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Joint painting "Spring in Bucharest" was created in one of the locations in the center of the Romanian capital of art galleries by a dozen of amateur artists. Some of them were holding a brush and painting for the first time in their lives. Their efforts were refined by the hand of a master - a professional fine artist Anna Ravliuc, turning the scattered fragments into complete emotional canvas. |
Art works by Ravliuc Anna, who was born and raised in Ukraine and now lives and works in Romania, have absorbed the best artistic traditions of both the neighboring nations, which gave the world the ancient culture of Tripoli-Cucuteni, as well as such famous masters of brush, as Ilya Repin, Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Archipenko, Tatiana Yablonsky, Nicolae Hrihoresku, Stephen Lucian, Constantin Brynkushi and others. |
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Star Drops What matters it
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Daughter, Grown Up without Consent And you turn |
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[about Anna Ravliuc's art] to read more by S. David please click here. |
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AMMAN - Delicate and strong, real and mythological, pastel and bold, Anna Ravliuc’s paintings do not fail to transport the viewer into a world of their own, familiar at times, otherworldly at others. This modern impressionist Romanian painter who exhibits her works at The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, sensitive and deeply imbued with the traditions and legends of her people, is highly imaginative and allegoric. But she is an equally skilled observer, and portrayer, of customary life, certainly with artistic licence, with a twist. |
The patterns of the famous Cucuteni ceramics find their way on pregnant women bodies, ripe and erotic, ready to give birth or already holding the new life close, wrapping, cradling, protecting and loving it.
(...) Layers of paint, layers of symbols and meanings, intriguing worlds and characters.
Colours in the widest palette render Ravliuc’s images calm or fierily passionate. Pale pastels or intense tints create beautiful geometric patterns, swirling eddies, almost abstract images, still life and vast landscapes.
Delicate blooms and dreamy scenery find their way among the mystic images laden with symbols, but Blum’s paintings have mostly a hauntingly mythical quality. They are highly imaginative and passionate. (...)
"Anna Ravliuc - highly imaginative and allegoric"
Ica Wahbeh, Jordan Times, Jordan
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Anna approaches very cautiously the matter of oil painting technique knowing that only in this way she can assure a long future life to her works. She has long studied the old masters technique, afterward applying it in her works. She has rediscovered for herself the beauty of multi-layered painting which gives unusual depth to her works, purity, and brilliance to her colors. In order to achieve vividness and freshness of her paintings she works very quickly in the beginning, to return later with additional layers of paint and varnish to add new tint and meaning to colors, for tempering or stressing the general effect and for emphasizing the feelings her paintings convey… |
Anna Ravliuc has become a powerful impressionist, and chose the world of the Human Body as her another realm within which to communicate…
"What's New? - Just Cool!"
InterArt Gallery, NY, USA
Wrapped in dark mysticism and soulful beauty, Anna Ravliuc paints extraordinary images of figures, animals, and allegorical still-lifes in a distinctive yet artfully realistic style. Her work speaks of other worlds with hidden powers and limitless possibilities. The imagery is highly imaginative and saturated with fiery passion and artistic invention, constituting an oeuvre that is very unusual in the contemporary art world. With a special process that uses oils and varnish, Ravliuc applies layer after layer of paint with both her fine-tuned rendering skills and an effluence of sprays, scratches and drips. She has a wonderful sense for how the quality of light and dramatic gradations of color sets the stage for a sense of otherworldly amazement. Within the allegory of Ravliuc’s composition, she leaves enough of the story untold for the subject to remain mysterious and intriguing to her audience. With cryptic titles she ushers us into a realm that is littered with dualities, exploring birth and death, socialization and instinct, and, of course, the material and immaterial worlds. “I was inspired by pagan traditions and prehistoric legends of our ancestors,” explains Ravliuc. “The theme of good and evil, life and death is still forceful even nowadays.” |
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She has a mesmerizing style that is obviously beautiful in her composition, her modeling of light and her handling of the paint. The long limbs and sensual poses of her female figures depict an archetype of the powerful, mysterious and erotic female. Another figure that is characteristic of her work is the skeleton, seen dressed in costumes of the most exuberant pattern and color.
Embodying death, he often seems to cower before us as if the totemic symbols of fertility leave him in a trembling state. Her works nod to prehistoric belief systems in many instances, using totemic symbols to contemplate the changing seasons, and cycles of the moon and sun as a form of rebirth.
