TOO BEAUTIFUL TO BE TRUE,

abstract oli painting (canvas 140×100)

Property of the artist

Special Thanks to Eva Malm

ABOUT THE PAINTING “TOO BEAUTIFUL TO BE TRUE”

About my painting ‘Too Beautiful to be True’ in Biennale Arte Dolomiti, I must first explain how I do art. I apply my feelings onto canvas with the paints and brushes. I never plan ahead what I am going to paint, nor need I an inspiration. When I start painting, the feelings just come to the canvas and the colors choose themselves.

When I heard the theme for Biennale Art Dolomite 2018 is ‘Rose Garden’, I went to a library and found a story about the king who came to Dolomites and thought: ‘This is so beautiful’. But then he thought: ‘This is too beautiful to be true’.

All my life I have been afraid that, if something is too good (and for me beautiful is the ultimate good), it is not real and that I will lose it.

In this work, I decided to face my fear of losing everything. When I started this painting, the most beautiful things in my life and our world came to my mind and I expressed and applied them onto a canvas. My style is abstract and I hope that those who love art as much as I do, find their own happy memories in my painting.

This painting is dedicated to Eva Malm. <3

19 years old Kara Luhtanen has studied abstract painting from 2002 to 2016 in Annantalo Art Centre for Children and Youngsters. She will graduate this spring from Rudolf Steiner School and was accepted for four years undergraduate Art Direction -program in Polimoda, Firenze. She will start her studies in Firenze in October.

Kara’s art has been shown in several group art exhibitions in Finland. Her paintings have been sold to private collectors and investors.

Biennale Arte Dolomiti is the first exhibition outside Finland where her art is exhibited.