Susan Stanek has a variety of styles of art that she produces. From her daily life and education she has taken inspiration for her life long studies. Below are samples of the changes in styles and also academic references.
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LIFELIKE
Nature scenes and animals depicted in a lifelike manner.
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SURREAL
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GOTHIC
Haunting images set in cinematic lighting. Natural landscapes and figures appear reduced in form. Somber pallet, and use of shadow become typical. Gestural brushstrokes and hatching is used to create both depth and movement.
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ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES
Uses large blocks of color to depict a landscape. Variations within create depth, light, form, and what ever objects within that are seen by the viewer become the subject. Viewers might be inclined to invent objects through the gestures and shapes.
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NIGHT TIME LANDSCAPES
As Monet captures sunlight within his paint, the Night Landscapes are intended to capture the moonlight. These types of paintings may resemble the likes of the Abstract Landscape type paintings.
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NON-OBJECTIVE
Non-objective is different than abstract in that abstract is an object that is reduced in form or distorted, while non-objective compositions begin without an object. Most of these type of paintings do not have an up or down. The composition should work which ever way it is hanged. |
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ILLUSTRATION
Usually ink drawings with encoded lyrics. The influence of each period is found in illustrations such as this. |
ANIMAL FORM Animals are depicted in a way that shows their personality, natural movement, reduced forms, gestural studies, distorted or anatomically precise figures. |
Academic References
Late Renaissance
Susan Stanek's Venus. Watercolor. Susan Stanek
Venus of Urbino. 1538. Oil. Titian Impressionism
Sunset in Trees. Oil pastel. Susan Stanek Impression Sunrise. 1872. Oil. Claude Monet Romanticism
Gothic. Oil. Susan Stanek
Cloister Graveyard in the Snow. 1810. Oil. Caspar David Friedrich Art Nouveau
The Peacock's Room. Ink. Susan Stanek
The Peacock Skirt. 1894. Ink. Aubrey Beardsley
