Unique hyperrealism art gallery by Suzana Stojanović Suza contemporary Serbian hyperrealist artist. Original art created in various techniques including oil on canvas paintings, pencil and oil pastel drawings of horses, Arabian horse portraits, landscape, people portraits; equine artwork; hyperrealism paintings & drawings, classical realism fine art. Enigmatic short stories about life based on different life experience, temptations, events, myths, legends, mysteries and fairy tales; books.

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» The hyperreal world of Suzana Stojanović (Denis Peterson, internationally recognized first generation hyperrealist painter whose early New Realist genre - Soft Focus Realism - was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, 2007.)

» It's all relative (Momčilo Zlatanović, PhD, the professor of literature at the University of Pedagogy and the University of Philosophy; a member of the association of Serbian writers, the Association of scientists and artists of Niš and a permanent member-assistant of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad; the author of a number of books on folk poems, dictionaries, monographies and a collector of prose folk literature, 2007.)

» By imagination to the truth (Stana Smiljković, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Pedagogy and the author of many textbooks on the methodology of language and literature, 2007.)

» All the magical horses (Jory Sherman, the author of The Ballad of Pinewood Lake, the winner of a Spur Award from the Western writers of America for "THE MEDICINE HORN" and a nominee for a Pulitzer Prize for "GRASS KINGDOM", 2007.)

» Suzana and her magical world (Davorka Vučak, an artist, 2007.)

» While the guitar is playing (Major Mitchell, the author of historical novels about the American west and children's books, 2007.)

~ The hyperreal world of Suzana Stojanović ~

▪ THE HYPERREAL WORLD OF SUZANA STOJANOVIĆ (Denis Peterson, internationally recognized first generation hyperrealist painter whose early New Realist genre - Soft Focus Realism - was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, 2007.)
As a hyperrealist painter, Suzana’s engaging works are at once noteworthy, extreme and compelling. Most painters in the photorealist genre have chosen urban landscapes, oversized faces and figures, neon signs, etc. as their signature motifs. Suzana has instead concentrated her artistic efforts on horses. And not as one would imagine to see horses, for she has personalized the animals in such a way as to totally mesmerize her viewers. Her masterful paintings and drawings are attentive to detail and full of visceral energy not unlike the work of Rubens or Titian.
And make no mistake about it. These are not artwork dripping with emotion. They are highly proficient representations of the equine world that visually articulate the natural power and grace of these majestic animals. Each of her works are consistent as to proper positioning, subtle lighting, shading describing solidity of form, tonal balance, color perspective, depth of field, and natural movement.
The first time I viewed Suzana’s work it left a permanent and profoundly deep sensation in my core psyche that recognizably reinforced the universal need to be true to oneself in art as in life. Although her works are relatively divergent as to subject, they are not comprised of disparate styles. Each of her paintings is singularly true to hyperrealism in style and yet they all share a certain humility and softness. However, the humility and softness is not mere stylistic technique; it is Suzana the artist.
For example, Silence transmutes a special feeling, one of bonding between the master and his majestic horse. The composition magnifies that relationship in the upward perspective, the expansive width and the palette used for the sky and desert. The saddle itself is bedazzling, yet the glowing colors in it and throughout the figures establish movement also suggested by their measured stride. Were it not for the man and the natural setting, one would believe that the horse was a carefully crafted bronze statute gleaming under the lights. In clouds on the other hand, features an unusual transition of light in dust clouds created by the unrestrained subject animal. Together with the surrounding ominous darkness, they deliver explosive energy and movement.
I wholeheartedly recommend that you take the time to get to know her captivating work, as through these fine paintings, she has much to share about life, love and true friendship with all of us.
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