"Malik" Print

The Dream of Freedom. By Branka Berberijan - Art critic and journalist. Extract: "This beautiful animal is the idyllic and utopic dream of freedom, unobtainable in the real world, yet which is expressed by the artist through her unique method of painting. (Janette) paints the outline of her subject matter as if it were a true reproduction of the horse; softens the sharpness of the images with pastels treated with water, achieving, with that softening, an extremely fine style, which, in turn, reduces the object of her inspiration into the idea itself, in a purely platonic way. Moreover, the plain white background, with no added detail and no chromatic treatment, allows the horse to stand out in all its splendour. Its magical beauty is also portrayed by concentrating on just one principal colour, from which the artist derives, with exceptional sensitivity, a whole spiral of different hues and shades which gives the work, not only an aesthetic purity, but also a poetic and semantic feeling, converting it into an artistic study about the relationship between realism and idealism. The greatest artistic care may be seen in the depth and beauty of the animal’s eyes: it seems as if, when you look at them closely, there is a search for that enigmatic point around which radiates the essence of the horse's beauty."