Alo Hoidre 1916–1993 White Sun. 1980s

An abstract painting can be viewed in many ways. In most cases, there is a temptation to read some of your own meanings or interpretations into it. For example, Alo Hoidre's White Sun may or may not depict a high-roofed cabin, although the title focuses on the circular geometric form at the center of the work. The sun is extremely difficult to paint, unless you want to create a pictogram or an illustration. We see a hodgepodge of enjoyable picturesque geometry.
Although Alo Hoidre's life is associated with the privilege of the Red Army and the Soviet era, the pre-war school of painting in Paris as an ideal, which was promoted by the Pallas art school in Tartu, still left an indelible influence on him as a painter. Just as several Pallasians who emigrated abroad came to abstract art after the war, so did Hoidre. Feelings play an important role in his painterly abstractionism.