Irina Kara
At a subconscious level
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Irina Kara At a subconscious level
Cover: Blue Vase, oil on canvas, 50x40cm Overleaf: Subconscious, oil on canvas, 2x85x85cm
‘Making your unknown known is the most important thing and keeping the unknown always beyond you.’ Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986)
‘Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.’ Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)
Irina started painting in her childhood. As an architect, a tutor of architecture at the Technical University and interior designer she is a successful artist. She always wanted to be an artist in order to express herself.
Irina was first an abstract painter and
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expressive and colourful works throughout her life that are widely appreciated by her collectors and other people.
Irina sees her work as a living organism. She says: Blank canvas is ‘talking’ to me and sometimes dictates what should appear. Rarely do I depict something that was planned in advance. Mostly, the idea comes to me during the work itself. Sometimes the process reminds me of a battlefield between me and the canvas. Truth comes from opposition and when the conflict ends the painting emerges.
Irina’s artistic language is similar to music. The beauty of the form is not immediately visible but appears in the movement of the brushstrokes on the canvas.
Awards: ‘Venice Biennale’, ‘Slavic Art Week in Berlin’, ‘Art Week in St. Petersburg’, ‘Bulgarian Art Week’.
Press: ‘'520 Masterpieces of Visual Art The Great Female Artists: From the Middle Ages to The Modern Era', published in Vienna in English and German.
Pomegranate with flowers oil on canvas 50x40cm
The running boat on the waves oil on canvas 50x40cm
The bay of dual standby oil on canvas 50x40cm
Blue dome of the east oil on canvas 60x85 cm
Peonies Oil on canvas 70x50cm
Cornflowers Oil on canvas 85x30 cm
Tea roses oil on canvas 60x50cm
The Bird of Happiness oil on canvas 50x40cm
Blossom oil on canvas 60x85 cm
Summer is in full swing oil on canvas 60x85 cm
Rain oil on canvas 60x50cm
Pomegranates oil on canvas 80x70 cm
Overleaf: Reflections Oil on canvas 60x85cm
The Kiss oil in canvas 50x40
Rhythms of the city oil on canvas 50x40cm
Autumn oil on canvas 85x85 cm
Wings of Phoenix oil on canvas 60x85 cm
Orange mood oil on canvas 50x60
Fire Dance oil on canvas 60х85 cm
London, 2016