Enter The She Exhibition

A picture of "My Mother" shows an older woman with a thoughtful expression and a soft gesture of her hands. It depicts human sadness and grief at a mother's spiritual torment.

The author has built on the academic style, skillfully overcoming the static nature of the figure and giving it a more individual, warm atmosphere. The portrayed woman is holding a sheet of music, a reminder of the individual's intellectual, creative and spiritual virtues.

The painter created a composition in a Symbolist style. The two images are rendered in profile and are surrounded by a conventional closing plan with a complicated pictorial surface.

Tseno Todorov's works are realistic and deeply psychological. The artist emphasizes the depiction of the face and the clothes and hints relatively highly at the surroundings. The portraits are truthful yet poetic.

This female portrait is in a neoclassical manner.
The artist conveys the female image in a frontal pose with maximum clarity of form. He achieves emotional impact through contrast, conveying classical severity and serenity in the image.

Vladimir Dimitrov-Maistora sought to create a "national decorative style" in form, content and colour. The artist used the principles of Byzantine painting and the expressive power of colour to convey the beauty and spiritual power of the Bulgarian woman.