View on Lienfeldergasse 58 Hof in the night Painting

Martina Gasp is a painter who devotes her paintings to paint the regular people on the streets. She chooses to show in her paintings the daily people, very often minorities, their inner feelings, the depiction of inner personalities and the overabundance of colors of inner life and of inner personalities and lives of regulary people. She never paints from photography. She paints her motives directly in the city, seeing the streets, every day people. Her motives are never stative - prepared in studio, her motives are to catch the situations with all the details and inaccuracies which happen in painting of an unprepared real life situation with every day people and colours of their life. She just puts canvas on the ground on the market or on the street or holds it in the hand and paints. She is most probably the first painter in Austria whose focus is on real life situation and life of real life people and their inner life. As Austria was previously a monarchy, a monarch in the past ruled so that he considered interests of various interest groups like church and interests of group of merchants and other groups. He ruled considering interests of interest groups, real people were expected to follow (real life people were in background). Similarly, also painters in Austria in the past painted more wifes of rich people like rich merchants, the scene was mostly agreed upon, it was not spontaneous painting, the painters painted in the studio or in the saloon, emphasis was on physical beauty and wealth for example rich decoration not inner life of a person. Normal people were not painted, they were not even supposed to have inner life at all. They were not asked by monarchy, they were not considered interesting for painters. The paintings of painters were mostly set- painted in the studios, not in the city. Even if Austria changed to republik, till now like residues from the monarchy, still interests of various interest groups are still more negotiated and considered politically and still day-to-day person is still considered not that important, uninteresting -to be follower and in the background (like by the monarchy). Nowadays, still the painters in Austria paint more modern paintings, abstract paintings like it is modern in the world, but they dont focus on every day persons or life or inner life of a normal day-to-day person.