The Space of Painting Hedonism
In her artistic practice over five decades, Marija Dragojlović has created a capital of intellectual foundation whose respectable artistic ideals are close to 'the principle of flatness on which the painterly culture of Byzantium, the Far East, and, in modern painting, the great experience of Matisse are based.' Certainly, with the maturation of poeticized plastic solutions of work, over the past decades, she has conquered an autonomous field of the image, emphasizing in close-up a motif that loses representational dominance. It can be said that the emblematic points of Marija Dragojlović's artistic career are marked by a special concept of a nurtured creative process. In these turbulent times, crises of ideals and criteria have sharpened the conviction even more that only strong personalities, despite serious turbulence in all areas of life, manage to nurture creativity, like this painter.
