2 Journal du jardin 24.03.2019 Fleur de cerisier #artistsupp (2019) Photography by Smiljana Frankovic - Karaman

Smiljana Frankovic - Karaman is a painter, sculptor and photographer who expresses revolt, pain and hope, the beauty and strength of human beings, the search for meaning, the intuition of the future and the memory of all that is within us. preceded. The interaction between the human world and the Universe. She experiments with new work techniques and movements, based on spontaneity, movement and the mastery of these elements. These works are a reflection of what is happening in the world, at every moment. It reacts to unacceptable things, it is its way of fighting against the violence suffered by millions of human beings, its way of continuing the fight of the generations that preceded us; it expresses the enchantment by the beauty of the world, of life in all its forms, the happiness of living despite everything. It is also a battle against the ugliness, the degradation which awaits us; the battle against nonsense, emptiness, boredom, indifference. It expresses what is unspeakable by words, what is beyond words. The bursts of happiness, the abysses of despair, the states of grace where, all of a sudden, everything seems to become possible and is, in reality, for a moment. She loves colors, works with pure pigments, the canvas on the ground, in her studio or in the garden, under the trees, which makes it possible to intervene in space, movement, breath, hers or that of the wind.

Smiljana Frankovic - Karaman is of French and Croatian nationality, born in Zagreb, capital of Croatia. His parents' families originated from the maritime regions of Croatia, Istria and Dalmatia and from Zagreb. His mother is a musicologist, his father an art historian. Married, three children. Teacher at the University, then artist. University studies in Croatia (Zagreb) and France (Clermont-Ferrand, Paris-Sorbonne). Bac + 5 modern letters. (DEA, current Master 2) she studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1955
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists