Land scape
Anna Baranska
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
its technological sense, but also the subject matter of my work. The image became slightly blurred, the painting layer applied on underpainting was an intricate afterglow woven from multilayered glaze. The visual aspect, that is what is depicted on my paintings, is of no less importance. The genesis of the cycle are long-exposure photographs I took while travelling by car. The photos taken during my journeys show a world on the border between reality and abstraction, where particular motifs appear but not in their real shapes. An identical situation takes place when I create a painting. There is a concept, flash or frame on my mind, no more than just a loose idea as it has no defined shape, and it is blurred just like my paintings. In this cycle I do not convey literal messages or explicit ideas, but there is a part of me and my personality, the thoughts and visions existing inside of me that I just bring to light and materialize.
The process of painting is certainly an important stage of the creative process. The concept, which is often just a loose idea, takes its shape on the canvas. What is of crucial importance to me is painting technology and technological aspects of building an image. A painting is never created in haste for two reasons. Firstly, the process of painting is paced by the technique, which is the most traditional in its technological sense and comprises all stages of the painting process. Secondly, although a project is prepared beforehand, an idea also needs time to