Single piece Signed Dated Titled
From the series agens
agens LII
Year
2022
Medium
Paintings
Reference
38e946c1
The broad series "agens" interprets the music of the German composer Heinz Winbeck (1946-2019). Interestingly, Heinz Winbeck is not known to have experimented with the aforementioned space notation. He is counted among a group of composers who, in the post-war years, dedicated themselves to the "New Simplicity", a movement against the increasing complexity of musical parameters towards a progressive but simple tonal language. This music thrives on long, flat moments, which at times present powerful outbursts of sound, but always think in broad and lively colours. Bernhard Paul translates these sound surfaces into visual surfaces: dabs of color, which he meticulously blurs together after application so that only a hint of the original color strength remains, create a ghostly washed-out color landscape. The blurring leaves slight vertical and horizontal contours and offers the observing eye elegant accents that the otherwise homogeneous surface would hide. Similar to Winbeck's "New Simplicity", Paul always follows a subtle color catalogue, which rarely contains more than five shades. In this way, his pictures achieve an external visual calm and are nevertheless full of driving vitality.
1970 , Germany
Music was visualized right from the start of abstract painting. Whether with Kandinsky or Paul Klee, both artists attempted to represent music in the course of their work. It is similar with Bernhard Paul. Bernhard Paul is a lover of modern classical music, from composers like Eric Satie, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Georg Friedrich Haas and Edgar Varese. The musical work of those artists serves as the inspiration for Bernhard Paul's non-representational painting. However, it is not the tones, as with Kandinsky, or the recognition of the pieces that are essential for Bernhard Paul's work, but rhythm and beat. By repeatedly applying different colored, glazed brushstrokes, a rhythm is created on the canvas. The works created in series are characterized by a uniform brushstroke that is applied to the canvas in different ways, vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Other works stand out due to their teardrop-shaped brushstrokes, which create an unusual flatness and depth.
Address
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