Hana Jaeger ART Habens are accentuated in my painting by foreshortening of the body and by the protruding legs at the foreground of the painting .
Another example is the pieta pose that appears in the " Golden Legend " ( legenda aurea ). The particularly touching pose depicts a superhero compassionately cradling in his arms another superhero , like Mary cradling the broken body of her son , Jesus . There ' s also a reference in my paintings to the Classics . In his poem , Ars Poetica , Horace coined the term ' deus ex machina ', which is alluded to in the painting of the automobile mechanics under a car , who ' re in a situation where humans might find themselves praying for help , with no exertion , from someone , anyone , not connected , not expected outside source – maybe Superman ?
The world represented in my works calls for thinking about the voyeuristic experience of painting . It is a world in which peeping turns out to be an impossible , unfocused contemplation of a kind that is trapped in the contours of fantasy . The works direct the gaze toward the back of the subject of the painting , the forbidden gaze echoing questions about its ownership , about the prison of the gaze . The painting suggests the toughness of disorder , the liquidity of the sign , dirty in one world but clean in another . The power of the painting is in the looking at the heart of existence , in order to make its perversions reverberate .
A well-known Israeli artist Pichhadze asserted that life is like a snowball that rolls and in time more and more life stories stick to it and in the end enters the studio . My biographical background certainly resonates in my work , whether I like it or not . I paint things that are here and now . Everything is close at hand , simple small scenes and I tell them my way . Even though my father ' s Interior Code Painting , an autobiographical idiom that appears and reverberates in my paintings , the scenes seem to be universal ones and convey such familiar emotions that anyone can relate to them . My inner self is expressed in the way the stories are presented , in the characters , in the places , in the interaction between them , in the composition , in the colorfulness that I choose , and even in the manner of applying the paint . In my opinion , good art can ' t be detached from direct experience . It ' s got to burst out from the artist ' s bowels .
Body language is most important in my art . The face is physiognomy-free , or by virtue of the composition it isn ' t visible at all . It ' s important for me to convey things with a
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