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regard towards the nature and ordinary objects, giving them inner harmony and deeper-ethical meaning. Olav Maran’s masterful painting technique makes the objects seem real in everyday environment. In his few portraits, "Graphic Artist Sylvia
Liiberg" 1981, is probably the most notable. In his ascetic nature paintings, artist is realizing his philosophical aspiration to show the great through small and complexed through ordinary. These simple compositions convey the overall notion of truth. These simple compositions convey the overall notion of truth.
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Maran started to participate in exhibitions in year 1959. He has mainly done paintings, and very few graphic works e.g. a ply wood cut („The Street“, 1960).(3) In the beginning of his career Maran was very interested in modern art movements. He executed his first abstract paintings between 1957–59,
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Maran was a second child of
Elfriide Maran, who later become a sculptor, and a police constable Alfred Maran. In the year 1938 Elfriide Maran moved to Tallinn with her two children, there Olav Maran started a Secondary School at Tallinna 10. keskkool, where he graduated from in 1953. After that he
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At that time, Maran exhibited in public exhibitions mainly with simplified-form townscapes and still life paintings. His motifs have been taken from the less representative areas, especially these from the beginning of 1960s, when he lived close to Paper Mill and painted the factory itself and the
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In 1968, Olav Maran experienced a religious turn, that changed his understanding of the world and artistic values. From that period he has mainly depicted realistic landscapes, flowers - amaryllises, lilies, peonies and still lifes in the style of old old masters. In these paintings he shows his
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in the journal „Estonian Youth“. He received some information about western culture also through the art magazines of socialist countries. In the 1960s Maran experimented with different modern styles, wanting to introduce the experiences of modern art into
Estonian art. His main medium was oil
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surrounding neighborhood. These “Severe Style” paintings express the characteristics of that time period: the gloominess and bleakness, propensity to avoid capturing the beautiful and idyllic (“Autumn Sun” 1961, “Winter
Townscape” 1962). From the time Olav Maran lived in
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painting, but he also used gouache, tempera, pastel and collage. Being one of the leading avant-garde artist, Maran gave lectures and published articles about modern art.
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In his portraits, artist concentrates mainly on form and colour, not as much on the psychology of man.
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