In English blue is sad and reflective
in Polish – it is rather out of/ this world.
The sky is blue, the sea – azure.
The eyes may be blue.
Despair is navy blue.
On the palette blue is opposite to warm colours – blood-red and yellow earths.
It is cold hut not always cool.
It is an improbable colour, in other words – artificial, dedicated to art.
It is a colour well-liked by artists of various professions: stenographers, fashion designers, film directors, photographers and video artists.
It is not only a colour of the background, a supplement of various representations.
It is a meaningful colour and intended to denote. From Blue to Big Blue.
It is not colour preferences but the metaphysics of colour, which explain why it wins the hearts and conquers the minds of artists.
It is a colour important in itself, significant; for some of us – it is the most significant of all colours.
Yves Klein used it to “stamp” his canvasses with blue-painted bodies of his models.
The body ceased to the the body, it changed into an archetype of the sign. It became meta-painting, meta-art.
It was a thin blue line, which divided the real and the created worlds in Edward Krasiński’s pieces.
One is certain, it is a colour of the dreamers.
Objects marked with blue melt away and sink in the depths of the blue of water.
In accordance with Archimedes’ principle, they lose their material weight. Like clouds, they seem to float in the infinity of the blue(?) sky-blue(?) space.
It is difficult to perceive this colour differently when one looks at Anka Brudzińska’s works.
Why? Because it is not only a pigment she likes better than other pigments. It is a colour of her choice!
Even if the title were not Sky Blue, the colour itself would seem suggestive.
Naturally, it is not one colour – it is a whole range of tones.
From pastel bluish while to nearly black ultramarine. There is Parisian blue and funeral violet. Sometimes it is brilliant, sometimes it becomes nobly mat.
Anka strives to endow blue with depth, with heavenly inspiration – she swirls and interweaves it, blurs and distills.
What counts in her monochromatic preparations is gesture, gradation of feelings, saturation with movement or with inertia.
In her artistic laboratory a line changes into a colour patch, and it concentrates into a line.
It looks for the second bottom, the promise of secret.
Anka`s painting may thrill not only due to their aesthetic values.
The spectator’s attention is rather caught by her consistence, obstinacy with which she spins visual values out of one colour.
After all, her paintings show many faces of only one colour.
Closed in retorts, crammed in flasks, painted over canvases.
And yet it always remains blue – the sky-blue illusion. #annabrudzinska anna brudzinska anna brudzińska #anna.brudzinska
Agata Saraczyńska