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DRAGAN MARKOVIC MARKUS
art now Lives and works in Šabac, Serbia

http://www.artmarkus.com

About his artwork, Markus says, ”The figure is my deepest choice. This is
my field of exploration for a possible expression that will realize the unity
of form and meaning. In my opinion, the image has to carry an energy
charge that destroys any indifference to the observer and leaves a strong
impression on them. If that charge does not exist, the image is empty.
My paintings are a product, a reaction to my life experience, based on
my experiential relationship with the given reality; my poetics is actually

on that dark side of life; personal and general. Maybe my pictures are
on the other side of beauty, but I want to express the feeling of horror,
fright, the tragic side of human existence. Painting, although created
within one direction or artistic influence, is of a deeply personal nature;
the search for the meaning of life occurs only within the boundaries
of individual self-confirmation. My attention was directed towards the
essence of a painting which is observed through a specific prism of
personal sensibility, in search for a painting as a personal reflection.
During the research and presentation of the works from the “Scream”
and “Figure and Space” cycle, I tried to affirm an emotion as a dominant
substance of a painting, and thereby as a substance of human existence
and survival, regarding the painting as a product of emotional reaction to
certain traumatic experiences, both personal and global. One can pose
a question if an emotion, in the era of affectation and totalism of digital

 Head, 2000 acrylic on hardboard 15.7x11.8 in. | 40x30 cm.
 Red Female nude, 1997 acrylic in canvas 47.2x235.4 in. | 120x90 cm
Scream, variant I, 2012 acrylic on cardboard 39.3x27.5 in. | 100x70 cm. 
Scream, Variant II, 2012 acrylic on cardboard 39.3x27.5 in. | 100x70 cm. 
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