Liana Gor

With enormous painterly skill, sure brushstrokes, compositional and color
tensions, Liana Goroian cuts through to the core, presenting humans as profoundly
tender beings or dark subjects, which seems to achieve the transference of
the traditional into the 21st Century.

Her traditional method known as Indirect Painting.

The painter begins with a general mapping out of the canvas in soft tones or
grisaille. With each stage, she builds under and over coats of glazes and
varnishes and layer upon layer of color, used brush and palette knife. Shapes and edges are develop.

For contemporary painters, these standards seem almost
impossible to surpass or even match. The question for today's artists--- who
work in a realist, pre-Modern mode, using varnishes, glazes, layering and
painstaking methods to achieve naturalistic three-dimensional rendering of
form--- is how to translate traditional methods into a 21st century genre?
Liana Goroian has not reached that exalted level, yet her mesmerizing,
existential approach to formal portraiture conveys what a Rembrandt or a
Caravaggio cannot, a contemporary psychological edge. Dressed in today's
relaxed garb, Liana's portraits communicate a modern persona with its sense
of freedom, individualism, naturalness, feminine and romance.

She found that through portraying a face or a full figure, she can reveal the essence of her subjects and thus perhaps a universal human truth.

By focusing on her subjects’ unique characteristics, she creates a mood and elicits a definite emotional response in viewers.

Gregory Norman

Gregory Norman is a journalist/writer specializing in visual art and related subjects.