Jolanta Johnsson
Black Eye
1999

Name: Black Eye
Brand: Jolanta Johnsson
Price: 250 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Black eye – Jolanta Johnsson, experienced Polish artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PhD of fine arts, university teacher. She currently lives in Sweden. This is how she writes about this drawing: The Black Eye flower drawing is in black and white. I was drawn in pen and ink. Is this the proper technique for depicting flowers? The flowers are colourful. Their beauty comes from their form, colour and scent. They are a wonder of nature. Nature is inventive in creating flowers. And to think that flowers perform an important helpful function – they help plants to reproduce. All these fanciful forms, colours, scents, petals, stamens, and pistils, are there to attract an insect or any other animal that will move the fragile structure of the flower and pollinate it. The sweet taste of the nectar and the scent of the flower play a decisive role in this process. I admire flowers and do not need to remember their importance in the life cycle of a plant. Observing the structure of a flower occupies so much that my attention is focused on its design. Of course, the center of the flower attracts the most attention, especially when it is a sunflower. I look at it and it seems to be looking at me with that big black round eye of its and invites me to draw sunflower eye drawing. I reach for a pen and ink and draw a picture of the flowers as if I were an architect drawing the structure of a building. I create a flower drawing. This time, I am not a colourist, no Claude Monet lilies are present in the drawing. Two starry flowers are looking with their black eye. This drawing is an example of my fascination with these flowers. I feel that I have not fully expressed it through individual drawings. I am sure that in the future flower drawings sunflower will occupy a prominent place.

Creator:

Jolanta Johnsson (1955)

Creation Year:

1999

Dimensions:

Height: 16.54 in (42 cm)Width: 11.62 in (29.5 cm)Depth: 0.12 in (3 mm)

Medium:

Ink,Paper

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century