Rune Venjar Paintings
oil on canvas

    Ever since his versatile college education in visual arts in the seventies, he

    has focused on women in his work as photographer, cinematographer and painter.

 

    This has given him a rare opportunity to study the lives of modern women at close range.

 

    As a contrast, he has studied historical and religious representations of women in

    churches and museums all over the world. And he still got upset by the condescending

    and demanding representations; whether the women get mistreated or pacified until death.

 

    Many of these condescending representations are dictated by religious leaders,

    who were contractors for most of the painters in earlier times. These patrons lived

    in celibacy and were unanimous in their oppression of feminine power and strength.

 

    In our time the modern woman has to a great extent taken charge of her sexuality. The

    problem rests with the male, who is still influenced by the old religious beliefs; he

    wants the whore and the Madonna in one and the same person.

 

    This conflict has enough power to fill up books and magazines for years to come; How can

    men and women interact and understand each other when she no longer functions as his

    appendix? But quite on the contrary feels independent and filled with her own desires?

    In his work he tries to mirror this complex story in colors and motives that move beyond

    the historical and psychological realm.

    His purpose is to portray the female and basically the human force in a simple and

    non judgmental way

 

    Hopefully this will move and strengthen people who see them