Suzana`s skills to mark even the most hidden details leads the observers into dilemma whether there is a painting or a photography. Her preoccupation are horses - beautiful, natural and intelligent. Even as a child she had a desire to have her own horses, but all this remained only an imagination and a dream that did not come true. This is the reason now why she makes them alive in the paintings - the paintings that show how big is her love for them. Suzana expresses herself through realism and hyperrealism because she thinks that is it the only way to make alive the subject of painter interest on the cardboard or painting canvas.
Many of individual exhibitions has marked Suzana`s return to painting scene. The exhibitions were all around the country: Belgrade (Geca Kon Gallery), Vranje (Public University Gallery), Vladičin Han (Cultural Centre Gallery), Pančevo, Niš. The exhibition in Vranje was visited by between 4 and 5 thousand people. With her exhibitions Suzana gifted her public one magical world of horses, the world of nature and beauty that was forgotten a little, and that was presented in two different techniques: pastel and oil on canvas painting. Her exhibitions have been visited by thousands of people. The book of impressions is full of strong expressions. It is not unusual that people loose their breath. All of them are amazed and simply stoned when standing before her paintings.
Suzana Stojanović stopped the scenes of her hyperrealistic way of painting in the right moment: in the moment that allows us to see pride, strength, beauty, mildness, defiance and prudence. The world of horses is heavenly part of the mankind. God was merciful and gifted us with this kind of beauty.
Suzana`s paintings are one unique horse psychology encyclopedia. Within the lively frames one rich palette of the moods of slim-legged pets is caught, the things that the biggest experts of horse soul can foresee and also feel but often cannot express that knowledge. Suzana`s painting can do that. As if her horses were speaking about their inner, secret world that gallops by our world of everyday life and forgetness - familiar to all of us, but unclear as a clatter of many horse feet, in the nightfall into blue distance...
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▪ Denis Peterson, hyperrealist painter, dA Journal,
2007.
By way of introduction, we were recently graced with the new arrival of a well known and accomplished artist - Suzana Stojanović.
Suzana is someone I have known outside these pages as a friend and as a truly masterful hyperrealist painter. Her beautiful work can at times be extreme, and it is always compelling.
I recommend that you take the time to get to know her and her captivating work, as she has much to share with all of us.
Just click on a painting to connect... and send her a special hello from me!
Suzana is someone I got to know about a year ago and at that time I was drawn into her stunning work. Not unlike some of the masters you and I have discussed, Suzana's paintings just keep on bringing you back for more, not only on the basis of technical merit; they demonstrate a driving and robust visual declaration of her love for her subjects. It is at once a celebration of those living subjects that comes through all of her work with consistent brilliance and passion.
Suzana is in a league of her own.
Her sensitive and compelling work is an admirable reflection of her as a person.
You are very welcome. I look forward to multiple galleries on dA, as all of her work will certainly go into one of mine if that happens...
From my perspective, Suzana's work is as good as it gets.
And you will notice that her work, all of it, shares a common thread of humanity, passion and dignity...the veritable mark of a true artist.
She is outstanding, not only in her brilliant ability to render but her compositional and lighting techniques drive the point home that she cares deeply about her subjects.
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Attributive "realistic" is a word linking the artists and writers longing to build new connection between work of art and reality. In the middle of 19th century three directions of realism appeared: landscape realism - school of Barbizon in France, socialistic and academic realism. Painters are going back to folk themes, separated from painting scene for the long time. Courbet painting "The Stone Breakers" marks the beginning of realism. The work of Gustave Courbet lies upon one strict respect of world reality that surrounds the artists. The master of realism declares himself that he wants to represent "real and existing things"...
Complete obedience to "realistic" frequently is used in the case of certain artists like Rosa Bonheur, Jules Breton, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Leon Lhermitte, Hungarian Mihaly Munkacsi is used in photographic way. In the second half of 19th century the whole one part of western arts lives in realism - German painters: Adolf von Menzel, Wilhelm Leibl, Belgium: Constantin Meunier (sculptor and painter), American: Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, in England: Ford Madox Brown, in Russia: Iliya Repin and Vasily Perov...
Realism is present and keeps on in 20th century. Photographic precise hyperrealism (photorealism) appears in USA in the end of the `60s that was announced by Edward Hopper and Charles Sheeler. Hyperrealism (photorealism) continues with realistic tradition of Edward Hopper and other 20th century American painters. The most famous representatives of this stream in plastic arts, characterized by almost photographic interpretation of the seen matter are: Malcolm Morley with his huge postcards, Richard Estes with urban shop-windows, Robert Cottingham with light boards, Don Eddy and Ralph Goings with cars, Chuck Close with exquisite magnified photos with personal id regulations.
