Eva Friskman

C ritical A nalysis
Art Critic: Karen Lappon

H appy - Glassfusing on steel, 30 x 30 cm

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Eva Friskman

V iew
Glassfusing on steel, 30 x 30 cm

S cout
Watercolour, 60 x 60 cm

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 The Critique
Eva Friskman is a Swedish figurative and abstract Expressionist
artist whose work encompasses a wide variety of media making
her, to all effects, truly eclectic.

What attracts the viewer at first glance, is Evas unique way

of making her joy of life a preponderant statement. Whether
it be watercolours on paper, painting on canvas, glassworks
or inserts, Friskmans essential, aprioristic spontaneity exudes
forcefully from her work and stimulates our intellection to the
point where we are compelled to question our feelings in the
face of such sublime delight.

Evas technical mastery in the use of colours to enhance her

expressive lyricism, is raw and essential in its simplicity. Waves
of bright and vivid hues sweep over her compositions, radiating
a harmony of visual purity that evokes a unique sense of
openness and delicacy in her seemingly unblemished approach
to the world around her.

Her vibrant sense of colour, imbued with deep emotions are

characteristic of a certain current of the Expressionist movement,
reminiscent of Helen Frankenthaler with her fluid shapes,
abstract masses and lyrical gestures, and of Morris Louis, in her
emphasis on the choice and combination of hues and technical
brushwork.

Friskmans subjects and graphic elements are nave and almost

childlike. They are strikingly evident in their directness, and
resonate sonorously with elation and gaiety. Whether they be
animals, flowers, pretty girls or completely abstract forms,
and whatever the means she chooses to express her creativity
through, they are always symbolic projections, yearnings for
a unworldly dimension of freedom, joy and elevation of the
spirit.

As Emily Dickinson said: Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense

of living is joy enough. Eva Friskman has certainly found the
ecstasy that gives her life purpose and meaning, and through her
talent, generously shares that sense of living with us bystanders
that through the mere contemplation of her art, experience joy
at its fullest.

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 Eva Friskman
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E njoying life
Glassfusing and painting, 44 x 66 cm

Karen Lappon, Art Critic

London, 2017
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