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"white series II", 2009, oil/boxed canvas, 50 x 70 cm (sold) by Chris(tian) v. Grumbkow

"white series II", 2009, oil/boxed canvas, 50 x 70 cm (sold)

a series of white paintings, after my "La Palma sunset series" and the huge "Appassionata project"....I needed a break after the powerful color work and when I started again, I only could do that with almost white paintings....
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Wow!I'm so happy to commet first on it!
Great work,as always!
Love it much!
7 months ago
Hi Iby, thanks for your nice words!
7 months
Very nice Chris! It has a cold but powerful feeling to me.
Very well done!
7 months
I can see what you mean, but it is not meant to be so much snow or ice, it's more wind, a bit of light and movement on a road in a city.....that's what I sense...
7 months
I see what you are saying.
7 months
Freely architectural. Beautiful abstraction.
7 months
yes, the idea was kind of staying in horizontal and upright forms, which always leads into architectural images....Thanks for your comment Geoffrey:)
7 months
very impressed,
7 months
I must say I like your Elvis portrait and : Thanks!
7 months
How i understand you Christian! GREAT work!! :-))))
7 months
dear Luna...you are a fathful friend...I thank you!
7 months
In white setting now !!! I love the whole work . It gives me an impression of wet windows, from a rain.A strong wind blowing makes the rain scrolling away rapidly. I love the wet look of this work and the colours very much.
7 months
Hi Jolign, yes in the white setting lays some pieceful, calming effect for me and out of these subtle tones I could develop my recent winter landscapes like "Morning Dew"...The window subject, you are describing so, is one of my old and favorite themes....Thank you!
7 months
Chris,i am raptured of your break and this one! It is very difficult to do white works. This one is masterpiece... Beautiful colours, exact accent...Congratulate!
7 months
Dear Dergun, such a great comment from the master of abstract, that is really something I appreciate:) Thank youvery much!
7 months
Great reflection of white chris
7 months
Dear William, thanks....my painting occurs as the opposite of your "golden fire":)
7 months
Hello Chris, great composition and you well done it, because white is not a white and your exercise of sense is wonderful! "5"
7 months
Guntis, I like your deep and honest compliments...Thank you very much!
7 months
Regards
Giselle
7 months
Hi Giselle, thanks very much and I just have looked at your sublime portraits...great work!
7 months
I know what you mean...sometimes one needs a break from vivid colour...excellent piece
7 months
exactly Catherine, sometimes we need a break from the usual stuff! Thank you or visiting my site....
7 months
Great movement and reflections and super colour combination as always 10 out of 10,david
7 months
Hi dear friend, I am glad you like also my stuff in white....:)
7 months
I like any kind of your colours,do you mind if I try one,david
7 months
I think that white colour is the colour of pureness but not of emptiness... This looks like piece of paper with some words have been written on it... Do you want to write on this "paper" again or to erase old words and to begin to write something new?
7 months
that is a great and sensitive descripton my dear Katerina...."sheet of paper and some writings on it"......love this idea! I am not sure, I found out, when I painted this, that it felt very good to start with the all over white surface and then adding only bits of black, blue and yellow and try to work in several thin layers...well, and I never look back, I will go on and have after the white series many new stuff in my studio waiting for a last finishing touch.....also stronger colors like green/red colorfield paintings and many more Winter (soul) scapes....Thank you so much!
7 months
I am very glad to read these words "I will go on"...:)
7 months
Hi Chris. I don't know how you do it. It seem so easy when I look at it, and yet I'm sure I cann't do it after. You make me want to go icescating with this one. Very beautiful. Pia
7 months
I thank you! It is not that easy Pia, it only looks like that.....many layers...and the right mood...and resisting all the possibilties of "making a nice picture"....and according icecating, just go ahaed:) lol!!
7 months
I LOVE your work! (by now, you know it!)This is cool. :-)))
7 months
Thank you for your "cool" reaction on my "white series II" Elizabeth!
7 months
;-))) Looking forward to the rest!
7 months
Chris I love it! It is refreshing and alive I like your explanation to TAS. I see it! As always the layered effect is so appealing. So much to see in white with very little colour. It does what it should, gets your attention, holds it and inspires.
7 months
You are an experienced perceiver of art and painting Steve, so I am glad you appreciate what I tried. Thank you for your enthousiasm:)
7 months
Great piece of art !!! I am loving the white color as i usually use very strong colors in my work and i am a bit tired of them . you do such beautiful and inspiring work Chris , thanks for sharing them with us ! 5***** from me !
7 months
Thank you Blerta!....well, each time I stay away from the bold and strong colors for a while and choose the white, or black and white "reduction", something new arises out of this reduced palette....so I only can tell you to try that for yourself, it's worth "renewing the self perception" from time to time!
7 months
Thank you Chris , i think i'll try that . :)
7 months
Outstanding, jawdropping and whitetastic.
