LINES by Maia Oprea

Dominated by a fever of lines, the series of abstract paintings “LINES” could be characterized by the very definition given by Michel Seuphor to abstractionism: "A painting should be called abstract when we cannot recognize any of the objective reality which consists our lives' normal environment; in other words, a painting is abstract as soon as we are obliged, by the absence of any sensible reality, to consider it as painting in itself, to judge it by virtue of values extrinsic to any representations or any reminders of the representation."(own translation)

Hatred against words who do not help me is greater, as I have no possibility to punish them for their disobedience. Therefore, sometimes, I talk in “lines”...

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