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VELISAR KRSTIC
Serbia | Professor In The University Of Fine Arts In Beograd
| Deformation is always the consequence of some other, to the being and things strange powers, strange even when they are self- contained. And those very powers, the energy which turns natural currents to negative processes, provokes Krstic’s artistic consciousness. But one would be wrong to think that it exhausts the motives and reasons for producing such a vast number of canvases with such drastic obstructions of natural form and its “use” in the painting vocabulary. Krstic neither renounces the natural form, nor does he abolish it as a psychological or an artistic-linguistic fact, but by defining contents of his message he reduces it to its substantial character. freeing it from any context of its real state.It is not reduced to association, to broken meaningful thread, surrealistic fragment or an illusion of totality. We don’t know how much, in the form thus structured, the magical magma of the unconscious is present, and how much a keen eye of the conscious, but it is certain that unity of all linguistic elements in the structure of a painting has been achieved. Such treatment of form Krstic bases upon two, only at first glance, contradictory principles: the principle of deformation and the principle of reconciliation. |
| We have already said that deformation is a permanent way of determining pictorial character of form, characteristic for Krstic’s painting from his very beginnings. Principle of reconciliation results in aspiration for a single, individual act, to be reduced to itself, in spite of destructive powers of decomposition and entropy. So that the process may be arrested at a certain stage. It is a catharsis, tranquility, withdrawal into entity, completeness. Therefore among vigorous expression, invisible rage of gesture, brutal shortening and limitness of canvas lies an empty space which permanently challenges the painter to new attempts. That is why opuses and whole series treat almost the same problems but on a higher emotional and expressive level. |
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