Color, brightness, gesture (paintings and felt)
Exhibition of Artistic Pavilion “Flower Zurorić” – 1992.
DOBRINKA KRSTIĆ BELJIĆ presents to the Belgrade visual audience this Philippine cycle as a painter of expressive individuality and original aesthetic insights. Without the desire to incorporate into the current artistic situation, it has been building a special world of art for over two decades, inspired by the exotic and beauty of Asia, especially India and the Philippines, their culture, traditions and customs.
To say that this painting belongs to the expressionist style circle, there is neither a complete complete nor a sufficiently accurate statement. Her image is made up of great emotions, strong experiences and exciting rhythms, it is shown as a synthesis of the seen, experienced and thoughtful, as the unity of motive (inspiration) and language structures (which also imply the painting matter and the principles of one’s own poetics). Since expressionism, it has the gesture of gesture, but without that traumatic attention to the dark layers of the being and its destiny. Her gesture is in a brilliant connection with the light and fullness of matter, with the feeling of inner freedom, sometimes in the immediate function of the expression of elemental color strength.
The motive is here only as a starting point, as an introduction to the painting magic that transforms everything seen and experienced into the beauty of the painting act, into fine harmony, unexpected contrasts and large totals of meaningful and visual sense. This also applies to oil paintings (which are mostly large in size), but also to those specific, unusual painting works done on our special felt paper, which give this painter new possibilities. On them miraculous harmony of cosmic spaces and human cravings for stellar infinity were achieved. There are unusual colorist compounds, gentle overflows of ocher, yellow, blue and red, achieved in a quick, immediate touch of spirit and matter.
Thus, two principles are combined: expressionist-drama and poetic-lyrical.
Sreto Bošnjak