misma estética, Od…
Au Grand Palais Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916) Le rêve, sans aucun doute, mais plutôt côté cauchemar dans ses premières oeuvres - que l'artiste appelle d'ailleurs ses "Noirs" tant les sujets sont ténébreux, mystérieux et traités à l'encre ou au fusain.Exceptionnellement...
Pintor de la imaginación y del subconsciente en plena hegemonía del naturalismo, contemporáneo de los impresionistas, con los que expuso en 1886, pero con los que no compartió la misma estética, Od…
Odilon Redon's visions veer toward the realms of the strange, the dreamily dark, and the surreal.
Pintor de la imaginación y del subconsciente en plena hegemonía del naturalismo, contemporáneo de los impresionistas, con los que expuso en 1886, pero con los que no compartió la misma estética, Od…
Odilon Redon - fleurs [1905] Sotheby's
Odilon Redon, (1840-1916) French Symbolist painter, lithographer, and etcher of considerable poetic sensitivity and imagination, whose work developed along two divergent lines. His prints explore haunted, fantastic, often macabre themes and foreshadowed the Surrealist and Dadaist movements. His oils and pastels, chiefly still lifes with flowers, won him the admiration of Henri Matisse and other painters as an important colourist.
Since 1967, Richard Long has used walking as the basis of his artistic practice. What appears in the gallery may be a sculpture constructed from natural materials, a photograph of a sculpture made in situ, or a text, but none of these would be possible without the artist's walks: the experience of time and motion in the landscape finding its mode of expression and memorial.