Vera Herzogenrath‘s Art of Painting
Dr. Gabriele Uelsberg
Vera Herzogenrath is an artist in the classical sense. Canvas or paper, acrylic or oil paint and gouache are the media of her artistic compositions. Her theme is the world as the artist perceives it, which she invents anew in her various works.
In her chosen art medium, Vera Herzogenrath consistently develops new variations of landscapes, sensuous experiences and everyday objects. Everything that she experiences in her everyday life can become the subject of a painting, although the observer initially encounters her works as abstract. It is not the artist‘s intent to create an image of reality that could be recognized by the observer: rather, with the artistic means of colour and plane, she tries to create an atmosphere that corresponds to the experience of landscape, everyday life or three-dimensional space. In the flow of her painting Vera Herzogenrath constantly develops new colour tones and shapes which, on canvas or paper, set themselves free from the objective world in such a way that the experience of colour and space in her paintings is ultimately comprehensible for the observer - he/she shares the experience of the artist in the end. Vera Herzogenrath creates new compositions using colour tones in a special way, by subtly diversifying the colour values. In so doing, she continues to develop new and dynamic conceptual exchanges. Light meets dark, warm meets cool and always a colour composition arises which, in the first instance, creates not an impression of harmony but first and foremost a dialogue of colours.
Vera Herzogenrath is an abstract artist who needs real world experiences in order to develop her creative compositions. The flow of her art is expressive and gestural, even though the artist always focuses on reality in order to give maximum authenticity to her artistic visual worlds with reference to her personal perception.