| Verika | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Verika |
| Born | December 16, 1979 |
| Nationality | South African |
| Field | Painter, Drawing |
| Training | Ruth Prowse School of Art, Cape Town |
| Movement | Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism |
Verika (Born in Pretoria, December 16, 1979) is an South African, abstract expressionist painter focusing on femininity and sensuality.
She has Fine Art diploma, majoring in painting and mixed media at Ruth Prowse School of Art.
| Artist | Verika |
|---|---|
| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 100 cm × 190 cm (39 in × 75 in) |
| Location | Private Sale, Cape Town |
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Her art can currently be divided into two themes. The first contains abstract landscapes with small unidentified figures occupying a small section of this landscape. The second one is a sensual figure that evolves from a colour landscape and occupies most of the painted surface.
| Artist | Verika |
|---|---|
| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 60 cm × 60 cm (24 in × 24 in) |
| Location | Private Sale, Cape Town |
Her medium is oil paint, although she likes to sometimes incorporate other mediums such as enamel, charcoal, oil bars and ink. Her inspiration derives from the German Expressionists and Fauvists due to their expressive use of colour and she is also inspired by Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach for their amazing painting techniques and their ability to create thousands of meaningful layers on one single surface by only using oil paint.
Her primary concern is not to create art that incorporates intellectual purpose and meaning, but art that evokes a sense of emotional connection and aesthetic beauty. Her theme is human emotion and interaction between people in the context of a relationship. These emotions include happiness, tranquility, completeness, passion and comfort.
The consistent element which is characteristic of her work is the colour red, which creates a warm and passionate atmosphere and the organic forms and lines which contribute to the paintings femininity and sensuality. Each of her paintings looks different and each tells their own stories. They are each unique in their own way.
Her brush strokes are expressive and rhythmic. Each brush stroke is there for a reason and each one contributes to the beauty of the painting. Each strokes is painted with raw emotion and feeling, in true Willem De Kooning style.
Verika is currently busy painting distorted figures in an unknown, abstract landscape. She combines the idea of a figure with the lines of organic objects such as seedpods and shells where the space is ambiguous and is created through colour rather than lines. The figures are not specified, they are mere entities placed in a colourful space.
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