![]() ![]() It should be balanced, but not quite, precise but not perfect. Compositions are chosen to create rhythm and balance. Forms are stylized and colors are enhanced or left pure. Generally, the picture plane is flattened to emphasize the relationship between objects and to bring the viewer more closely into the scene. ![]() I was never concerned with accurately documenting a place, instead the paintings were attempts to conjure the essential nature of the subject and my own connection to it. Painting became my personal dialogue with naure. I started painting landscapes mostly to be outside. Her work is characterized by a flat color field with little evidence of brushstroke. Perko eschews the Group of Seven's reliance on the impact of brushstroke. Despite her efforts to flatten her planes of color, the artist manages to create paintings of remarkable depth and energy. Angela Perko has employed the "Seven's" reliance on bright colors with her own ability to reduce a painting's composition to a field of planes, each celebrating a color which at times is dissonant and at times harmonic to neighboring colors. ![]()
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