Modern Art + Design presents: Olle Baertling
Olle Baertling
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Bukowskis presents Olle Baertling at Modern Art + Design. Viewing the 12th to the 16th of May, Auction the 17th and 18th of May.
Like many other artists, Baertling encountered criticism in his time. For a long while in Sweden he was seen as “the constantly controversial banker who was trying to paint” despite the fact that, unlike many contemporary artists, his reputation extended far beyond the borders of his homeland during his lifetime.
The banker who became an artist
Baertling’s painting developed step by step from figurative to non-figurative from the 1940s onwards. When borders opened up after the Second World War Baertling, like many others, travelled to France-the stamping ground for new art.
”Baertling preferred artificial shades of colour which did not conjure up associations with nature and considered black to be a magical colour; light, happy and beautiful.”
Léger often drew inspiration from nature, taking butterflies, flowers and aquatic plans for his subjects.
Black – a magical colour
Baertling preferred artificial shades of colour which did not conjure up associations with nature and considered black to be a magical colour; light, happy and beautiful.
Art historian Gunnar Berefelt described the impact of the colours on each other as follows:
“The contrast at borders should probably be asserted as the most striking and active effect. In Bærtling’s art, when two colours gain a sufficiently long and distinct boundary, they seem to alternately encroach into the domain of the neighbouring colour. Just at the boundary line, both colours oscillate, flutter.”
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