Ravliuc has had great success exhibiting her unique breed of art throughout Romania, Ukraine, and the United States. Born in Ukraine, she now lives and works in Romania.
ARTisSpectrum Magazine
Agora Gallery, NY, USA
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Timeless and soulful, the paintings by Anna Ravliuc can transport the viewer to a magical realm of beauty, terror and rebirth. Melancholy skeletons, totemic figures, magnificent horses and ancient symbols populate the world of Ravliuc's seemingly boundless imagination. With oil and varnish on canvas, she crafts her multi-layered pastiche with a tactile approach that includes scratching, paint spatter, colorful pattern work, and a brilliant, painterly sense of texture. |
"I was inspired by pagan traditions and prehistoric legends of our ancestors," explains Ravliuc. "The theme of good and evil, life and death is still forceful even nowadays."
Her paintings display a thespian appreciation for allegory; each element works in harmony with the next. Ravliuc's fertile symbols include crowns, planets afire, barbed wire and theatrical costumes, every work imploring a personal interpretation from the audience.
Born in the Ukraine, Ravliuc has spent her entire life in communion with the arts. She has exhibited regularly in Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, and across the United States. Ravliuc lives and works in Romania.
Art-mine.com
Agora Gallery, NY, USA
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Kann Kunst etwas bewirken? Darauf hat Anna Ravliuc eine klare Antwort: „Ich verstehe, dass ein Künstler keinen Krieg verhindern oder stoppen kann. Aber wenn es mir nur einmal mit einem Bild gelingt, dass jemand aufhört andere zu verletzen, dann weiß ich, dass mein Leben und mein Werk nicht umsonst waren.“ Romantisch? Ja! Aber keiner soll sagen: hoffnungslos romantisch. Denn wo soll der Mensch Hoffnung finden, insbesondere in Zeiten, in denen die Medien nur über die Krise berichten, wenn nicht in der Kunst? |
Der Mensch steht im Mittelpunkt von Annas Werken. Ihre Figuren wirken auf den Betrachter, als wären sie aus einem Theater- Stück entnommen, tanzend, musizierend, im Tango-Kostüm oder im Clowns-Kostüm. Dabei bietet die Inszenierung – so wie im richtigen Theater – Einblicke in Stimmungen, Gefühle und Charaktere. Anna Ravliuc sucht in der Inszenierung nach dem Wesen des Menschen: „Du kannst leicht eine Clowns-Maske oder eine Königs-Maske tragen. Aber das schwierigeste ist es zu lernen, die Maske deines eigenen Gesichtes zu tragen – und das mit Stolz. Ich möchte Engel und Dämon sein, Lüge und Wahrheit, Herz und Blut, aber welche Persönlichkeit ich auch immer annehme, mehr als alles möchte ich das eigene Selbst finden.“
Mann und Frau, gemeinsam oder einsam. „Ein Künstler, der weder die wahre Liebe noch die bittere Einsamkeit erlebt hat, kann in seinen Werken keine echte Aufrichtigkeit zum Ausdruck bringen“, sagt Anna. Mann und Frau im Hier und Jetzt, im Spannungsfeld zwischen Eros und Logos. „Die Frau ist, so wie das Leben, voller mysteriöser Widersprüche, und sie ist, so wie der Tod, immer siegreich“, bekennt sich Anna zu einer Welt, in der Leben nicht nur Harmonie, sondern auch Widerspruch bedeutet. Mann und Frau immer auch ein bisschen abwesend, transzendent, denn wer sich so intensiv mit dem Leben beschäftigt, beschäftigt sich natürlich auch mit dem Tod.
