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Esthetic and Ecological Utopia in the Art of Dubravka Babic
Lilijana Domić
; Samostalni istraživač, Zagreb
Sažetak
This article is dedicated to the newest (2000-2005) phase in the art of the distinguished Croatian contemporary painter, draftsman, and print maker, Dubravka Babić, with a particular emphasis on her 2005 exhibition at the Palazzo Milesi in Split, and her cycles entitled "Nature," "Flowers," and "The Poet's Tomb."
Ms. Babić, Professor at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, graduated at the same institution in the class of Albert Kjnert, and has been primarily known as draftsman and print maker. However, the richness of her drawing style has been announcing, for a long time, that in the depth of her soul, Ms. Babić is (also) a painter. In a fascinating way combining experiences of expressionism, tachism, and informel, this has come true in the above mentioned cycles, which levitate on the borderline of figuration antI abstraction, without, however, losing the sense of the object.
Ms. Babić has elaborated her recent visions much in the spirit of her namesake, the great Croatian 20 century painter and art theoretician, Ljubo Babić, who, fascinated by Spain, left one of the finest sets of Croatian water-colors. The fascination with Spain which Ms. Babić shares resulted in a style of animal energy of the Mediterranean "of the Minotauros," resulting in a very specific variant of neo-expressionism cum neo-romanticism in her opus, which represents one of the most authentic moments of current Croatian art scene.
Ključne riječi
Dubravka Babic; Croatian Contemporary Art; Post-Modernism; Art-Brut; lnformel; Modem Art
Hrčak ID:
148743
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Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2005.
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