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Aktrice
Edith Eggar
I
like to use the elaborate oil-painting technique - now almost
forgotten - of the Old Masters, in an unmistakable combination
of abstract compositions, in mixed media worked with a wide
variety of materials such as mirrors, glass, sand, stones,
plates, wood, white and yellow gold .........
I call my newly-developed technique "Simultan Art",
since the various objects project half-way out of the picture
and are completed optically by realistic painting on the flat
surface. One of my basic principles is that
" my works are also to be enjoyed "
My starting-point, like that of many artists, is the love
of colours, together with symbolism and the human body. I
have enormous admiration for the great masters - Rembrandt,
Rubens, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian,. then Monet, Mucha, Klimt,
Prof. Ernst Fuchs, Dali,.... to mention only a few. An academic
title has no importance. Monet, for instance, was self-taught,
like a number of other great painters. For me, the main thing
is the love of painting, and I simply have to let out all
that is simmering inside me! I deliberately swim against the
tide by refusing any reduction - because swimming against
the current is the way to reach the source.
" painting is a vocation - not a profession "
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