LandEscape Art Review // Special Issue | Page 79

Klaus Grape

LandE scape

CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
create technical structures which is completly different to the freedom of an artistic work .
My personal and artistic view on landscapes has also been enormously influenced by the couple of years I have spent in Southern Africa and my intensive traveling through the african wilderness .
I always belived in the complete freedom of art thats why I create works that account for a freedom inherent in art .
The visual language you convey in your pieces seems to be the result of a constant evolution of your searching for new means to express the ideas you explore in your works : your inquiry into the expressive potential of colors combines together both figurative and abstract feature into a coherent balance . We we would suggest to our readers to visit http :// klaus-grape . de in order to get a synoptic view of your work : in the meanwhile , would you like to tell to our readers something about the evolution of your style ? In particular , would you shed light on your usual process and set up ?
When I start a painting I have a very clear vision of what I want to paint and what kind of philosophy I want to transport to people .
Lets say when I start with one of my Landscape paintings I know exactly how it should look . Is it a view of an arctic sea , or maybe a section of a lush warm green countyrside , a snow covered mountain range or a far away unknown planet .
But during the course of painting , in the best case , more and more intuition takes over and the outcome is quite different from what I intended when I started painting .