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Praying Mantis (Mantis religiosa)

During the process of creation, abstract configurations balanced and supporting function for the form. This line is
experience a revival to become a lively and stirring anchored in the bottom part of the painting by means of a
existence under the brush of Erica Fromme. shape angle that appears laterally, also painted in black,
Erica Fromme brings a fantastic creature to life which so that the praying mantis is balanced instable equilibrium.

seems to attain an everlasting existence through the Her figure is not static but rather understood as a dynamic
reducation of technical means in accordance with the shimmering through the finely drawing wings and limbs.
pointer’s artistic impulses, using but limited means in There are, as is the main part of the body, pointed to
regards to form and color. tones of gray, supplemented by three smaller dot-like red

Constructed of elementary geometrical shapes such surfaces which point to the insect’s vigilance and desire to
as circles, ellipses, triangles, and rhombs, the creature catch a prey. If one were to connect the red dots a quasi
of the praying mantis looks out through an utterly mirrored image of the black line would appear. By the
mathematical structure in its individual constitution at means, equilibrium between the insect’s livelihood in its

those contemplating the picture communicating to them its composition and its acts of impulse comes into existence.
existentialism, its dedicate body shape, and its decisive will In a figurative sense this painting by Erica Fromme
to live. The individual parts are held together by means of embodies a strong will to live, the beauty of the creature,
the zestful black line which similar to our spines forms the and a great deal of luck in existence.
Dr. Marta Oberrauch-Melniczuk, Philosophical Art Critic

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