Figurative Popular art by Mariana Kalacheva

My usual art techniques are oil painting, acrylics or mixed technique by incorporating art materials from the reality and the daily life of the observer.
It is a mixture of light, images, pattern, texture, color, figuration, art nouveau, secession, abstraction, surrealism and naive deformation of the detail which often converts to a three dimensional space.
The typical foundation materials are organic handmade paper, dried flowers, oil and acrylics, scrap of old oil paints, Venetian plaster, ceramics, fabrics, structure pastes and sands. I sometimes finish the composition with golden leafs to emphasize the embellishment often interpreted as a piece of secession ornament.
I like the provocation with the contradicting structures like matt and glitter, simplicity and complicity, thinness and thickness of the shapes.
It accomplishes my perception for a completion of the composition.

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