Description
Slutnja (eng. Premonition). Original color vernis-mou (soft-ground etching), 1972. Edition of E.A. (artist’s proof) signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper.
Metka Krašovec is one of the most important painters in contemporary Slovenian art. Her imagination and sensibility are manifested through fantasy images, creatures, landscapes and atmospheres with big interest in beauty. The essential thread for poetry of her painting is the search for beauty as an absolute ideal to which we can come close to, but can not quite reach. She quotes Matisse: “The artist has but one idea. He is born with it and spends a lifetime developing it and making it breathe.”, and for her, this idea is finding harmony in her duality of extreme precision and openness and joy. In this composition the artist researches the impact of colors and forms to the human senses, whereby she opposed vibrant warm background colors with horizontal lines and vertical forms with cold colors.
