Three studies of Zwei Freundinnen II is a painting by Eckhard Besuden which was uploaded on April 19th, 2015.
Three studies of Zwei Freundinnen II
This is the second one of my Three studies of Zwei Freundinnen.In harvest 2014 I visited the Foundation Beyeler in Basel Switzerland to take a view... more
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Title
Three studies of Zwei Freundinnen II
Artist
Eckhard Besuden
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
This is the second one of my "Three studies of Zwei Freundinnen".In harvest 2014 I visited the Foundation Beyeler in Basel Switzerland to take a view on the "Betty" by Gerhard Richter. The original painting is only 102 x 72 cm a little bit too small I thought.
Viewing the original I found out a few interesting things. The background of the original, is not red like in the low quality Internet shots, its dark green, what increases the red of her jacket to the maximum. Richter painted Betty from light to dark. The modern oilcolour allows him this technique. The most complicated was to analyse his wipetechnique because it produces the typical Richter-Fuzzyness. I found out, that he let dry the colours about 6 hours, than uses a paintthinner saturated brush to dissolve the topmost level of the oilcolour. Voila! I decided to paint her but with more light and bigger than the original.
Also in 2014 I visited the reopening of the Mauritshuis in Den Haag (Netherland). The girl with the pearl earring fascinated me. The painting is only 45 x 40cm big but the painting is so outstanding, that I must look into it for over one hour.
Jan Vermeer painted it 1665 from dark to light because the old oil colours had not such a good colour coverage like todays colours. It looks like overlayed watercolour. I had to copy her using the modern oil colours, by painting it with more solvent containing colour, to get the same effect like Jan. I also wanted to paint her bigger an with much more light in her face, as if she looks into a large spotlight, because she should be the central figure in my "Zwei Freundinnen" (Two girlfriends). I made three studies of this painting, like the Three studies of Lucien Freud from Francis Bacon.
Why should I copy this well known two paintings? First of all because its antideterminstic. At first market artists never ever would copy an artwork. Thats why antideterministic artists should fake some well known artworks.
Second, only a few people can see them. But you cant declaire them, because language isnt able to disclose the things. Language presents these artworks at best, as a secret. While painting them you solve secrets.
Of course I wanted to learn the technique of this outstanding two artists.
But why three paintings, of the "Two girlfriends"? Nowadays the situation of the "normal" artists, clearly deteorated, compared with the about 1000 "first class artists" in the world. Thats because of the ubiquitous information systems. Also the normal or local collectors have the information to buy a first class painting. The result is a dichotomy of the artists scene. There are two kinds of artists, the excluded artists, and the included artists, which earn millions of dollars. And there is no friendship between them both. I wish parties could be friends, and because female artists are a new equal category in the 21. century, they could be "girlfriends". And I am between this both parties. - I am Nr. 3.
Three studies of Zwei Freundinnen II, 150 x 120 x 5cm oil on canvas 2015
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April 19th, 2015
