CRITICS

Stanko Špoljarić  /  Branka Arh  /  Mladen Mitar

In the content of Vlasta’s painting there is a culmination of the beauty, beauty that is supported by material and color. Silk and golden lines rise in the new level of existence, where is no place for harshness, roughness, or anxiety. The poetical atmosphere lives in a lyrical connotation of the work. The above mentioned ornamental forms are the part of that personal world. Slightly geometrical shapes (angular or round shapes) border on each other or move freely trough the space, connected with the tangle of lines. Elegance and delicacy of visual arts are expressed in the refined moves that reminds of secession sophistication. Vlasta Pastuović has achieved the right balance between dynamics of the visual art surface and the possible idealized world (where the singing of the birds is the loudest sound that can be heard), balanced visual artistic vitality and stopped time.

Stanko Špoljarić, historian of arts,

from the Introduction  for the »Tree in imaginary garden«
in the library »Bogdan Ogrizović« in Zagreb, 1999.