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ANETTA STYLIANOU
Anetta Stylianou was born in Zimbabwe and graduated from Salisbury Polytechnic. She has been awarded Honours from the Rhodesia Institute of Allied Arts. She emigrated to Cyprus 1977, and since then has taken part in numerous exhibitions in Cyprus and overseas: Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea 2003, in Florence, Modern Art Management, Austria 2007, the Third Beijing International Art Biennale and the Olympic Fine Arts Exhibition, China 2008, the fourth Beijing International Art Biennale 2010, China 2010 and the fifth Beijing International Art Biennale 2012, China 2012.
She is a member of the Portrait Society of America
OFAA (Olympia Fine Arts Association) and the Chamber of Fine Arts Cyprus
When she selects a subject for her work she finds herself empathizing with its emotional nature. It is for this purpose that these subjects have as commonality the promotion of noble human emotions and at other instances criticize their corresponding opposites. The emotional state is then conveyed and amplified in a harmonizing combination of vibrant colours and unifying living forms. Within her work she evokes realism for its ability to project an outlook of life, which unlike abstraction, is characterized by solidity, gravity and clarity. The final outcome is then complemented by the application of impressionistic techniques that aim at rendering visual objectivity; an ingredient which she considers enhances the communication between her work and the viewer whose eyes happen to fall upon it.
Her works (the majority of which are commissioned portraits) can be found in public and private collections in Cyprus, Europe, America, the Middle East, and Africa.
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