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DEVASTATING WINDS, 2018 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 39.3X27.5 IN. | 100X70 CM.
INVITED ARTIST
THE POWER OF OCEANS, 2016 OIL AND ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 39.3X31.4 IN. | 100X80X2 CM.

MARIANNE CHARLOTTE MYLONAS-SVIKOVSKY

Lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland
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art, the first methodological approach to art studies still of
authority today. I always feel absolutely free to paint whatever
comes out, don’t follow any trend but have always been most
interested in painters from all over, having developed a very
critical and keen eye. Not following any trends or influences,
I appreciate Gerhard Richter for his varied paintings and for the
ones depicting his emotional status when under political strain
and menace. I also like Nicolas de Stael’s painting of Agrigento
for his vivid colors and daring compositions and atmospheres.
I love Master William Turner’s illuminated skye, wide horizons
and wonderful atmospheres.
Art is a never ending marvel and I am so lucky to have such a
creative nature in everything I do. Having grown up in a family
transmitting the love of art and music to their five children,
Since I am also a poet, my poetic images say through colors painting has always be real joy for me, a need, urgency often
vibrations in arrangements of lines what words express, to express something that just has to come out, either in a
evident link between painting and poetry. My third theme spurt or after long maturation. Techniques vary in accordance
are abstracts that, however, do express the, at that time, to what wants to be expressed and mediums go from pastels,
emotional status I am in or any other deep down diffuse watercolors, oil to acrylic.
feeling that just spurts out and takes shape on the canvas,
so to speak by itself, through layers and layers of much
worked over paint. Having lived and done my schooling in
various countries and languages, I have developed a critical
eye and distance to help rapid adaptation and let sink down
in me what I have seen which is reproduced some day on
canvas. This explains the variety in my painting and the many
techniques to express it I just discover while being plunged:
in what is happening on the canvas, and, like Pierre Soulages,
the great French craftsman(dixit) and art master of black says,
let the material express itself, feeling absolutely free to paint
whatever comes forth.
Going my own way, forever studying the old masters, best art
school, museums, exhibitions, always a joy, thus developing
evermore a keener, appreciative eye. During my four years
in Rome, I have also studied Vasari’s book on Renaissance

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