View of the Los Angeles skyline from The Getty Center
Gustav Klimt - An Exhibition At The Getty Center
A few months ago,
one of my favorite Los Angeles museums, The Getty Center, hosted a wonderful
retrospective exhibition devoted to the drawings of Gustav Klimt, a 19th
century Austrian artist and key figure of international Modernism.
For me, visiting and
viewing such exhibitions is a very special event. Being a fine artist, I
observe the artworks of my fellow artists through a different prism, studying,
evaluating and understanding them in a special way.
In our creations, we
as fine artists feel, understand and speak in a language of lines, strokes, and
this special dialect is understood and spoken between us, in the entirety of
all its depth and meaning.
Looking at Klimt's
drawings, before me appeared his feelings and thoughts, inserted and told
through the expressive dynamic of his graphite lines.
The breath of the artist is alive in his immortal art, and as fresh as in the very moment of creation.
View of The Getty Center Garden
The exhibition, Gustav Klimt: The Magic Of Line, was of great interest to me, especially since
drawing plays a pivotal role in my creative process.
In the summer of
last year, I began to create an original composition, inspired to
envision an image of one of the most romantic and magical female figures of all
time, Sleeping Beauty.
A fragment of the drawing Sleeping Beauty by fine artist Elena V. Baranoff
Summer 2011, California
Copyright Elena V. Baranoff
The detailed drawing
was complete that same summer, and the fine art painting is now in progress.
The objective of a fine artist, to form that dream into a visual reality with the help of a simple pencil and paper, can be complex or elementary, depending on the strength of the artist’s natural and later nurtured talent.
This monumental moment in the creation of a new work of art can bravely and boldly be proclaimed a miracle.
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