From the newspaper: L'Echo De La Bourse, Actualite Des Beaux-Arts:
Stephane Ray : Reality, Reveries, Cavalcades
Simonida is a young Yugoslav (Serb) ennamoured by monumental visions. Pictures which she brought along with her from Belgrade are in general of great size. They are figurative, full of spasms, powerful and marked by baroqueism, romanticism and symbolism. They arose to the mind of William Blake, Genesis, and the turbulent decent in to hell. Simonida likes unusual poses, poses with challenge, which emphasize sprained limbs, background of bones, frightening mutations. That kind of ART, which with hidden lust caresses the monstrous and complicated, has its value.
There is a greatness in it, power, desire to be expressed beyond the conventional and habitual. Simonida's art reflects great security, assurance; it is, as an inspiration of an artist, surprising to find in a young women who is 26 years old.
One should be very careful about this evocation of the mystery of creation of man and towards the mutations which arise from it. Gouaches and drawings bring us to think of the frightening compositions of Lebenstein.