Printmaking/Monoprinting
Anelia Pavlova began her career as a printmaker in Bulgaria. After graduating from the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts with a Master of Fine Arts in 1983, she invented her own printmaking technique, which was used in all subsequent monoprints. In printmaking this is regarded as a very significant achievement, because of the limitation of that artistic medium. Her monoprints are described as oil painting brought to the world of printmaking by a number of reviewers - "... creating graphic art with the tonal intensity of oil paintings", also: "Pavlova's intense use of color ... creates a very similar visual effect to the historical oil paintings to which her work refers. Hence Pavlova presents something of an integration between the two artistic techniques of printmaking and painting".
A number of her monoprints take their beginning from the art of the Old European Masters, and can be seen as re-interpretations of the same subject in the medium of the graphic art - "In the graphic cycle "Memories of Old Holland" the artist "quotes" and paraphrases elements of the works of the old Masters ... but the idea of A. Pavlova is not to create an adequate reproduction of masterpieces from the past ... The link ... is achieved through the interpretation of the recipient - only an individual reading may actualize the past."
The artist has also used traditional Australian imagery in some of her prints, including Aboriginal themes ("Pavlova doesn't use only Western art traditions ... her etchings employ images from the aboriginal culture of Australia, often commingling symbols of this indigenous culture with Western images. In "The Dream of the Fishes: Traveling to Jerusalem" - a whimsical play on the nativity story - a man and woman with an infant ride a horse together, the couple embodying the very clash of two artistic traditions: the representational Anglo woman in a white dress contrasted against a brilliantly blue, almost abstract Aboriginal man." )
During the period 1983-2009 Anelia Pavlova has shown her prints in approximately 20 biennials, triennials and other international printmaking exhibitions.
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