Jana Vizjak
Jana Vizjak (* 1956 in Ljubljana ) is a Slovenian painter.
Life
She attended the Ljubljana Art Academy . In 1982 she successfully completed the painting master class with Janez Bernik . Since then she has been working as a freelance artist. Between 1991 and 1996 she was a student at Gotthard Graubner's Art Academy in Düsseldorf .
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Jana Vizjak works with expressive compositions, in which one of the central picture-generating roles is assigned to the painterly and graphic gesture. The sources of inspiration for Jana Vizjak's painting can be different: landscape, portrait, self-portrait, still life, religious themes.
The glaze-like color applications in Jana Vizjak's pictures appear extremely unearthly, imaginary, but at the same time chromatically intense. The expressive deformation of their spiritual figural shapes is geared towards dematerialization, guided by El-Greco-esk's elongated body shapes; In contrast, the artist also introduced the form of expression of physiognomies into the sacred tradition, which also breathed the unmistakable stamp of popular primacy and archaity into their originality, according to the art historian and art critic Milček Komelj.
The same applies to all of her landscapes, for the vastness with an unknown island, named or localized as somewhere, far or there, but finally also for her more concrete palm trees on Cypriot sandy beaches with biblically exotic overtones. For the painter, however, the focus is on the human figure, captured by the allegorically personified and particularly expressive aspect, particularly intense in its painful tension and wistful rapture, devotion and premonition. Such a vision in Jana Vizjak's painting escalates everywhere through the play of colors as well as bright contrasts and flashes of light, which increase the expressiveness of the motivic components.
literature
- Marijan Zlobec: Pogovor z akademsko slikarko Jano Vizjak. Moje slike nagovorijo gledalca v imenu sublimnega. Revija Logos , January 15, 2003.
- Milček Komelj: Slike Jane Vizjak. Nova revija , let. 23, št. 361/262, 2004.
- Milček Komelj: V svetlobi granatnih jabolk: Jana Vizjak. Ampak , let. 5, št. 12, dec. 2004.
- Alenka Zgonik: Pogovor z Jano Vizjak. Človek tišine sem, tišina je nekaj lepega. Nedelo , May 8, 2005.
- Alenka Zgonik: Barva je veliko več kot snov, ki jo iztisneš iz tube. Jana Vizjak, slikarka. Delo , February 2, 2008.
- Milček Komelj: Risbe Jane Vizjak. Nova revija , let. 28, št. 327/329, 2009.
Monographs
- Jana Vizjak, Zoran Kržišnik: Jana Vizjak . Ljubljana: samozaložba, 1989.
- Jana Vizjak: Slike / Pictures. Celje: Zavod za kulturne prireditve, Galerija sodobne umetnosti, 2001.
- Jana Vizjak: Pot srca . Celovec: Mohorjeva, 2008.
- Jana Vizjak: Path of the Heart . Celovec: Mohorjeva, 2008.
- Jana Vizjak: Avtoportret: Čas za slikarstvo. Kranj: Gorenjski muzej, 2012.
- Jana Vizjak, Damir Globočnik, Aljaž Pogačnik: Kreposti, krogi in portreti . Jesenice: Gornjesavski muzej; Kranj: Gorenjski muzej; Radovljica: Muzeji radovljiške občine, 2018.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Damir Globočnik: Dialog barve in svetlobe v sliki. In: Jana Vizjak, Damir Globočnik, Aljaž Pogačnik: Kreposti, krogi in portreti. Jesenice: Gornjesavski muzej; Kranj: Gorenjski muzej; Radovljica: Muzeji radovljiške občine, 2018, pp. 23-25.
- ↑ Milček Komelj: Mistično hrepenenjska umetnost. Kulturno-družbena revija Zvon, 2012, No. 2, pp. 31–32.
- ↑ Milček Komelj: Ciprska brezčasnost Jane Vizjak. In: Jana Vizjak: Oda ciprski krajini. Ljubljana: Galerija Zala, 2010, p. 5.
- ↑ Milček Komelj: The artistic way of the cross by Jana Vizjak. In: Jana Vizjak: Herzensweg. Klagenfurt: Hermagoras Verein, 2008, pp. 5–11.
- ↑ Milček Komelj: Posvečenost ljubezni. Jana Vizjak: Rdeča Pieta. Vzgoja: revija za učitelje, vzgojitelje in starše, March 2008, J. 10, No. 37, pp. 36–37.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vizjak, Jana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ljubljana |