This is my most recent painting about the human fight against the recent pandemic. The frequent trial to control and reduce the spread of this malignant disease is similar to the unfair dance of the most powerful tiger with a fragile dancing nurse. As we all know, cats (big and small) play with their victimsContinue reading “Corona’s Dance with Tiger, 2020, Oil on Canvas, 55 x 46 cm”
Author Archives: Martin Kerntke
Crisis? What Crisis? 2020, Oil on Canvas, 150 x 125 cm
This artwork is painted in an expressive style that is mixed with quoted patches related to informal art and also parts with quite realistic figures. It highlights, through the use of complementary colors, the ignorance of climatic crises, which is still an actual problem on our highly endangered planet. It is symbolized by a wildfire andContinue reading “Crisis? What Crisis? 2020, Oil on Canvas, 150 x 125 cm”
Beached Refugees, 2014, Oil on Canvas, 55 x 80 cm
We all know the pictures of beached whales around the globe, and sometimes crowds of people help them find their way back in the ocean. It makes sense to push them back to the waters, but the story in the painting is a different one: Here, however, this painting shows the beached bodies of shipwreckedContinue reading “Beached Refugees, 2014, Oil on Canvas, 55 x 80 cm”
Artifically Fragmented Nature, 2015, Oil on Canvas, 90 x 190 cm
The theme of this work is the loss of nature. Nature is reduced to isolated islands within a man-made artificial environment. During the painting process, the nearly completed landscape painting of jungle-like floral structures was overprinted with magenta. Doing so, I destroyed the original work. This color reflects an artificial environment and contrasts well withContinue reading “Artifically Fragmented Nature, 2015, Oil on Canvas, 90 x 190 cm”
Nature on the Edge, 2015, Oil on Canvas, 130 x 100 x 6,5 cm
In this painting, floral structures symbolizing the nature are restricted to the margins of the canvas, whereas the center appears in an artificially appearing magenta color. The painting also covers the four faces of the stretcher frame. These 3-D appearances open various perspectives to the viewers. But it’s obvious that the cancer-like destruction of ourContinue reading “Nature on the Edge, 2015, Oil on Canvas, 130 x 100 x 6,5 cm”