The Art of Edna Dali 2.5

Edna Dali is part of the prevailing tendency in contemporary art of breaking the walls between: different categories of art, between art and reality and between arts and crafts. Through her characters she makes statements, confronts questions and touches personal-excitation and communal problems. Her open-eyed approach, love of truth, detection ability, sense of humor and precision and accuracy of performing are joined together to create her special works of art. The characters are sometimes exaggerated and even grotesque and they are searching for equilibrium and harmony. Her natural senses and abilities combined with the experience of human encounters, she gained while working as a social worker in the early seventies, led her naturally to prefer human figures. At the beginning more women and girls with emphasize on their clothes and accessories and later on also men. Her search for beauty, accuracy and perfectionism until the small details can be detected in her styling. She succeed to portray psychological feelings and most of her characters are shy, introverted and do not gaze directly at the viewer. She captures with nostalgia memories of the beautiful aspects of the fleeting decades like: the Renaissance, the Victorian and the Romantic eras and 18th century ladies. She succeeds to depict accurately the special atmosphere by using suitable garments, accessories, original jewelry.