 The Maria Dziopaks exhibition "The Sun of Europe and Near East"
is the reflection of artists glancing at the world.
Among the presented set of Maria Dziopak works we can distinguish two themes which represent separate - though as we may see - complementary to each other ways of perceiving of reality as always emotional with this author.
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| The small bridge |
In the garden |
Arcade in the afternoon |
First - "feminine" one is a fairy-tale world of gardens with mysterious gates leading to where among flowers grackle silhouettes in long dresses and huge hats promenade, bending their steps toward magic places looming in the distance. The world full of light and shadow, tranquility, musing and subtlety... polish summer, sunny Italia or everlasting sun of Near East.
The second - is more aggressive trend of seascapes painted in Norway and in England. Strong coloring of continually stormy sea, rapacious, full of chiaroscuro forms of scraggy rocks against which foaming white-caps crash. The world of tough men and unyielding lows of nature.
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| In the park |
Mystery |
Fiord |
Despite of those differences both themes are cohesive in form. Maria is not afraid of saturated coloring, glaring color scheme, light-and-shadow contrasts. She paints with rapid, impetuous strokes of the brush often she employs palette-knife obtaining dramatic effect of thick expressive facture treatment. It remains the authors secret - how this creative passion, energy she works with, becomes converted in her painting - just as successfully - into an atmosphere of dusk falling with light haze over the palace gardens, as into an icy atmosphere of snow storm raving over the North Sea.
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