So erklärt sich auch der melancholische Grundtenor von Annas Bildern: Einerseits dominieren lebensfrohe Farben, anderseits zeigen ihre Figuren fast immer eine Haltung, die Trauer und Abschied vermitteln. Die Menschen, wie Anna Ravliuc sie sieht, befinden sich in einem Schwebezustand, dem Schwebezustand zwischen Diesseits und Jenseits. Jede Begegnung, jede Beziehung ist auch ein Abschied. Das betrifft die zwischenmenschliche Beziehung genauso wie die Beziehung der Künstlerin zu ihren Bildern: „Meine Bilder sind wie Kinder. Nachdem sie geboren sind wachsen sie auf und leben ihr eigenes Leben. Ich verstecke mich nicht hinter ihnen, und ich will sie auch in keener Weise beurteilen oder gar verurteilen. Ich lasse sie einfach in Frieden ziehen.“
"Anna Ravliuc:
Romantischer Impressionismus"
Vernissage Magazine
Thurnhofer Gallery
, Vienna, Austria
Ana reprezintă melodia rapsodiei gerswiniene a pânzei, flacăra iubirii mocnind a tandreţe, vălul feciorelnicelor cadâne, substanţa aprinselor pajişti în focul nervos al armăsarilor, nebunia clovnilor trişti, dansul plin de suflet al tamburinelor, freamătul peisajelor de sub cerul senin al primă verilor fără ploaie, verdele crud al vieţii pădurilor care renasc anotimpuriu. Iată de ce, Ana este azi prezentată în pagina de faţă. Dacă nu credeţi, căutaţi-i lucrările şi o să ră- mâneţi uimiţi a bucurie. |
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Ana Ravliuc, despre ea fiind vorba, o româncă născută la Cernăuţi, studentă a şcolii ruse de pictură, s-a stabilit în România şi face parte din pleiada de artişti plastici de mare valoare ai Uniunii Arti ştilor Plastici de la noi. Caii, arlechinii, florile, peisajele Anei răscolesc inimile iubitorilor de artă, dau o notă aparte evenimentelor de pe simeze şi scot la iveală rafinamentul unei zâne a culorii.
"Pictura ca iubire mocnind a tandreţe", Valentin Leahu
ATAC Online, Bucharest, Romania
My first encounter with the horses took place when I was around 4 years old. I will always remember that day... It was a summer evening and I was playing in the middle of the village street. Suddenly, I see my father running and shouting something, but I wasn’t aware of what it was. I wasn’t aware even of the carriage with wild horses that was coming at me from behind... |
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I stopped playing and looked very surprised at my father. Then I heard breathing behind me… I turned around… and I saw the Horse: huge violet eyes, soft lips and flared nostrils. The horses stopped right before me – by themselves – there was nobody in the carriage… Since then I have a special relationship with the horses. I love them and I trust them…
"Breathing behind me", Anna Ravliuc
International Equine Mural project „Le Cadeau Du Cheval - The Horse Gift”
Alberta, Canada
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...Tema principală a expoziţiei deschise la Schiller Haus, la al cărui vernisaj a fost prezent amba-sadorul Ucrainei, este floorea, în primul rând roza, pe care artista o înfăţisedzâ fie detaliat, într-o desfo liere aproape provocatoare, fie de la o distanţâ pudică. Din CV-ul ar-tistei aflăm că a avut expoziţii tocmai în Oregon, la Seattie şi Tacoma, deşi toate celelalte manifestări ale ei au fost găzduite în Basarabia si Bucovina. Expoziţia deschisă la Casa Schiller este prima ei apariţie în Bucuresti. Titlurile lucrărilor sunt uşor naive: Trio, Solo, Pastorală etc. |
Artista născută în Cernăuţi, care locuieste de doi ani în Bucureşti, manifestă o ingenuitate necesară la urma urmei într-o ambianţă artistică populată de fantasme, himere si alte imagini care contrazic vecinătatea agreabilă omului. Sentimentală, graţioasă, expoziţia dnei Ravliuc nu e atât o lumină de la Râsărit, cât o adiere.
"O pictoriţă din Cernăuţi la Bucureşti", D. S.
România Liberă, Bucharest, Romania
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Sensibilă, deosebit de talentată, dublată de o muncă fără preget, Anna Ravliuc s-a impus şi se impune în peisajul artistic naţional, dar şi universal. Gama cromatică folosită nu este desuetă, ci din contra, conturează discursul plastic al fiecărei lucrări în parte. Puternică, dar şi romantică în acelaşi timp, Anna Ravliuc, prin intermediul lucrărilor sale, te îndeamnă la visare, dar şi la o realitate dramatică. Modelele sale, feminine sau arlechinii, au o personalitate individuală, iar mesajul transmis de artistă este fără echivoc. Expoziţia este un regal. Expoziţia de la Palatul Parlamentului României, Eugenia Florescu |
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