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Marija Tanaskovic Papadopoulos

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About The Artist

...I was born in Belgrade/ Serbia in 1976 where I graduated at the University of fine Arts in 2001 as a Sculptor .Currently I live in Chicago with my husband, where I am working in art studio as a fine artist and as a graphic and web designer, too. My idea was to adjust and use my talent in various ways .One of them was creating the illustrations and finishing them by computer programs in order to give them impression of air brushed artwork.However, in the same time I like to create miniatures out of clay, and traditional oil on canvas, aquarelle and acrylic paintings , pastels and photography.Working in many different materials helped me to understand that the essence of art is the "powerful message received" and hidden between the words,symbols as much as in the radiation of color and shape.


    The possibilities that computer programs can give to creative people are really unbelievable. For example Photo Shop artistic tools are becoming more and more flexible, and they could be used today as much as traditional materials in fine arts.

Paintings are  more expressive and less detailed than my illustrations because the material used is not letting me to follow the idea in the same way .

I like the "digital touch up"of my drawings, because it saves me time and it gives the great variety of colors and compositions. My Illustrations are computer generated pictures where the presence of the vibrant colors are helping me to create the impression of the dreamy atmosphere .

Also, I am sculpturing miniatures in clay because the smaller size is helping me to control the composition and manipulate the shape. That way I can achieve the monumental impressions by simplifying the works,
so that the future projects could contain the same, but enlarged composition .

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As a matter of fact, the strongest impressions usually cannot be described by words, but by the nonverbal communication, where the visual arts belongs at the first place. I came up with the conclusion that the Great Works of Art, did not make people only spiritually enriched, but they are the major contributors to our civilization. Great works of Art are reflecting not only our impressions about them, but the deepest wishes, which are following every human being.

Through my education and many years of work I found out that the Visual Art is all about passing that energy to other people through her symbols and vibration of : lines, color wave lengths and shapes in the surrounding space, while the meaning of the artwork is not only what composition actually presents, but a specifics coded structure of that artpiece, that makes a human being able to notice a beauty
as a source of harmony.

Changing the mood in the observer and trying to shift his thought process, to make him think positive by exposing that person to my creations, is only one of many things I am trying to achieve.I am looking for the psychological influence of the visual adds that are carrying the aesthetical value, because they are presenting the example of the visual harmony (Beauty).

However, my goal is actually to show that the achieved visual harmony has a code that an educated observer needs to follow and translate at the language of science. Today's achievements of modern medicine, chemistry, psychology, can include the contemporary visual art as one of the sources for decoding the cure for many different diseases and much more than that.

So, Art could be understood as the knowledge stored for new science turnaround towards the new sources of energy which exist within us, energy which is produced and dictated by our brain, and it could be, also, triggered by some visual adds if they would carry the powerful
aesthetical code for this kind of energy production.

Today it is known that the human brain is using less than 10 % of its capacity and nothnig more than that has been scientificaly proven yet. However, by exploring art, we could move our understanding of the way we are living today because Art was always opening new doors of our psyche that we never even knew, existed.

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Jesus Of Nazareth and a Blind Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY7vamVg99E

Neural Feedback: Brain Influences Itself with Its Own Electric Field
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=neural-feedback













































 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 



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