Parisian 5
huile sur toile, 100×100 cm
As always, the finished painting questions me. Because it is successful only in proportion to how much it has exceeded my intention. It speaks for itself. What does it teach me? This question is part of the fascination. If I compare this “Parisienne” to a painting from the “Forests” series, for example “What is brewing,” the tension between the background and the form is marked not as contrary but as very different. While with this Forest, the fluid multiplicity of tension plays in the arrangement of color touches creates a more emergent than directive perspective (forests), the Parisienne synthesizes and amplifies the tension under the unified direction of the point of view. The outline asserts itself, the authoritative form imposes itself, although here the background fights back.
