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Oil Paintings by Manya Vaptzarova
Bulgaria

Manya Vaptzarova lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.  She was graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, with a diploma in graphic arts, in 1986.  Since 1994 she has been the Assistant Professor of Art at the Academy.

Her award-winning artwork has been exhibited in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, and Yugoslavia.

 

A review by Plamena Dimitrova-Racheva

"The art of Manya Vaptzarova has its genealogy in the European artistic tradition.  It is related to the figurative composition and the portrait, to the classical techniques of the art of painting, drawing, and metal engraving.

"Her artistic imagery is inspired by a creative dialogue with the old art of portraiture of masters such as Holbein, Durer, and Hals.  The images in her kind of art are imbued with authorship, duplicated by a new spatial close-up version and are updated from a modern point of view.  Her images are of people endowed with eternal youth of simple mortality.  They can age, lose their flesh and become ghosts.  They can also transform themselves with imperishable beauty into eternal ideal entities.  That is the allegory which Manya Vaptzarova discloses for the art, its essence and meaning.

"Her characters have dropped their 'masks' which quite often cover 'metaphorically' the images in the Bulgarian works of art of the 80's.  They appear like mere inventions from the world of art in which the artist wanders mentally and aesthetically.  Her works are not mere portraits or portrait compositions.  They are artistic 'metaboles' of characters and ghosts from the Shakesperian theatre of life.  They are images exciting with their new touch for art in the art itself, addressed entirely to psychology and the human soul, where all things are so vulnerable and spiritually uplifted."

 

Painting entitled Portrait with Bottles by Manya Vaptzarova

"Portrait with Bottles" by Manya Vaptzarova
Image Copyright © by Manya Vaptzarova
Oil on canvas - 92x73 cm

 

Painting entitled Portrait with a red hat by Manya Vaptzarova

"Portrait with a Red Hat" by Manya Vaptzarova
Image Copyright © by Manya Vaptzarova
Oil on canvas - 42x37 cm

 

Untitled painting by Manya Vaptzarova

Untitled image by Manya Vaptzarova
Image Copyright © by Manya Vaptzarova

Painting entitled Woman 9 by Manya Vaptzarova

 "Woman 9" by Manya Vaptzarova
Image Copyright © by Manya Vaptzarova
Etching, aquatint, dry point - 60x90 cm

 

Painting entitled Woman and a Bird by Manya Vaptzarova

"Woman and a Bird" by Manya Vaptzarova
Image Copyright © by Manya Vaptzarova
Etching, aquatint, dry point - 12x16 cm

 

Painting entitled Woman 3 by Manya Vaptzarova

 "Woman 3" by Manya Vaptzarova
Image Copyright © by Manya Vaptzarova
Etching, aquatint, dry point - 25x28 cm

Manya's website is http://www.go.to/manya
Manya's email is manyavap@yahoo.com

Originally published Nov 13, 2000.  Republished Apr 8, 2008, with minor edits. 

Page updated Apr 8, 2008

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