Self Directed - Artist Research Margarita Lipinska

I found this artist in a gallery whilst on holiday in Cortona, Italy. We had a lovely conversation about her paintings.

Born in Poland in 1964, Lipinska graduated in Painting at the Danzica Academy of Fine Arts in 1989. 

From 1991/2 she continued her studies in Rome having been awarded a scholarship at the Sapienza University.

She has lived and worked in Rome as an artist since 1991. Her works have been displayed in numerous public and private collections. Her painting is a search into time and an interchange with the present in the awareness of our belonging to Western culture with Greco-Roman roots. Ancient art and legend represent solid ground which she can creatively explore while faced with a present full of uncertainty.

She creates large-format works executed with acrylic colours on jute canvas treated with highly textured plasters, often engraved and contaminated with the presence of different materials. Sometimes the works have no frame to enhance the softness of the canvas that takes on the appearance of a tapestry. This was something she spoke to me about in-depth, how she doesn't like her artwork to be restricted and framed.

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Her work is a reinterpretation of neoclassicism enriched by a refined use of basic materials, jute, velvet and cardboard on which colouring and shapes take on an amazing three-dimensionality, letting emerge in a chromatic range studied in the details that make unique and immediately recognizable works.

Lipinska is a figurative poet, a timeless painter, an alchemical artist who sinks her brush in the best tradition of art history through three millennia with a non-trivial mannerism, enriched by her whimsical touch of sudden and provocative colours, almost a desire challenge the canons the absolute and universally recognized beauty of its representations.

I could define it the most sublime of the contemporary "graffiti" I came across, knowing its profound nature and the humanistic, historical and enlightenment culture from which a true artist cannot fail. be contaminated.

I have taken great inspiration from her use of bright colours and bold backgrounds and hope to carry this forward with my own work.

I managed to get hold of some velvet to have a go at painting on velvet myself but due to coronavirus, I didn't have space or materials at home to carry this out.