About Ivan Lenardic, Bled, Slovenia

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Water Of Life

Artist Ivan Lenardic

Ivan Lenardic' paintings, charged with an abundance of substance, represent a true curriculum vitae in which life resounds sweepingly with its rules and contrasts; life which joins hands with love and hate, compassion and indifference, aggression and peace, purity and licentiousness, dreaminess and sobriety, youth and old age, hope and death. Ivan Lendaric is a painter whose works are impregnated by a specific atmosphere full of tension and dynamics. It seems as if an invisible flow of energy is connected to the painter's work which is distinguished by a variety of motifs to a complete entirety. Despite the narrative and creation of figures and settings with a touch of realism in author's paintings, there is a constant irrational ingredient interlacing with surrealistic tendencies, with the insight in the man's interior without being burdened either by strings of the reason or the prescribed standards. A tangible object or a figure in the painting often becomes a reflection of an idea or a subconscious experience, just as an author's inclination to express himself in symbols often obscures the narrative scenery built on realistic or pop art bases.
Ivan's work contains another vital substance - his social involvement that occasionally suffuses the depth of his artistic narrative like a delicate echo. Furthermore, one should not overlook the presence of a poetic component in these works since it can often soothe the potential sharpness of the painting's basic conception.
This description of Lenardic's work would not be complete without emphasising the role his potrayal of space plays, together with his use of colour when creating the basis of a painting. The space with its confinement and openness together with the profuse colouring and balanced use of light has a considerable influence on the mood as well as on the emotional and symbolic expressions of his compositions.

Cene Avgustin, Ph.d.