A valley winds between meadows and fields, interspersed with steep slopes densely wooded with beech and oak trees. Along much of the river's course, romantic views open up into a landscape that remains largely untouched.
The painter Klaus Soppe has been exploring the interplay of complementary colors for several years.
In Soppe's first series, "Back Nudes," the background, rasterized with complementary colors, creates an intangible color field within the partially realistic paintings. An atmospheric space emerges in the viewer's eye, allowing the realistically painted portion of the image to stand out spatially.
In Soppe's second series, "Variations of Paul's Apples," he takes up Paul Cézanne's apple still life series and translates some of Cézanne's motifs into his own complementary painting style. The result is a series of paintings with a bold, graphic style. Through the deliberate use of complementary colors, the motifs appear three-dimensional upon closer inspection. Three-dimensional vision arises in the viewer's mind through perception with both eyes. In Soppe's paintings, a three-dimensional effect is created exclusively through the use of complementary grids. This allows the paintings to be perceived three-dimensionally, even when viewed with only one eye. Neo-Impressionists such as Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Théo von Rysselberghe, and Anna Boch already employed a color grid in their painting. Also known as Pointillism, they developed luminous color fields with an atmospheric effect through finely gridded and dotted pure colors. Soppe further develops this technique through the deliberate use of complementary colors and coarse grids, thus making his paintings glow in almost garish colors, reminiscent of Pop Art. Soppe, with self-irony, gives his painting the term “Pop Neo-Impressionism”.
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ConditionExcellentColorsGrey, Green, Taupe, Multi Color, PinkMaterialWoodNumber of items1OrientationLandscapeArt sizeSmallHeight30 cmWidth45 cm