Woman’s shadow
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monotype, 19 x 14 cm
year of creation 2003
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Woman’s shadow is a little drawing, a kind of shadow pictures which I do before the color painting. It is a kind of foreshadowing of a future painting on canvas. Shadow painting is not an easy task. Women are present in my art and will remain so, sometimes in black shadow paintings, often as a portrait in shadow.
How does the shadow work? It shows something and hides it at the same time. It is a special kind of message. There is something mysterious about the shadow. We can only see the outline of a figure. The details are invisible. We have to guess who the person is. The shape of her figure helps us. The black figure in the drawing is hunched over as if it wants to take up as little space as possible. Is this woman in the shadow shy, embarrassed by her presence? Or, conversely, does she want to exude her femininity through her pose? We can only guess. In our guesses, we project our emotions onto this figure. And that is the point. The role of a work of art is to stimulate the viewer. The female shadow is there because there is light. Paradoxically, the black shadow glorifies the light in black shadow painting.
I made this woman black shadow drawing in the evening when there was dark in my studio. I drew by a small lamp. The shadow of a person hunched over the drawing was simultaneously drawn on the wall. Similar to the woman’s shadow of this drawing, shadow is present in my shadow woman art. Not only in drawings also in painting shadow where it plays similar role. Dark shadow painting is not any easy shadow painting, it is a challenge and opportunity to express much by simple means. In such an image, the dark silhouettes are an interpretation of shadows as are the simplified human figures. The juxtaposition of figures and shadows in a figurative painting introduces the factor of a certain mystery, of understatement. These meanings, which are not fully clarified, invite the viewer to interpret, to actively participate in contact with the image. And when a shadow of woman appears in the painting, the question arises: what is she like?
In general, any person shadow drawing arouses the curiosity of the viewer. That’s who we are, we like images that we want to interpret ourselves.
Shadow painting ideas are waiting to be implemented. And the white blank canvases that stand in my studio remind me of this every day. It is often the case that you start with a dark shadow drawing and then a painting is created.
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