Dance Macabre Painting

Image- without premeditation. Image- from the depths of being. Image- as the residue of experiences transposed into a symbol. Image- as the flash of the archetypal. Never wavering in the intuitive approach to creativity. Dreams streamed into the image. The richness of reality, civilization’s knowledge, and personal drama summarize into the symbols that are always new, and always exciting, if the artist holds on to the original principles. No story is told to the end because it is in constant development and movement, and because of that art can never be spent. Technological development which is put to the service of ideas is the means for bringing the symbol closer to reality in a new, more powerful way. Technology is in the service of art and ideas, not the artist as a slave to technology. The artist is the illuminator of his own cathartic experience that occurs as a result of the creative act. Immersed in the core of the world, where the dualisms – happiness, joy, and pain meet the artist is the herald of knowing the secrets of being. In my work, I strive to follow the rhythm of internal pulsation devoid of external demands and pressures by which cultural opinion seeks to reshape the creator. Social engagement, attitude toward reality, and contemporaneity are a priori contained in the sublimated images. No need to stream them into textuality or explicitness as this alienates and distances art from the audience and the artists from the conceptual sources. The developmental phase of my art ranged from reviewing corporeality through symbolic-expressive figuration to being then purified by an abstract sign that speaks with the strength of its coloristic or formal effect. In the current creative phase of a film sequence or ambient architecture, I transposed into the medium of painting using the principles of extended media in order to discover new challenges of the picture. Streaming the picture into motion, video, or vice versa, by regressing the moving image of film into traditional art media, new formal and coloristic values are established which, borrowed from another medium, acquire entirely new force and meaning. Milica Raicevic was born on April 29th, 1974 in Belgrade. She graduated from Painting Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts ( FFA) in Belgrade and she earned a master’s degree from the same faculty ( 2002). She is currently in the Ph.D. program at the Faculty of Contemporary Arts (FSU) in Belgrade.