Acrylic by Bernd Reichert
Portrait de la Parisienne
Bernd Reichert
To use a quote by singer Philip Ochs: “In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty”. In our search for novelty in making artwork, we often lose touch with beauty and harmony. My paintings explore poses, constellations, movements of the female form. It’s a pursuit of truth and beauty. Still the enigma remains.
I grew up in a time and place when the naked female body was perceived as unfolding its original charm and thus radiating an unconstrained self-confidence. I want to show this feeling to a world which is greatly torn by inequalities, foremost of gender, and a new constraining puritanism.
My paintings should be perceived as incorporating contemporary ideas and concepts while searching for the beauty around us. Or, with the words of painter Philip Pearlstein, to work with the human body as a “territory for abstraction”.
The viewer shall appreciate the sheer physical presence of painting. No irony, no detachment, no artificial story.Acrylic on Canvas
30x30cm
Unframed