Jordan Manasijeski is a painter of the Ohrid vicinity, the Mediterranean south of his homeland Macedonia. His realistic impressionist approach has matured from object description to liberation of the stroke and color within straight forward visual perception. The local tone is gradually substituted with unconstrained coloristic solution, emphasized light and typical lake sceneries and old town architectures. In these works the spontaneity of his approach is combined with methodical distribution of the coloristic spots as well as certain motif stylization.

In his latest series of paintings the author rejects reality as a straight challenge in the interest of creating paintings from imagination. The baroque from, based on intensive color corresponds with the disturbing pictures inspired by reality, as well as the unleashed drives of the unconsciousness. The motifs are presented in the stile range from semi figuration to the sign or abstract solutions. The author has fulfilled his artistic message and notion through rhythmical strokes and rounded mosaicly arranged coloristic structures . The actual sensations coexist with the yearn to dematerialize the object notion or touch the essence of things.

The light and the dark, the cold and the hot, the holly and “the horrendous”are entwined in a dynamic balance in these unusual art compositions.

The author has realized pure visual sensations in another series of paintings. Using intensive colorist accords he creates an effect of spatial suggestion close to optical art.

 

Ph.D. Vladimir Velickovski