I got fascinated by autoportrait of one artist from 16th century, Italy, I sow in Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Sofonisba Anguissola.
I spent 2 months trying to get copy it, to work with it in techiques I am used to, trying to understand why I am so hooked, what this eyes are saying to me, trying to get rid of it.
I never ever did something like that before. It was fascinating, it was isolating, it was painful and also satisfying. That’s why I created own word for this period of my creative time Angu-Issolation. Here as a first original portrait, wich you can find in much better quality in a collection of KHM.
I read about artist learning from others in copying their work, so I tried that. But never went so far to try to copy it in oil, like original painiting is. Maybe next time. I was so fascinated by her eyes that I could not stop painting and drawing them.Few versions of it are here.First picture in this blog is a final product of that phase.
We have war in Europe nowdays. I sow one very brave artistfrom Moscow producing posters agains war. So I produced my version of it, still beeing intrigued by that serious eyes, I found some other portraits with serious eyes wich I used to draw that poster, also Rembrant came my way…
Finally, I tought, maybe try to get abstract ? First try was just drawing.
But then, my love for collage came trought.
Then I asked mysself, how she would look like, when she would live now ?
So I got my favourite interpretation, maybe the one I feel most connected with.
And then I created also stencil.
And those are stencil products, another way to create abstract copy of this great picture.
And then, as you can see bellow, one can go even furter on creating abstraction. Reducing number of lines necessery to still keep some relationship with a source.
With this two “drawings” I was able to say goodbye to this fascinating artist, and now I am free to start some new project.
I hope this was inspiring for you as a reader. Please leave a comment if you get in resonance with my work.It would help me to stay on track and keep publishing my works and ideas.
Maja Julijana B 
Hello Maja, I like your train of thoughts and creative process. For me, the last two abstract stencils are the stars of this show ⭐ Thanks for sharing.
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I really like your study of the original painting and where the original took you, just by playing and imagining, because you gave yourself enough time. The collage variants were particularly successful, in my opinion. My favorite is the first collage, with a particularly successful choice of colors, as well as the first stencil. Maybe you should continue on that path with a picture that is dear to you, or at least return to it sometimes
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Bok Maja,
već je naslov ove blogovske cjeline izazvao zanimanje, odgonetavanje … No prvo na web da saznam na što ukazuje, bilo je iznenađujuće saznanje da se radi o slikarici koja se uspjela tako istaknuti portretiranjem pa i autoportetima. Anguissola pokazuje svoje lice ali i skriva, oči zaista su “vrata” u tu osoba i samo su odškrinuta. Istovremeno sam iznenađena ali i uvjerena da si sposobna u da se krećeš u više smjerova. Oči su majstorsko pokazivanje! Jako mi je zanimljivo kako si se kretala od očiju pa do “apstraktnog” prikaza portreta pa do tebi omiljelih kolažnih radova. Mene je osvojio upravo onaj s kojim si i ti “najviše povezanom”. Iznenadila si me i “šablonskim” prikazom, zaista su mi posebni a zadnji crteži su mi dobar pečat za “reduciranje”. Čini mi se da će me tvoji radovi i putevi protresti i pokrenuti jer sam se nastalim slabostim gotovo umrtvila.
Grlim te, Vera
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Im happy to find your art and read about your process. Thanks for posting! All the best from Berlin, Germany!
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Thx Elizabeth !
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