Wols: The blue Phantom

Interested in Abstract art/modern art after the visit of the art gallery in Hk!
There are now abstract paintings in my room. I reli feel gr8 when i c them everyday.

Try to learn to appreciate abstract paintings. For some ppl, they are not art at all, i still need some time to figure out this question.

Wols-aka Alfred Otto Wolfgang was a German painter and he was famous for his post war movement in painting often referred to as “gestural abstraction”

In this painting, i can imagine a machine or creature lives deep down in the sea. In fact, the creature is quite interesting, hving some sparkling and shining, octopus like light bulbs. They are moving in different directions and attempt to extend the territory and prove their existence to the deep and big world (sea). The creature also has a tail and some other generations.
It's interesting to notice that the creatures are surrounded by a coloured edge. I love the mix of different colour. With the edge, it confirms the existence of the creatures and give ppl a sense of security and peace. Like if sth bad dev from the dark creature, the colour would absorb and turn it into good.

I also like the different degree of the colour blue and textures in the painting. It's clear to see both horizontal and vertical lines in the blue sea. For me, the blue sea remains a mystery. It comforts and disturbs you at the same time.

Some quotes or gd pts of an article talking abt Wols:

His paintings are a search for a way of visualizing the inhuman (following the end of World War II)

His photographs are neither optimistic nor pessimistic as these are ethical categories whereas the subject matter of his photography is the object as it exists beyond moral judgment.

For a photographer such as Wols the world is not to be made more knowable through the lens of the camera – but more mysterious and inexplicable. His photographs stand as enigmatic evidence of a (somewhat surreal) world composed of fragments.

It is precisely in these images that Wols reveals how much he understands about the power of the object and the ultimate unknowability of the human – even in a self portrait. For Wols, no matter how close we get with the camera, the mask each of us wear in public remains at least somewhat intact.

Hope u enjoy studying the painting:)