Here is what Anuli Croon says about her work on her website.
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My paintings and works on paper show constructions that represent figures, interiors, and parts of cities as autonomous identities.
The figures as well as the urban fragments are composed of an assemblage of visual elements of different origins.
In a painting I always take my departure from varying viewpoints/perspectives. This way the paintings are becoming constructions that are open to several interpretations. The body shapes, noses and hands are stylized, the ambient features are made up of evenly looking planes and patterns.
In my work I aim to combine different viewpoints in order to achieve a convincing picture. Basically everything is equally important and weighs equally heavily. I make no distinction in terms of time or style: classical, modern, folk art, fashion, textiles, architecture, art, comic strips – anything that comes to mind crystallizes out and I force it together in paintings to give it an individual identity.
My influences are diverse:
Modern art, applied art, folk art; tapestries and textiles; comics and graphic novels; posters, stamps, book covers from various times and cultures.
– Artists: Giotto, Malevich, Roy Lichtenstein, Holbein, Seurat, Zurburán, Rogier van der Weijden, Philip Guston, Jean Brusselmans, Hendrik Werkman, Saul Steinberg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Charley Harper, Patrick Caulfield, Matisse, Ikko Tanaka, Escher, Dick Bruna, Yrrah, Charles & Ray Eames, Alexander Girard.
These influences have fostered my imagery and strengthened me in my ambition to find what I was looking for. My paintings relate to a crystallized reality, but not in the form of a story. It is rather a matter of interrupted narratives and connotations that resound in the space. The viewers can wander among the various painted layers, or via the tangent planes where the layers converge.
In the paintings there is no centre; everything seems equally important. They are intangible puzzles that do not allow repetition or unambiguous explanations. This way the paintings are becoming lucid and autonomous constructions that are open to several interpretations.
