1515 Lincoln Gallery
Oklahoma City, OK
1515 Lincoln Gallery features new discoveries of contemporary artists and and secondary market works of art by Oklahoma, national and international artists
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Artist: David Mladjovic (Serbian, b. 1994)
The composition is the source of my inspiration
To compose, or to put one next to the other, is the arrangement of parts in a whole composition. Personally, the composition as a term in fine arts notes the structure that they create together in an artistic element in their interrelation. Our admiration for the composition is the result of a long process of adjustment, which has been for years and for reasons that very often have nothing to do with art. Picture created her viewer. It's a conventional relationship. The composition as a style is grounded on the theory of neoplasticism or abstraction of art and the reduction of it to as few factors as possible. The composition for me is aimed at bringing the truth closer to the foundations of things around us. Somewhere in the middle of my fourth year of bachelor studies, a great thing broke out, and a special aspiration for freedom and finding yourself, your style. I got a chance in a student exchange program ERASMUS+ at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece (for 1 semester) and in the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia (for 1 semester). The faculties were considered with the construction and continuing expansion and enrichment of one completely self-supporting work, with a newer experience, more recent forms of material, relationships, colors, and textures that I found and explored there. It was a true internal rebellion, with direct goals within the boundaries of art and with the scope of new interesting techniques as technique Collographi (drawing with glue). The collaboration in Collographi technique is directed against aesthetics and rooted taste, against the tradition and habits which I had during the previous years of studies in the Graphic Department. The technique has denied all rigid obligations and all the rules in a reproduction of a print. Except it didn't allow everything to go smooth; It accepted me, and all the shapes and proportions of material surfaced and transferred to the one print as a composition that a person can see, feel, and touch. It was an offer of a new, deeper, and more artistic content of my inner state, it has expanded the possibilities of my pursuit; meaning liberation of creativity from the stigma. The abstraction of my drawings, collages, matrices, provides the possibility that everyone on their finding and mood, interpreting or just experiencing what he or she sees, but also stimulates the thought process; intrigues our intellect. The motive was always different. Upon return from Thessaloniki, to master studies I wanted to interpret the Collographi technique into the silk-screen printing technique. I describe my drawings and collages as a dynamic and expressive process, learned from the inner struggle for the discovery of the secrets of fine arts; entry into their world. The drawing was always in collaboration with some texture from materials: plastic, jute, paper, wood, cardboard, and inspired by it I solve the composition by drawing lines built in the shape of matter, volume, and invoice of surfaces.
To demonstrate the drawing and the material with which I was inspired, I used wood glue as a fixative. While I'm working on the subject that I'm holding I think on the environment, the current state of mind, and the association to simplify it and give it in a spaceless form that is not objectively resolved, without a perspective that everything will be crystallized on the surface of the composition. The end is always uncertain, it carries a special charm, I return to the drawing and problems several times, finishing, applying new colors until the desired structure is obtained. Printed graphics often have more monotype reproductions, deviations from the initial drawing and drawings. It is great happiness and joy when the desired print is obtained; so working in the printmaking studio makes me happy and with great care, I approach the printing of test prints and monotypes. By realizing the thoughts and ideas that I bear within myself and the desire to create a unity between my spiritual state, liberating the inner pulses and the gestures that I do at work to get the desired graphics that contain this unity of content in the composition. In the center of interest is the color, gesture, and all the elementary art elements that make the composition.