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The collage technique
can be considered as traditional. It was founded in cubism, and in 1914.
it was taken over by Italian futurists. Enrico Prampolini, Carlo Cara’s
student, had enriched the catalogue of materials adding the collage
technique, introducing fabrics and chemical materials, while “Dada”
offered an assortment of photos and postcards. Collage indeed is patched
from various materials that highlight the differences between hard and
soft, mono- and multi dimensional, transparent and dense characteristics.
Vlasta Pastuović Aleksić has courage to create in this technique that
exists almost for one century. For the painter the life has sense, which
proposes artistic creation. That sensation with the power of own
enthusiasm cerates spiritual shapes.
Vlasta tries to reconstruct the world that exists in reality into the new
nature named painting. The painting means expression of her inner soul
observations.
Vlasta avoids mimesis aiming to achieve more color expression and to
enable fantasy and imagination. Her collages are celebration in honor to
flora. She cuts out the painted silk shapes, and then patches them on the
hand made paper of different color and texture, which is tightly fastened.
Animated and attractive flower shapes rhythmically occur in horizontal
line, with stylized golden lines as bordures to the colored areas as an
opposite to the softer background. Dynamics and golden bordures evoke the
atmosphere of decorative secession. Crowns, flowers, leaves, stalks,
everything serves to decoration, with in some moments becomes an aim to
itself.
Harmony of color and shapes turn into the main visual object of her
compositions. That object is actually the media that connects our
attention to the shapes, that invite us to fathom them and to discover
their spirit. Thematical content has a variety of ornamental decorative
shapes. Fusion on planar and linear dimension occurs in an interesting way
during this opus. Drawing stylizations of luxurious flowers remind of the
visual art of knitted works.
Vlasta builds the fantasy and unreal lyrical world of crowns and flowers,
which pulse in their shapes and colors expressing the joyful moments of
existence. There is something festal and celebrating in those picturesque
crowns, memories of those times, when the scent of flowers were different
and more beautiful, and when the nature protectors wouldn’t complain
because you picked a flower in a forest. Vlasta gave to us this exhibition
like one big intimate bouquet of her feelings to understand the usable
value of non-usable.
Long ago, as the first man gave the first flower to a woman, he actually
rised beyond his basic instinct and brought the meaning of beauty to his
senses. Since that times the meaning of beauty became immanent to the
human being.
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