7 months
Those expressions I have to look up in the dictionaire..."jawdropping and whitetastic"...but anyway, I guess they can't be too bad:) Thank you Dwyer!
7 months
I love this painting!I can't say more words about it because my english are really bad,but aniway,i really love this one dear Chris!The hole composition,the colors,the message that forward this painting,in one and last word "Excellent"!
7 months
Hi Roger, thank you for your compliments....:) I am glad you can appreciate my "white" painting.
7 months
superschön - speziell der spiegelungseffekt ... amazingly beautiful - especially the mirror effect 5* love it !
7 months
Hi Claudia, thank you very much.....(are you a Claudia from Germany, living and painting in the USA, or how comes that you write in perfect German?)
7 months
Wonderful painting portraying the oil spill from the Boxes,Chris! Lovely whites effect in boxes, and reflections. Yes, we do need to change our colour scheme after a Colourful painting,! Infact sometimes a week or two to do some observing, walks, and Abstract expression, or Still-Life expression. 5***** Regards Angela
7 months
Hi Angela, your comment is very much appreciated...I agree.
7 months
Nice clean effect.
I like the simplicity of this work
7 months
Hello Eva, nice hearing from you. Thanks!
7 months
there is such a sense of movement in this. Very elegant,
and quite gorgeous. Like an ice palace.
7 months
Hello Nadine, I like your comment. Thanks for the kind and sensitive description...:)
7 months
Beautiful series, love the icy feel and texture in the piece, great work Chris. 5*****
7 months
Thanks Priscilla. Nice meeting you also in the "ice time":)))
7 months
So appropriate for the times we are in... Swept away by time
7 months
great thought Sarah: "So appropriate for the times we are in... Swept away by time" I love such sensitive descriptions and feel honored.Thank you so much!
7 months
I do love your whites also :-) So clear energy.
7 months
Thank you dear Beata! "clear energy" sounds so good!
7 months
Water, movement, reflection, bright morning light - these are the things that I can feel in this work. Very nice Chris!
7 months
Hi, what you feel is just right Matt.......thanks!
7 months
Chris~ This has excellent movement and I can feel a breeze of fresh air and the water capturing small waves... as the ship sails away Yes that is what I see and it has a comfort and peaceful feel to this.. Love the white! :)
7 months
Hello Chrisann, thanks for your nice and warm words my dear friend. I hope all is well?
7 months
This is a real beauty!! Amazing!!I love your use of color. Keep up the great work Chris!
Best regard!:-)))
7 months
I do my best to impress you, dear Zivka:))))))Thanks a lot!
7 months
I feel a gentle movement of spirit,,free, clean sailing, no fears, serene,,peaceful flow of thought. Beautiful! 5***** Sincerely, Doris
7 months
love such descriptions Doris, where words are used in a poetic way....Thank you!
7 months
I know how you feel, Chris, sometimes we need to detox from the colours just to renew the inner balance! This is very calm and 'healing' Great! Regards Rob
7 months
Hi Rob, thanks for your sensitive and nice words.
7 months
excellent!
7 months
Thank you so much and you know that I do like your story you told me.....:)
7 months
Hi Chris. To me this looks like ice, Like a wall of ice melting into a large puddle. Like Winter melting away.. And the tiny flecks of colour have the promise of Spring and new life. :))) 5***** Kerry
7 months
OK Kerry, everybody is allowed to see what she/he likes.....that is the nice and democratic thing with abstract art....but you are close to my own intentions....Thank you for taking your time to write and the rose!!
7 months
Maybe it is wishful thinking because it is so hot here.. :))
7 months
Hi Chris, I like the wind effect and the blur over the lines accentuating movement over static objects. The visual effect is quite stunning. xxx Paula
7 months
Great Paula....you describe what I always try to find: movement! Thanks so much!
7 months
It,s great Chris, very soothing and smooth good job.
7 months
Thank you so much William...I also looked and voted for your light tower painting...
7 months
oh chris i love your whites!!
7 months
thank youuuu carol!
7 months
Weird...I had a dream last nite about doing a piece that this is similar to. I love the strong simplicity.
7 months
Thank you DH Lewis. I hope your dreams came true:) Would be nice for a change, though I like your figurative work very much...
7 months
An enchanting white vision Chris...you always seem to know when to stop!!!xx
7 months
Dear Alison....thanks for writing....well, at least I try to stop before adding too much....according to the white series, this (stopping) it's not really a dangerous thing:)
7 months
I like very much your white serie...This color is forbidden for me, so i respect who use it and you are a great "user".
This is almost minimal, i love it.
7 months
he he Roberto! "Forbidden"???.....you should try.....it's so clearing and cleansing the overflowing emotions and also from this kind of a "zero point" I can start again into the world of color again and reach new areas on my color trip.....:) THANK YOU!
