"The Passion in Progress
It is easy to stroll through the luxurious garden of visual surprise that is Jaanika Talts’ creative vision with desire to do nothing more than let your senses feast on the splendor before you. The canvases layered with bold color contrasts, montages of images that create allegorical portraits of individual subjects, and jeweled compositions suitable for royal occasions elevate her chosen mediums and viewers appreciative of the work. As much as this experience of sensualized transcendence satisfies the souls of art lovers, one feels compelled ––as humans often do when confronted with mystery in the form of brilliance–– to claim an even deeper comprehension of the passion in progress.
The body of work by Talts (to which this writer has been exposed thus far) moves elegantly back and forth between two dominant styles, or qualitative techniques, that might be described as emergent expressionism and transformative impressionism. The first should not be confused with “emerging expressionism,” indicating that period of art which revolutionized visual aesthetics during the early 1900s. The emergent expressionism referred to here denotes that aspect of Talts’ more abstract work which reveals an individual personality evolving toward a coherent definition of herself as an artist whose time has come to paint the language of her soul."
Editorial written and published in Examiner.com by Aberjhani, Award-winning author, editor and poet.
