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Filomena, Lover of strength Painting

Alicia Zemanek

Canada

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in

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About The Artwork

This is the 5th painting of the series “Arabesques”. The Arabesques collection comes from my strong Mediterranean influences where very saturated and bold colors and Moorish and detailed prints are used. This collection also portrays the evolution towards more traditional painting techniques with the quest of obtaining richer and deeper colors. This is the start of a long fruitful journey where I acquaint with the use of oil glazing techniques. The decision to focus on the marine life came from my love of the sea and with the intention to fill the walls of my second home in the Florida Keys. I was inspired to do an Octopus after having watched My Octopus teacher. Her beauty, strength & courage were inspiration to me. I have chosen the name Filomena as it means Lover of strength & courage. The artwork was done using only glazing after the underpainting was done. There was in total 9 coats of glazing applied which gives immense color depth, transparency and light effect.

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:47.2 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in

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Original luxurious colourful Art ! « I cannot refrain from a totally abstract art that clings to nothing. My quest is to unite a Moorish sense of the decorative with a Western concern for realism.» I am a self-taught artist who since 2016 paints in oils. I presented my first group exhibition in 2019 in Luxembourg and I now collaborate with several art galleries and digital art platforms. I have two studios, one in the Florida Keys and the other in Quebec. Inspirations & Philosophy Influenced by my Mediterranean origins, the colorful richness of Byzantine icons, decorative arabesques, the luxuriance of Middle Eastern printed fabrics and the mastery of Russian art captivate me. Through my works, I seek to bridge the gap between the decorative/oriental sense and the importance of realistic Western qualities. My compositions are deeply inspired by Delacroix, Matisse, and Bonnard and by more contemporary painters such as Marco del Re, Olga Zelinskaya, Olga Suronova, and Eric Wert. It is therefore not surprising that my style can be considered close to the Nabi movement of which Bonnard was a part. Nabi expresses the spiritual quest they have undertaken and the aesthetic renewal they have initiated. This movement, created in 1888, and which is part of the post-impressionist history but detaches itself from it, advocates the return to the imaginary and subjectivity with the idea of an essentially decorative and accessible art that embellishes life! Style & technique Using aquatic or animal elements, I create many transparency and color brightness effects using traditional glazing techniques. This marked the beginning of my adventure, between the Nabi artistic movement and the ancestral techniques of the great Masters. The contrasts thus obtained reveal an understanding and mastery of the medium, while highlighting my visual creativity which seeks to create a style mixing oriental influences and western modernity. Inspired by Matisse and Marco Del Re, a contemporary painter who was nourished by great masters such as Matisse, Derain, Braque, I create compositions that juxtapose and overlap, and where colors arouse deep and suggestive emotions in observers. Like Matisse, my works mix decorative orientalism and Western realism: purity of color, applied in flats, drawing treated in arabesque with shadow and modelling.

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