Ivars Heinrihsons
(1945)
Ivars Heinrihsons - painter, professor of Conceptual painting's master-workshop of Latvian Academy of Arts.
Ivars Heinrihsons is the most brilliant representative of lyrical neo-expressionosm in contemporary Latvian painting, in his exguisite achromatic colour pallete the black line or square is the very basis - expression and stability.
The painter's sources of inspiration are very specific and reflect the internal forms of his ego's self-expression:
- Horses as natural expression, a gesture embodying all human emotions;
- Grand piano - as a sign of culture, bearer of classical values;
- Ballet - striving for the ideal, the fragile, the white.
Ivars Heinrihsons subjects various technical means of painting and kinds of art - drawing, photo, three-dimensional art - to his own expression. He views everything in motion, expression and dynamics dominate also in composition.
Heinrihsons's horse, horse mortification, mad runs or horse dances. They use to be fighting and lyrical, sad and playful, paradical ceremonial and breakable like they were made from porcelain. Now and then they are running to fly up in the air like they were in a flight. Ivars Heinrihsons always emphasizes that the horse is inside of the painter like the typical form of the nature. And in this moment form is in the Harmony.