Helena Stockar
Testimonials
John Pantalone, Art New England
In large oil and watercolor canvases, suggestive to a degree of de Kooning and Max Weber, Stockar employs some of Chagall’s storytelling techniques. Whichever emphasis she chooses, Stockar manages to avoid clichés. With flattened perspective, rich color and strongly shaped personalities, these figures transcend the realm of symbolism to possess definite character traits, a technique often difficult to achieve in such work
Sylvia Smith, Newport This Week
Stockar’s style is expressionist. She creates not only strong images of people struggling against the natural environment but the inner emotions of people … exploring the relationships between natural events and social injustice. She looks back on the traumatic times in Europe during the Cold War when families were broken apart and loved ones were lost to a system that made no sense and had no compassion
Doug Norris, North East Independent
Stockar, an internationally known artist, paints expressive, somewhat abstract images of faces and figures, often grouped together. Her images collectively suggest the strength of human relationships as bonds that endure. The work has a touch of Munch in its humanity and feeling, a dash of Chagall in its dreamlike quality, but in these dynamic experiments of color and form, it is Stockar’s distinctive vision that comes through each canvas
The Warwick Beacon
Stockar has a hand for the lyrical as she paints the world she left behind – the country people, the mountain villages –and the “New World” she has embraced
Newport Daily News
Stockar has been painting vigorously and profusely for years. Her broad expressionist canvases are motivatedby a humanism and a storytelling more akin to Chagall … Stockar paints with her emotions over and over again … she most often solves difficult artisits problems because her technique is strong
Caude LeSuer, Art Speak
Strong tonal contrasts give startling force to the figurative fantasies of Helena M. Stockar, in which boldly simplified human forms emerge from brooding darkness. Working in mixed media on large sheets of paper, Stockar seems to wrest her figures from an all-encompassing void
Awards
The Finalist - International Art Competition
1984
Los Angeles, CA
U.S. Art in Architecture Program
1978
Washington, D.C.
National Competition of a Children's Book Illustration
1965
Prague, Czechoslovakia