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Also, the colors, vibrating, ringing, luminous have a remarkable contemporary society, with an attentive analysis of the anxieties and
importance because take again her simplicity, her spiritual wealth, her dreads of varied nature experienced by the contemporary man, through
soul’s force, humanity’s energy her positiveness. and expressiveness always to the badge of the originality and of idea’s
The dramatic strength of the human experience, the vision of the singularity, of the propositions, thoughts, programs, technical and
surrounding environment, the beauty of the universe in her compositions practical answers always brilliantly solved thanks to her vitality, to her
seem to loose their dimension, reality, for to develop in an extraordinary spiritual energy, to her positive creed in the life and in the art. I can say
abstract-geometric composition, singular, unique, between signs and that in her painting the color’s brilliance acquire the faith’s sense in the
symbols, which clear up wonderfully the meaning and the message of society and in the life itself.
the work.
When Diane Holland is in a more tranquil psychological condition,
In my opinion, we must put in evidence that Diane Holland expresses when the life’s circumstances of every day to her offer some instants
through her painting as well as her intention to live in a different world of spiritual peace, the atmospheres of her compositions acquire some
and human condition where it is still possible to have the dialogue chromatic and graphic valences, which are very dear and appreciated
between the men and where the human being can again try to laugh, by the impressionist painters. The stroke of the brush becomes sweet,
to joke and to be enchanted to the sunset, far away from the pollution delicate, and brief and a halo of mystery of mysterious charm winds
and from the incessant run to the consumer goods and to the social all the context of the canvas. With her velvet stroke, she renders
escalation. For this reason, we can affirm that the artist is rich in warm particularly suggestive nuances of the colors the sign is less incisive, the
accents of lyric poetry, tools of the spirit, which ravish all of us. outlines of the painted objects assume some aerial, ethereal valences
of extraordinary chromatic charm. . In my opinion of her very notable
She can re-create on the material support, her spiritual world, among qualities, purely pictorial, particularly noteworthy are the spatial power
thousands of psychological nuances, her perturbations of woman of and the liberty to interact, sign and use colors to obtain, like this, her
artist, with a valuable harmony of signs and colors among images, which art works.
contain profound meanings. Guising, dynamic, lively her
spirituality!!! Her artistic personality is no doubt very living, All this does not put in the least a discussion of the
remarkable, efficacious, modern, participating open at the oneness of her style because her palette is very moved and
thousand problems and at the learning themes of our times. variegated and as well because her extreme sensibility and
her expressive strength are exceptional and the painter is
We must agree that her creed in the art surmounts every able to express oneself with different rhythms and timbers
frontier and every barrier of currents and of styles of the of varied intensity.
present and of the past and wakes oneself in virtue of a
creative strength, particularly fertile and singular in the I don’t link to be wrong, belied when I affirm that Diane
modules and in the models. I could list all the wonderful Holland has undoubted natural endowments which are
works of Diane Holland. I cannot. I’ll list only some, just augmented with the time, above all at her search in the
like at random: “Mystic Encounter, “Dynamic”, “Live Connection”, “The outline of the figurative arts and when I affirm that the artist has deserved
Ninth Woman”, “Exuberant”, “Abstract Rhythm”, “Lines of Illusion”, the flatter consents from the public and from the criticism in the past.
“Time Exploration”, “Midnight Splash”, which in my opinion represent
the marvelous synthesis of her human qualities and of her irresistible In Conclusion, in my opinion, Diane Holland is a woman of great
expressive capacities. personality, endowed with poetical spirituality and with notable artistic
experience to the beginnings of the third Millennium. AD MELIORA!!!
We’ve noticed which dynamic propulsive energy, which involved,
intricate soul’s conditions, which treats hidden inside the twists and Antonio Malmo (essay, 15/3/2007)
turns of her spirituality, the artist has proposed through her painting, Art Critic, Expert on Modern Art, Member of the Editorial Staff of Academy
where is visible besides the variegated images of the nature and of the of Florence Magazine 15/3/2007)
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