ARTIST STATEMENT

Artist Statement

Art is a transcending language which Theodora Saladino Krc uses as a forum for her visual expressions in painting and drawing. In our newly emerging consciousness, she believes that visual art becomes a very necessary & powerful tool.

Theo pushes her imagination envelope towards an ever changing new frontier of thought. Using this transcending language of art to express those thoughts, she has created a personal consciousness which lies beneath her beautiful, elegant style of painting.

Using her newly formed visual perceptions, Theo imagines how life patterns of pure light would look while they exist in another dimensional space and are warped by some distant time relativity. In her creative philosophy, her cosmos would exist simultaneously to our now physical three dimensions and within a powerful magical parallel universe.

Her cosmic visions also incorporate the ancient ideas of healing colors & use of meditative healing shapes. Using art to heal the soul of the viewer on a subliminal basis is an underlying goal for her beautiful and elegant creations.

Carefully choosing colors and shapes, and keeping her painting surfaces smooth and lustrous help Theodora to create feelings of peacefulness for the viewer while at-the-same-time stimulating their imaginations to go beyond themselves.

Going beyond one's present imagination, she believes, exercises a sense of discovery of the intangible world around us. This exercise is crucial to an overwhelmed stressed out society.

Theo invites you to escape the concrete reality of the gray, beige, smog infested world we live in by using her powerful colorful visual art. After all, a trip into the imagination can be the most powerful medicine for the soul.

Today, Theodora is continuing her personal study of modern cosmic theories of astronomy and of ancient philosophical ideas which influence modern ideas.

She feels that our ancient ancestors, long deceased, held keys of knowledge & wisdom that have long vanished this human planet. To focus on only what little remains here in handed down philosophy, written by primitive peoples, is to investigate only small recreated glimpses of those ancient times.

What was destroyed and not passed on to us archeologically from beyond the past 10,000 years she believes could be more important for us to contemplate.

Strong influences on Theodora's artistic style come from the Abstract, Conceptual and Surrealistic movements of Modern Art.

Special influence on her style comes from whom she believes to be the greatest modern abstract art master of all time, Wassily Kandinsky.

She was especially influenced by the books Kandinsky authored about art: On the Spiritual in Art and Point and Line to Plane.

While attending the University of Houston, Theodora studied Josef Albers Interaction of Color in the rare books section of the U of H library. The ideas put forth in that publication had a profound effect on her earlier minimalistic paintings where she emulated the style of Piet Mondrian. His theories of color are still applied in her art today.

The modern masters Joan Miro & Henri Matisse influenced the development of the more decorative aspects of her style.

The sensuous painting quality of the contemporary master Georgia O'Keeffe has influenced the way Theodora applies paint and chooses simple compositional dynamics in her overall painting style.