H2O

This work connects to the bizarre romaticism of the Pre-Raphaelites. In the paintings of this avant-garde brotherhood, water has a leading dramaturgical role. Still waters of ponds and creeks make scenery in female portraits filled with remoteness and dreams. The atmosphere that the Pre-Raphaelitic brotherhood created in thier artistic action is a riddle in art history. The impression of escapism combined with sensuousness  is bewildering.

The escapistic trait was a protest against realism and practicalitys of the industrial age, a reaction against the determinism of a closed view and stringent frameworks. The human call for dreams, perspective and liberation gets stronger in captivity. I find a correlation to this in the present day, as politics interfere with the academies and curatorial programs encroach upon arts sanctum.