CRITICS   

Stanko Špoljarić  /  Leo Slijepčević  /  Mladen Mitar

From the local shade, that diligently describes the shape, to the transition in the freedom of color outburst, where the color dynamically denotes the scene, Vlasta still remains behind the borders respecting the classical ways. The landscape of Vlasta Pastuović characterizes a kind of discipline, inner order of all segments of the painting but they don’t disturb her imagination when she brings excitement into the “regularity”, when every painting is a new challenge and that every maybe even familiar landscape seems as new. Layered construction and a hint of the painting atmosphere contribute to the credibility of the painting where a landscape is captured in it’s width or being “zoomed” in some of it’s fragments. This is not only reality itself, but the reflect of the author’s feelings, leading us straight to her emotional ecstasy.

Stanko Špoljarić, historian of arts,

From the Introduction for the exhibition »LANDSCAPES«
»Otvoreno učilište« ( Public open institution) in Zagreb, 1998.