HIDING DISSAPPEARING
Oil on canvas
60 x 70 cm
Not For Sale
META ŠOLAR, selected by Anamarija Stibij Šajn. "HIDING DISSAPPEARING", oil on canvas, 70x60 cm. Academic painter Meta Šolar remains within the framework of preserving and upgrading the classical artistic tradition, and at the same time it represents the foundation for her to enter the spheres of creating a modern version of the new figurative art. The source of her creative perception is in herself, so the chosen actresses are female figures. He depicts them in a realistic, recognizable form. He veristically follows bodily givens and convincingly models their appearance. In individual solutions, however, it captures it only in a fluid outline, partially simplifying and flattening it. He always gives them in presentational clarity. With their design and color perfection, they come to life on the stage, but then they are covered, veiled, dressed in various, sometimes even unusual "veils". Above all, it "hides" faces, which are the strongest part of the human image. He puts on "masks", spectacles, pulls ribbons over his eyes, covers them with a painting fabric of various patterns, from geometrically sharp to organic, lush blooms, partially covers them with clothes, presents them from the back or as a reflection in a mirror. It rips them out of the context of reality and makes them mysterious, unknown, and unreal. The concealment does not only include the aforementioned gadgets, but such solutions can be distinctly artistic. An important segment of the covering is also played by rhythmically selected layers of color traces. These flood the faces or body parts, and in some solutions they capture the background or the entire image field and give it a special atmosphere. In such traces, we feel the manifestation of the primal pulse of painting micro structures, and perhaps they even lead us close to the perceptions of modern digital technology. Segmented lines of color layers are an important artistic-expressive and at the same time content-message means, so they not only obscure, but give the scenes liveliness and turn them into pulsating performances. The paintings are media pure, painterly primordial and are created in the noble technique of oil on canvas. Art richness arises from various ways and approaches of visual visualization, ranging from thoughtful to relaxed traces. The author is close to the variety of colors, swears by the author's color evaluation, the liveliness and power of individual color denominators, and uses dynamic and even unusual color confrontations. Meta Šolar also deals with the phenomenon of the viewer's gaze with message figures. It depends on him how open-hidden, classical- (post) modernist, and above all depersonalized beauties come to life.