Bleak Paintings

I admire Maya Kulenovic since that I known her, she is a Canadian painter, She was born in 1975 in Sarajevo, now living and working in Toronto. Well... she has four series of paintings: faces, landscape, build and stills. Her paintings are very bleak. Maya Kulenovic has exhibited in over twenty solo exhibitions and over fourty group shows and art fairs. Her paintings can be seen in numerous collections around the world.

Here you can see an examples of her work:

Faces:

Build:

Land:

Stills:

 

Always struck me that kind of atmosphere, the conflict between shadows and light, in what sometimes seems darkness wins the battle, but suddenly light appears from nowhere for show some gloomy buildings, faces and landscape. About her work she said ''Art is a form of daily meditation on the three cornerstones of human experience: life, death and love. The many permutations of these three shape our daily events and human behaviour- our collective history, memory and hope.

Most of my works bear some reference to war, mortality and fragility of culture. The extreme experiences of war and genocide, as collective madness, evoke an element of chaos and transform our collective consciousness, bringing out both its creative and destructive elements. I think of my paintings as investigations into the unreliable nature of safety, possessions and knowledge - and the search for spirituality of some sort, as a promise of compassion.''

In this video you can see her work in progress:

Are you an animal lover?

Are you an animal lover? Well, I'm not. I like animals, but I don't consider myself an animal lover. I never had a pet when I was a child, but now I have a dog, she is very lovely, playful and shy, that is her main characteristic. As I said before I'm not an animal lover, but that doesn't mean that I don't care anything about them. I think that animals shouldn't be used for medical research, I simply refuse that idea. In my opinion, animals should be free in their natural environment, therefore I think the zoo should have never existed, I have never liked it. I still remember when I was a child and I went to the zoo with my classmate, when I left that place I was very sad, I was a little girl and I thought It was very unfair that animals were in jail and I consider that people who buy and wear fur coat are persons without common sense and sensitivity. 

Talking about my pet... in the summer of this year she bit me one of my finger of my left hand and I couldn't play violin or do anything with that hand about one month, but it was my fault... I was giving her chicken in its snout, I didn't that very careful, and she bit me.. well, despite that, I think dogs shouldn't be muzzled. Well... always I have liked reptiles... and if I would be an animal I should like be any reptile.. a snake, a cocodrile, etc. But I also like ferrets, they are beautiful, so cute and curious. Yes, I know it was the opposite of the reptile but.... it's my way.