painting series - Tamara Jare

Landscape painting roman ruins in Ostia Antica cont’d

Feb 25, 2021

Landscape painting Roman ruins of Ostia Antica is the recent painting series of mine. I’ve worked on it since the Covid- 19 pandemics has started and subsequently we got stuck in quarantine. What has started as reveries and remembering some travels at first, has become a much loved painting subject of me. I’ve loved history since I can remember, Roman history is a subject I could read about hours and hours. No doubt this has been part of the reason of my artistic diving in the scenography of ruins, silent witnesses of forgotten times. But then so many connotations have emerged while I’ve been studying the subject to work further on. One of those is certainly the fact that inhabitants of Ostia, like Romans, experienced many waves of malaria outbreaks. The 9th century A.D. outbreak of malaria in Ostia even left the city abandoned. Absolutely grateful for the vaccine and the fact we won’t need to leave our homes I still do think about the cyclical nature of the history, the fact that as humans we remain vulnerable even today. Which makes me wonder: What is going to stay…

Some Latin phrases:

Espice, adspice, prospice. / Look behind, look here, look ahead.

Vide et credere. / See and believe.

Verba volant, scripta manent. / Spoken words fly away, written words remain.

Quindquid latine dictum est, altum videtur. / Anything said in Latin sounds profound.

Aude sapere. / Dare to know.

Natura, artis magistra. / Nature, the mistress of art.

Qui scribit, bis legit. / Who writes, reads twice.

Tamara Jare Slovenian painter landscape painting of Ostia Antica ruins in Rome Italy colorful figurative artwork shows white marble statue in brick wall nook and remnants of antique Roman walls painted in vivid bold colors pink, red, yellow. Seen are some pine trees and part of the garden in parco archeologico Ostia Antica Roma Italia tourist attraction. Wall art in vertical portrait format painted with strong brush strokes and with palette knife. — Landscape painting Roman ruins of Ostia Antica

Painting series ostia Antica new piece

Nov 12, 2020

Painting series Ostia Antica has kept me busy since the Covid- 19 pandemics with lockdowns has started. Still remembering the day I’ve taken a new canvas from the stack, put it on the easel and sat in front of it. A luxury I love the most, just to paint whatever calls me at the moment.

Just imagine. We’ve been under the first lock down in Slovenia, I’ve been staying at home and dreaming about the summer to come. It has been obvious we’ve got to stay at home for at least a couple of weeks. So the reveries have come up my mind. Remembering Italian summers. Remembering Rome. Remembering pine trees. Remembering the freedom of traveling.

And as I’ve remembered walking Ostia ruins I’ve seen the striking analogy between remnants of lost civilization and our times. An archeology museums aficionado and history lover, I’ve got immersed in the subject I’ve never before considered as my painting subject. Indeed, I’ve just loved working on the subject, letting it evolve into a painting series. Here comes a new work from the series. And which comes up to my ind is a wish, to be able to visit these places soon…

My new Ostia Antica painting is made in oil on linen canvas, measuring 60 x 75 cm.

Please find here some Latin sayings:

EXEGI MONUMENTUM AERE PERRENIUS: I have made a monument more lasting than bronze. Horace, Roman poet

MATERIAM SUPERABAT OPUS: The workmanship surpassed the material. Ovid, Roman poet

SOL OMNIBUS LUCET: The sun shines on everyone, Gaius Petronius, Roman writer

DE GUSTIBUS ET COLORIBUS NON EST DISPUTANDUM: There’s no arguing about tastes and colors.

My new Ostia Antica painting is made in oil on linen canvas, measuring 60 x 75 cm.