Extensive travel, marriage, and family, as well as a career in art, theatre, and the film industry (under another name), have made for a colorful and enlightening life for Vika C. Press. She was born at the beginning of World War II, and sometime during that global maelstrom was discovered to be a child prodigy. At age 3, she began drawing animals; at 6, she was creating watercolors of beautiful medieval ladies; at 9, she was painting full-length oil portraits from live sittings; at 15, she created and painted Chinese silk scrolls.
Vika was awarded a full college scholarship and graduated with a BA in Art. She continued to evolve with a MA fellowship in Theatre Arts. Her side interests were dance, music, history, psychic phenomena, and the POWER OF INTUITION.
Today Vika works mostly in pastels, although she creates in other mediums depending on the subject matter. She also enjoys working in 3D art such as clay sculpture.
For the film industry, Vika honed a unique expertise in the ability to render all artistic styles: impressionism, expressionism, abstract, art deco, medieval, ancient Egyptian/ Roman/Oriental, American advertising derivatives, and a host of others.
Upon request, she has intuited the manners of many masters, some of whom are Rubens, Reynolds, Monet, Pollack, Warhol, Bierstadt, Lichtenstein, and O'Keefe, and of young children, asylum inmates, and many others.
Vika's personal style is representational with impressionistic overtones, both evocative and realistic, depending where her intention leads her. She paints what she sees, and sometimes she sees a lot more than expected. Vika's art is NOT didactic and does not need lengthy paragraphs of explanations, philosophies, or viewpoints hanging next to her work. The visual should tell a story, show a mood or emotion, a personality, a moment, a beauty -- without words. The TRUTH of an image is produced by the inner core of the artist through technique, traveling directly to the viewer's higher consciousness. Good visual communication is beyond intellectualizing.
Each painting is a tiny part of the artist and should be absorbed by the viewer as part of his own life experience, without diluting intermediaries. After all, the final goal of art is RAPTURE -- that is, to transport the viewer directly out of themselves and onto a higher plane of existence. Just see the look of rapture on the faces of museum patrons standing in front of Botticelli, Monet, or Henry Moore.
Vika was awarded a full college scholarship and graduated with a BA in Art. She continued to evolve with a MA fellowship in Theatre Arts. Her side interests were dance, music, history, psychic phenomena, and the POWER OF INTUITION.
Today Vika works mostly in pastels, although she creates in other mediums depending on the subject matter. She also enjoys working in 3D art such as clay sculpture.
For the film industry, Vika honed a unique expertise in the ability to render all artistic styles: impressionism, expressionism, abstract, art deco, medieval, ancient Egyptian/ Roman/Oriental, American advertising derivatives, and a host of others.
Upon request, she has intuited the manners of many masters, some of whom are Rubens, Reynolds, Monet, Pollack, Warhol, Bierstadt, Lichtenstein, and O'Keefe, and of young children, asylum inmates, and many others.
Vika's personal style is representational with impressionistic overtones, both evocative and realistic, depending where her intention leads her. She paints what she sees, and sometimes she sees a lot more than expected. Vika's art is NOT didactic and does not need lengthy paragraphs of explanations, philosophies, or viewpoints hanging next to her work. The visual should tell a story, show a mood or emotion, a personality, a moment, a beauty -- without words. The TRUTH of an image is produced by the inner core of the artist through technique, traveling directly to the viewer's higher consciousness. Good visual communication is beyond intellectualizing.
Each painting is a tiny part of the artist and should be absorbed by the viewer as part of his own life experience, without diluting intermediaries. After all, the final goal of art is RAPTURE -- that is, to transport the viewer directly out of themselves and onto a higher plane of existence. Just see the look of rapture on the faces of museum patrons standing in front of Botticelli, Monet, or Henry Moore.
ABOUT VIKA
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