|
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Andreas Brandt
Rot und Schwarz, 1991 |
 |
|
|
This painting we see here is ‘Red and Black’ by Andreas Brandt. It is extremely simple, with a amazing clarity and a vivid rhythm. Although the four red squares hug the left hand edge of the painting and the black bar is firmly anchored on the right edge, the painting does not fall apart into two halves. Instead, because of the arrangement in horizontal rows, we tend to see four pairs of opposites layered horizontally, one on top of the other.
The painter also succeeds in making the white area appear not empty, but as a tension-filled interspace. We do not view the rows by 'reading' them from left to right or from up to down. Instead, a rhythm builds with increasing intensity from the bottom up. The artist describes it like this:
|
|
|
|
Brandt's paintings often operate with arrays and repetitions, but they should always be seen as independent and complete works.
And that order has arisen equally through calculation and intuition. It is balanced and harmonious - and it plays a role in the process of creating the painting:
But, the artist adds....
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
