Expressive and even epic pictures by Anna Brudzińska refer to the elements. Sky and fire take their moods and scales from the artistic experience of the artist. Anna Brudzińska watches the elements, studies them and contemplates their multiple incarnations. She does not, however, considers them as mimetic parts of meteorological storms and dancing flames, which are photographed and used as illustrations in scientific albums. Her pictures look like registered images of hurricanes, gigantic cyclones and fiery eruptions. They are not incidental registrations. They show their transient nature.
The artist concentrates on basic phenomena, on their existence and on their ontological character. She reveals their changeable and secretive condition. Brudzińska’s elements come from her imagination. They are stories of vitality and drama. They have the character of subjective beings and emit particular emotional temperature. We can acquaint ourselves with those elements, we can touch them, although they seem to be dangerous and untouchable.
Brudzińska’s style is located between total abstraction and the figuration of unusual phenomena. There is nothing more exciting than what we find between the two realms, and what is undefined and secret. Fulfillment comes from our own experiencing of the intriguing pictures. They might, at the beginning, seem to us as familiar images, because we see typical situations and we can refer to our own artistic experience.
We might even compare the pictures to the 19th century expressionist paintings. Brudzińska’s style resembles some technical methods of the 19th century artists, but her compositions seem to be going beyond the frames of pictures. Her pictures resemble the 19th century landscapes, although there were no artists in the 19th century, who would dare to show the sky without showing land and/or water. Brudzińska reminds us of the colors used by Monet, Pisarro, Seurat, van Gogh, Cezanne and Picasso, and the sensitivity of Yves Klein and Barnet Newman. Nevertheless, our ability to compare is not enough, and we have to discover new spheres of artistic imagination. Anna Brudzińska concentrates on permanent change and instability, but she does not produce instable images. She shows, instead, harmonious symphonies of colors, temperatures and intricate light. She shows us the sphere of freedom beyond gravitation, and the touch of sublimity.
Igor Wójcik