Detailed description

Picture "Symmetrical landscape" (1984)

The picture is painted using the time-consuming resin oil glazing technique of the old masters. Transparent oil paint mixed with dissolved resin is glazed with a brush in many wafer-thin layers, creating shimmering, almost three-dimensional color spaces. The creation of such a painting takes up to a month. At first glance, it looks like an almost photorealistically painted mountain lake, as we know it from the Alps. On closer inspection, however, you realize that something is wrong here, that this landscape cannot exist like this: It is completely symmetrical! Every contour of the rocks and mountains on the left corresponds to the shape of the landscape on the right. So the picture holds a visual surprise for the viewer beyond the beauty of the mountain lake.

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