Sculptor and painter

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Sculptures


When a sculptor like Mladen Simunovic devotes himself to nudes, horses and eagles as his sole themes of modeling and -at the present time- uses traditional techniques like clay, plaster, wood and cast bronze in which art interlocks with the exploration of the most diverse ideas and media and multiple forms of expression, one could infer that he doesn’t care about today‘s trends and precepts and looks only into his inner experience and passion. But by no means is he less courageous than a legion of „more” contemporary artists. Neither it can be viewed as a compulsion for maintaining and preserving the „tradition‘, since this kind of stance would inevitably lead to a resolute and (more adamant) artistic ideology. Simunovic lives with the „old“ themes, he strives to interpret his own viewing and his own ability in dealing with...


Paintings


Simunovic also paid intensive attention to painting and drawing. He works on a dualistic level painting nudes: on one hand he detects in the display of a female body several different constellations for rotating, turning and varying the position of volume, form and color in the becoming of structural variations of compositions. On top of that it is a personal hommage to the secret and mystery of the female. In regards to color the artist paints also two variations of nudes: he painted one part of the nudes in blue tones with white accents transmitting the impression of the voluminous and sensual beauty of female bodies. The other part of the acts he painted in reddish and yellow ocher tones. In the same way that he uses white accents in the blue-colored nudes he uses specks of lighter yellow accents in order to give volume...