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Vera Tanasić
ART Habens
possibility to simultaneously get ideas for
other paintings.
believed then, as I believe now, that this
should be an ongoing process. Every
artist is influenced by society, social and
economic factors, as well as personal
perception of the world. Regardless of
the fact that I come from the country
where the circumstances are not that
good, I have not left difficult experiences
prevent me from improving.
At the time of creation, I don’t think
about associative possibilities but only
about the ideas and feelings I want to
convey. I am, off course, pleased that my
works provide the audience an
opportunity to connect with them as they
feel.
I always make sketches before
transferring my idea onto canvas. I use
sketches to solve problems of balance
and content. In the beginning, I didn’t do
this at all which resulted in errors and
binned works. Considering I use
expressive relief, I have to draw sketches
of several segments. However, when I
start working the process often take me
into new directions as the idea evolves
and refuses to be contained. This makes
the process complicated, long and
detailed. Regardless of where the idea is
coming from, to avoid unnecessary
mistakes, I think the best way is first to
develop the idea in sketches. Also, the
advantages of sketching are in the
While I was a teenager, I explored
various art forms, especially marble
mosaics. It is then that I discovered the
multitude of impressions created by
refraction of light on changing angles of
the stone three-dimensional surface. I
wanted to reproduce this phenomenon
on canvas; with its true application in
dark paintings. Black occupied my
canvases and it had to be sufficient. My
first paintings were all in black, but I still
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