Maria Stangret

(b. 1929)                                                                                                                                               Painting, environment, theater, literature. Rich colors and a light, expressive line dominate her paintings in the initial phase of her artistic career. Over time, a more rational approach to the creative process supplants her spontaneity. She begins introducing additional objects into her works, transcending the domain marked off by the surface of the canvas and the classical imagination of the form of the painting. In her work, she integrates and annexes the space that „belongs to” the viewer, who is drawn into the multiple significances of the games she plays with art.