Creative Ideas

Paintings by Emilia Wilk

“For many years the center of my interest is Art. Even as a 6-year-old girl I paint canvas of my father. I remember my first painting was a copy of a man. I thought then, that painting is easy. Now I know that I was wrong. My work many times have led me to tears.

My real adventure with painting started when I got the album Ilia Riepina. I studied it from A to Z. That’s when I saw the real soul in his eyes. So I really wanted to paint. My tastes have since changed, but Ilia Riepina images will always be very important to me. In my work the most important is what I think makes the picture interesting for me. But really I’m most upset with himself. I love this discontent, and the thought of never painting can not be beat. Painting has always beat creator. On their website the authors always inform schools, exhibitions, etc. So I just do it. I always avoided the issue of their own work. A little discouraged about having their first collective exhibition in Warsaw (Picture of the Year 2001). In addition to the issuance of work at the end of the semester in Fine Arts in Gdansk, not exhibited anywhere. But now I decided to change it.”

Painting By Dam Domido

Dam Domido (Dominica) intuitively began painting from an early age. At 25, she decided to devote herself to her childhood passion and attended workshops in the evening at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. She then attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Grasse.

Her approach is expressionistic in its search for emotion, for a fragment of feeling. Her vision of reality and her waking dreams are positive and optimistic. In her examination of feelings, Dam Domido wishes to transform the suffering and torment of the soul into light to illuminate the dark side.

Dam Domido uses a mixed technique by assimilating several mediums: oil, acrylic, watercolour, chalk. The pigments of her palette are unique. She dips her brush into her soul and tears to recreate the emotion of a fleeting special moment between dream and heartbreak. Today her research focuses on transcribing the outside world into a language more emotional than real. She accentuates reality through the filter of her sensitivity to inspire an emotional response in the viewer.

Her works emphasize a certain view of women through a series of portraits: mysterious, glamorous, romantic, erotic… The artist makes the poses and facial expressions stand out from a think relief of paint, mixing past, present and future. She develops characters with a particular elegance, reminiscent of the work of Tamara Lempicka. She emphasizes nudes and refers to a traditional contemplation of the human body. The artist is sensitive to feminine beauty, a certain contemplation of the surface of things. She amplifies colours to cause wonder and her portrait series are interspersed with some paintings of the sea, landscapes or still lives which are all suggestions of escapism and dreams.

Her works speak of troubles, passion and life as well as of the difficulty of merely being a woman today

Les Voyageurs, bronze sculptures by Bruno Catalano

French artist Bruno Catalano has created an extraordinary series of eye-catching bronze sculptures called “Les Voyageurs” in Marseilles that depict realistic human workers with large parts of their bodies missing.

The sculptures were put on display in Marseilles to celebrate its position as the 2013 European Capital of Culture. They are skillful works of art even without the omissions, but the missing parts of the sculptures make them truly extraordinary and unique. They leave room for the imagination – are they missing something, or is it something that these “voyagers” have simply left behind? What’s especially impressive is that some of the sculptures seem to stand on very little support, giving them a sort of ethereal and surreal appearance.