Ecstatic, Evocative, Ethereal
Art Dealer Street
By Faiq Imran
“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of “Green?” How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can the eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color. Imagine a world before the “beginning was the word.”
The first thing you’ll notice about Maria José’s work is the richness of tone and vibrancy of the colors. The brush strokes swim against each other as if in a trance. It must be this exuberance of spirit that compels the whirling Sufis. As noticeable in ‘Green Strokes’ and ‘Overlapping Green Strokes’, she is a fan of whirling as well. A soothing melody of green strokes wraps itself within itself. In ‘Orange Strokes’, a sea of oranges is peeled onto the canvass.
She mostly paints with acrylics and feels it yields the best results, “I had always love researching and exploring on new techniques, but through the technique of painting I feel comfortable in creating because I have a deep study on it, I had explored a lot on different types of paints and surfaces, but the acrylic on canvas or paper gave me the opportunity to achieve my results in the best way”.