Mladen Cvetkovic

I am autodidact abstract artist. After great inner transformation, I started to perceive, and live life in a fundamentally different way. My new perspective made me realize patterns in the environment and nature around me, which in turn I started to express abstractly on canvas. My true creation started at the age of 27, mixing my new cognition with passion for art. Each painting is created in one precise single moment, expressing the full momentum of the emotion. World today is urging forward at a pace that is hard to follow, everything is moving fast, the way we live, eat, think… I don’t let this pace affect me and my canvas, we are alone and free to create endlessly, while the world is rushing by.
I use traditional media and techniques, such as canvas, paper, timber board, painted with acrylic and mixed media, but often I use unique tools to produce restructured textured paintings. I paint abstract motives: expansions, merging, flow, harmony, infinity, mystery… simple moments made of infinite messages.
Besides painting, I’m a professional 3D photo-realistic visual artist for 15 years. Too much photorealism led me to bring forth abstraction which is far more powerful form of expression.
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I have never let my education interfere with my art.