The She Exhibition - PART 2

Elisaveta Konsolova-Vazova, a Munich-trained artist, embraced Impressionist principles. Notice the soft contours in this portrait of a young Czech woman, painted in 1931.

Bencho Obreshkov is one of the most prominent Bulgarian expressionists. He lived in Paris and studied at the Dresden Academy of Art.

Vera Nedkova is one of the biggest names in Bulgarian painting from the 1930s. In the composition "Nude - Sleeping", the artist managed  the "pictorial-plastic" approach - a balance between modern  colour and synthetic realism.

Vera Lukova won a gold medal for painting at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris. She used an outline to create the creative form (a pictorial-linear approach).

The artist contributed with her art to forming the Bulgarian artistic culture of this period. She constructed images with laconicism of the plastic image, achieving a generalization of form and a fine, smoothed texture.

Svetlin Rusev creates a physical and psychological portrait of his mother. The closed and static image suggests absorption, contemplation and acceptance with trials of fate.

The artist chose women as the main subject, expresses deep female psychology in his compositions with nude  bodies, and constructs the images with both artistic freedom and expressive plastic language.

In her paintings, Maria Zafirkova achieves a cinematic effect. In the late 1970 and early 1980s, the painting revealed reflections from photography, film and other arts.

In Portrait of Adi, the artist brings out the image, using his erudition as a good draughtsman with heightened fauvistic colour to create a work with modern aesthetic qualities.