"Vesely creates dark icons worthy of El Greco, but with a softness reminiscent of Michaelangelo's faded Sistine Chapel ceiling frescos. Her composition and subject matter have a timeless quality and a confidence that warrants such historic references."
She creates dark icons worthy of El Greco's 'Laocoon' (1610), but with a softness reminiscent of Michaelangelo's faded Sistine Chapel ceiling frescos. Expertly, Vesely dissects and reflects the monumental figures in her paintings, treating them as structures to contain the emotional life existing within the body of each figure.
That is not to say there is anything derivative going on here- Vesely absolutely belongs to the now. Her composition and subject matter have a timeless quality & a confidence that warrants the historic references, in our opinion, but the narrative is entirely relevant to the 21st Century.
The fact that Vesley's angels and demons are fighting virtually the same battle in the 21st Century as they did in the 16th & 17th Centuries, under the Renaissance & Mannerist Artists is either reassuring or worrying, depending on your perspective.
