Henrieta Maneva
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
are incomparable. Every one of them completed their own mission to the world of art and left so much behind them. They all are very inspiring to me and have definitely influenced my work. I love to travel and have directly witnessed( became in contact with) Michelangelo’ s and Gaudi’ s art. Michelangelo is my first love. As a kid, I got as a present a book with his art and I drew almost every sculpture in there. Gaudi is the most inspiring for me. His imaginative works mainly inspired by nature, with all this organic and anarchic geometric forms, go beyond any one style or classification, or comparison. During my visit inside the Sagrada Familia, I had the feeling that I had met God, the Creator there. Gaudi is so unreal, so progressive, excelled and ahead of his time, our time, and probably of the near future. All his buildings are so surreal, like a fairy tale. John Ruskin I know from his books,“ The seven Lamps of Architecture” and“ The Stones of Venice”. I am not an art critic, writer, or architect. I am just an admirer of architecture, especially Gothic. Ruskin’ s principle of architecture, the seven moral categories that he considered vital to architecture, all the seven lamps: sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory, obedience, were so similar to my perception and ideas. His tremendous work and his incredible illustration are very inspirational to me. I am not trying to compare or show preference of one over the other, as all of their work has influenced me. I just enjoy their art, their celestial talent, their unique style used to recreate something immortal, the people’ s belief in God, in