▪ THE MAGICAL WORLD OF
HORSES (Miroslav Popović, The trotting
almanac of Serbia, "KAS" art, 2002.)
In a mysterious world of
paintings portraits have always been the greatest challenge of all; silent
guardians at the gates of the forbidden garden. Human nature can be seen both in
the eyes and on the face of a man. The portrait is deprived of physical movement
but what makes a portrait a masterpiece is the spiritual inner world that is
already reflected on our faces and in our eyes for the whole eternity. The
invention of camera has made the portrait painters almost disappear from the
world of art.
In the last century, in which the spiritual was transformed into the material, it seemed that the ultimate challenge to paint the intangible attracts artists less and less. And then, at the end of the 20th century, a young woman decided to start painting portraits of horses. Her name is Suzana Stojanović and she has been living in the world of magical realism of winged Pegasus and proud Bukefal for years.
"A horse has always been the inspiration for the artists. Leonardo da Vinci himself said that not only painting a horse was a challenge, but that it also took a lot of courage to accept it - Suzana tells us. Up to know she has painted more than 250 oils on canvas. She is using the oil pastel technique at the moment which won her the admiration of Dragan Malešević Tapi himself.
"It's done on the cardboard, colours don't mix and not the slightest mistake is allowed. The work keeps on for days and nights, but my love towards horses makes me forget my great effort and hard work. A horse can be beautiful but if you don't give it your heart and soul it will never look alive in the painting, it will only remain "beautiful".
Full of life and beautiful. Suzana's portraits are horse psychology encyclopedia of its kind. Within vivid frames various moods of these long-legged animals are being captured by using a range of different colours - something that the greatest experts at the horses' nature only feel intuitively but are often unable to express it. Suzana's paintings can do that. It seems as if her horses spoke of their secret inner world which was galloping just beside our daily life and the world of oblivion - familiar to all of us, but indistinct as the thud of horses' hooves in the blue distance, in the evening...
In the last century, in which the spiritual was transformed into the material, it seemed that the ultimate challenge to paint the intangible attracts artists less and less. And then, at the end of the 20th century, a young woman decided to start painting portraits of horses. Her name is Suzana Stojanović and she has been living in the world of magical realism of winged Pegasus and proud Bukefal for years.
"A horse has always been the inspiration for the artists. Leonardo da Vinci himself said that not only painting a horse was a challenge, but that it also took a lot of courage to accept it - Suzana tells us. Up to know she has painted more than 250 oils on canvas. She is using the oil pastel technique at the moment which won her the admiration of Dragan Malešević Tapi himself.
"It's done on the cardboard, colours don't mix and not the slightest mistake is allowed. The work keeps on for days and nights, but my love towards horses makes me forget my great effort and hard work. A horse can be beautiful but if you don't give it your heart and soul it will never look alive in the painting, it will only remain "beautiful".
Full of life and beautiful. Suzana's portraits are horse psychology encyclopedia of its kind. Within vivid frames various moods of these long-legged animals are being captured by using a range of different colours - something that the greatest experts at the horses' nature only feel intuitively but are often unable to express it. Suzana's paintings can do that. It seems as if her horses spoke of their secret inner world which was galloping just beside our daily life and the world of oblivion - familiar to all of us, but indistinct as the thud of horses' hooves in the blue distance, in the evening...
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▪ MAGIJSKI SVET
HATOVA (Miroslav Popović, Kasački Almanah Srbije,"KAS" art,
2002.)
U tajanstvenom slikarskom vilajetu portreti oduvek behu
kraljevski izazov, nemi čuvari na kapijama zabranjenog vrta. Oči su ogledalo
duše a lice ogledalo čovečije. Portret je lišen fizičkog pokreta, ali, onaj teg,
sav od retkog dragog kamenja, na terazijama vrednovanja slikarske veštine, koji
čini portret vrhunskim umećem, jeste - unutrašnji Pokret ili dijalektički damar
Unutarnjeg, duševnog sveta koji se vec čitavu večnost ogleda. Na licu. U
očima.Pronalazak fotografskog aparata i filmske kamere učinio je da portretisti gotovo izblede na svetskoj slikarskoj mapi. U prošlom veku, u kojem je duh potonuo u materiju, činilo se da sveti poziv u lov na Neuhvatljivo sve manje privlači umetnike.
A onda, pred kraj dvadesetog veka, jedna mlada žena odluči da slika portrete konja. Njeno ime je Suzana Stojanović, i već godinama živi u svetu magijskog realizma krilatog Pegaza i ponosnog Bukefala.
"Konj je večita inspiracija za umetnike. Sam Leonardo da Vinči je rekao da je izazov raditi konja i da je potrebna velika hrabrost upustiti se u taj izazov." - pripoveda Suzana. Do sada je naslikala preko 250 ulja na platnu. Trenutno radi tehniku uljani pastel pred kojom je skinuo kapu i jedan Dragan Malešević Tapi.
"Radi se na kartonu, boje se ne mešaju, nije dopuštena ni najmanja greška. Radi se danima, noćima, ali, ljubav prema konjima čini da zaboravim na veliki napor i uložen trud. Konj moze da bude lep, ali, ako mu ne date srce i dušu on nikada neće biti živ na slici, on će ostati samo lep."
Živi i lepi. Suzanini portreti svojevrsna su enciklopedija psihologije konja. Unutar živopisnih ramova uhvaćena je bogata paleta raspoloženja vitkonogih ljubimaca, ono što i najveći poznavaoci konjske duše slute i osećaju ali često ne mogu to saznanje da saopšte. Suzanine slike to mogu. Njeni konji kao da govore o svom unutrašnjem, tajnom svetu, koji galopira tik pored našeg sveta svakodnevlja i zaborava - svima nama blizak, ali nejasan kao topot mnogih konjskih nogu, predveče, u plavoj daljini.
