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 Eva’s unique way of making her joy of life a preponderant statement. Whether it be watercolours on paper, painting on canvas, glassworks or inserts, Friskman’s 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. Eva’s 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. Friskman’s subjects and graphic elements are naïve 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 w w w . e va f r i s k m a n . s e
“E njoying life ” Glassfusing and painting, 44 x 66 cm
Karen Lappon, Art Critic London, 2017
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