The Visionary Pictures of Surrealist Artist, Anna Chromy

This short article values the art by Anna Chromy, the European artist, by recalling my favourite selection of commentary and evaluation portrayed in the news during the seventies and 80's.

Chromy's paintings are an assortment of fresh artistic talent along with experimental use of perspective and colour. She uses surrealism together with authentic depictions of the human form to produce illustrations that are genuine yet unreal at the same time. In doing so, she has the capacity to haunt the viewer with the pattern and symbolism of her paintings for ages afterwards.

Critica de Arte, Madrid, October 1980: The paintings of Anna Chromy are remarkable for her amazing individualism.

ABC, Madrid, May 1980: Components of the symbolic as well as the surreal are united to deliver us with poetic paintings interspersed with a vision of the enigmatic. Soft colours and smooth shapes lend a strange and fragile quality to her pictures.

Radio Munich, Chronical of Bavaria, June 1977: A great mastery of space with a remarkably distinctive technique which works with the shadows, varies the light and creates a feeling of perfect equilibrium.

El Impartial, Madrid, April 1980: Transferred by her art into a land of fantasy and dreams - haunting and mysterious - bereavement and affection turn into an obsession and a pure game - her artwork is really a contest of ceremony and love is really a right.

Nord Eclair, Lille, May 1981: A banquet of colour and creation - making use of designs as jaded as birth, the sexes, the seasons, Anna Chromy still succeeds in both aluring and astonishing us.

Anna Chromy is symbolist in just as much as she works by using, such as Moreau or Redon, Greco-Roman mythology in a central European adaptation, filled with fawns and bacchants, nymphs and centaurs, and with naked heroes who appear to be carrying out some mysterious and unavailable initiation ritual, and so are taken by surprise at the intense curiosity of an outsider. But with the skill of Anna Chromy mythology is only a pretext of supplementary significance that allows her creative thinking to be sent to other lands, even extraterrestial, where unearthly creatures - or better, transphysical beings - float weightless in space without relation to real life. These characters belong to a world of hopes and dreams or a world of the subconscience so close to a Dali, a Fuchs or a Delvaux. Among the characteristics of this artist is her own universe without discrepancy of matter and form.

This lady's players and creatures fly, as though suspended in space - they transgress their particular rules of life simply by entering and exiting at will without the least revelation, they allow themselves to be shaded and melted progressively until they turn out to be an integral part of the very foundation of the painting or vice-versa.

Anna Chromy is remarkably skilled, and in the sober actuality of our modern day world, she encourages us to observe things in the areas of love, tenderness and virginal loveliness.

Votre Télé, Paris, November 1980: Through her works of art she encourages us all to pay a visit to the great worlds of her alluring inspiration.

Baroque, symbolic, sensual and feminine, the work of Anna Chromy ignite us using their glistening colours and unlimited variations

Surrealism is definitely living and expanding in the paintings of Anna Chromy. We gather that she will be undertaking no more paintings having devoted her time to sculpture since the early nineties. This tribute is in remembrance of the wonder of her surrealist pictures.