The picture shows a reclining girl nude. The girl is frontally facing the viewer. The viewer's gaze is captured by the slender beautiful face. The figure is embedded in a narrow format.
In the drawing, each line was drawn once with a powerful stroke on Chinese paper 120 x 46 cm without a preliminary drawing. Every delicate bend of the line had to succeed at the first go. This is a challenge especially with the face. This applies to the chin bow, the mouth, the eyes and the nose. With a few brushstrokes is body is emphasized with red acrylic paint
Already as a child and in his further life the portrayal of the human being inspired Gunter Langer. Translating emotions into lines fascinated him. He began with portraits and later discovered that the human body can also develop emotions and expressiveness. To find pictorial compositions Gunter Langer works intensively with.. Read more…