Olga Terri
(1916–2011)
Houses Burnt by Joy. 1990-1991
Oil, canvas. 77 x 100.5 cm (framed)
(sold)
The suggestive painting with an unusual title was created during the revolutionary and pivotal years (1990-1991), when Estonia was freed de jure and de facto from the Soviet Union and began independent progress. Fire can represent either real or metaphorical burning, just like houses. The color of the painting seems to convey the temperature - the left half is hot, the right half is crisp. Thus, there are contrasts facing each other, which at the same time do not come into contact with each other.
Olga Terri's paintings are intelligently suggestive and often convey a quiet skepticism about subjects on which there seems to be a public consensus.