Sylvia Basic Artist

Sylvia Basic (born March 5, 1944 in Titel, Yugoslavia) is a painter. She is primarily known for her abstract paintings that have been exhibited in Republic of Serbia and the region of former Yugoslavia since 2010. Her work is associated with Minimal Art, Post-Minimalism and Lyrical Abstraction. Sylvia has participated in a number of group exhibitions and is preparing her first solo exhibition in an important contemporary art gallery in Serbia. She currently lives and paints in Novi Sad, Serbia.

On Sylvia Basic’s painting motives

Artistic endeavors are confined within attempts rooted in motivation as the propeller of creative energy. Motives for coming of artwork into existence are described by creative sparks assigning a painting’s life the specific sign. In course of the process, external motivation is very important, as is the positive will encouraging the author and providing him/her with a reason to release the encloistered impulse. It is in the dialogue led in front of the paintings, once the painter’s complex personality is revealed, when the memorable efforts take place and when the painter’s seductive play reaches its climax.

It is also when the coloristic layers of painted surfaces become unique windows to the world. They become the necessary breath steering the author into the new and insufficiently explored fields of the visible. Thus, strict limitations of artistic movements have no place here and the need for any comparison is indecorous. This is something the autodidacts know and feel best. Liberated from constraints imposed by artistic legacy, Sylvia Basic builds paintings of multifaceted meaning, through various passages of color, form and line. Arrangements of ideas in her abstract compositions prove best the extent to which imagination of a painter may range when yielding a painting of a persuasive and unique expression. Motivation coalesced with her personality has been leading her hand towards the canvass, while the paint materializes the suppressed emotion in the eyes of the beholder. Challenges encountered in course of the ardent work have only enhanced the strong desire to embody the painter’s vision.

A multitude of associations may be discovered within this rich kaleidoscope of themes, motives and brushwork techniques and the abstractly installed paintings, characterized by equally represented texture and intensity of painted surfaces. Individually distinguished from other paintings, Leda accompanied by a swan – into which the great Zeus transformed himself in order to become ever closer to her – signifies in the Sylvia Basic’s painting the melancholic nature of the female character. Sylvia Basic’s paintings makes readable the mythological layers of the hidden meanings of human personalities, predominantly on the crossroads of painter’s diverse feelings, unified in an attempt to refine the world around us.

 

Danilo Vuksanovic, M.A