Browsing: Figurative Abstraction

Böcklin transforms an isolated island, cypress trees, still water, stone architecture, boat, and coffin into a Symbolist space where death, silence, memory, Void, and suspended time become inseparable.

A portrait of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff accompanies an overview of his Expressionist color, distorted figures, religious imagery, printmaking, linocut experiments, and artistic resistance.

Klee’s winged angel becomes, in Walter Benjamin’s interpretation, a figure of historical catastrophe, forced toward the future while gazing helplessly upon the ruins of the past.

A reclining fragmented figure, black ground, yellow crescent, red circle, and symbolic motifs create a dreamlike field of unconscious tension and inner transformation.

A vulnerable newborn figure encounters a black geometric structure filled with signs, transforming birth into entry into the symbolic order of the modern world.

A church, ceremonial crowd, dark arches, and luminous colour patches dissolve into a rhythmic surface approaching abstraction.