7 months
:)) Usually i use blu as "zero point"...never "below" the blu. I guess i have painted not more that 4 works with white and with not excellent results. :))
7 months
Chris 100% 5***** painting and so fresh to see first thing in the morning
regards Ricky
7 months
.....nice to imagine you, looking into a fresh painting rather then into the mirror while shaving:))))lol...Thank you Ricky
7 months
There is a cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words yet to hear music as you sit before your art work is splendid. To take a minimalist feeling and breath an emotion into it is what I have come to love about your work. It is as if you have tapped into the very core of an artist soul, taken a style from within and are able to apply it to so many different venues. Having a mental deficiency that forces me to look for the interplay between shapes and give meaning to them outside of the norm, I see a Golden Section in the center of this work. The square in the center adds such a static peaceful element on top of the rectangle, a throw back to Rothko. The stretching effect of the overall composition is sublime and dynamic at the same time. Your ability to create movement and the tension of the horizontal against the vertical line is breathtaking. I truly admire the layers of color against the surface as it also is a stanza in the lyric against the vibrant music. Nice work Chris and a wonderful departure from your previous work.
7 months
what a through and through great, even powerful statement Steven...for me it's so wonderful to read all those precious thoughts and see - while reading the words - the same painting from a different point of view.....I mean, when I paint I just paint instinctively and stop, look and act again and again (layering) and then it's done....so loading up a new work on PIL is so important, because so we are able (thanks to Peter's great PIL idea) to step for a short moment out of our routine (always one sided) into another vision of our own art...wow. Thanks Steven!
7 months
Excellent work, Man, a bit of touch of master Agron! Love it!
Kind regards, M.
6 months
Thank you, Michael, but I must say, I can't see this "touch of Agron" ! He paints very different...by the way: I especially loaded my white paintings up for him..he had asked me to show them and now he is gone.....:)
6 months
Ok man, I will take good look at Agron,s partfolio agein, and I will be back with my feed back on that.....
6 months
as I said, Agron has left PIL!
6 months
Beauty and intrigue......
6 months
Master!After the powerful color work,great series!
6 months
Thanks for your reaction Sergo. I like your stuff too and would like to see some more!
6 months
I love it! It is nice to return to the calm world of white, like a detox or like a restore to factory settings. All the best Christian, your work always interests me.
6 months
Thank you Robin, your sensitive thoughts and comments are interesting me! :)
6 months
I don't understand too much about abstract painting, but I do know that this painting pleases my eyes, very much so! It is very soothing, with the white, touch of beautiful blue and a dash of yellow! Love the reflections too! 5*****+
6 months
Hi Jenny, it's not so much the question of understanding much about abstraction, it's the question of perception and - when I give an abstract painting a bit of time, what it does to me, what kind of reactions are responding from my inner voice or my body. Not so much the judging brain is asked to react.....!!so what you describe is just authentic and wonderful. I thank you very much!
6 months
beautifully done chris. i love the way it shines! 5* -joyce
6 months
Hi Joyce...I am glad you can appreciate my work. Thanks so much!
6 months
Hello my friend.
When looking at your work that we feel we are in a big city with very tall building and we are in the presence of a wind storm.
Great work
Regards,Luis
6 months
Luis, it's up to you what you see in my abstract, but I see similar things afterward!:) Thanks so much my friend!
6 months
So very goegeous,Chris!
6 months
Thank you so much Adhishray...it must be kind of opposite art from your colorful point of view, right?
6 months
Yes but I find Pure white paintings very beautiful!
6 months
Wow! Love your painting...very abstract and just what I love, but I still tend do detail wnen I really do not want too! Thanks Christian for inviting me to join your group..love to! Fiona
6 months
Hi Fiona I appreciate your nice words and I am glad you like my stuff!
6 months
F a n t a s t i c !! :D
6 months
Thanks!
6 months
Beautifully done, Chris! Great use of colors, very well composed!
6 months
Thank you for your precious support Varvara!
6 months
Splendid abstract work !!!5*****
6 months
Nice comment, Leonard. Thanks:)
6 months
Hello Christian,
I like the atmosphere of peace and harmony that you transmit with your colours. It gives me want to do some works in whites too.
Irene
6 months
OK Irene, I only can recommend doing that...Have fun and thanks!
6 months
Very good! *****!
I see one ski:)
6 months
ah, Nata welcome, you seem to be new here on PIL:))))Thanks you!
6 months
Beautiful beautiful white!! I totally love your style Chris!! The movement is just so!! Beautiful and freeing! Almost as if a breeze blows through your soul clearing and renewing! I have be struggling with a few white works actually, still not comfortable to present! Thankyou for the inspiration my friend. 5***** : )
6 months
Hello dear Dawn, you are welcome and I will show more of this stuff......thanks for coming along!
6 months
Love the play of light on this one - the texture and energy 5 stars
6 months
Thank you Christopher...I appreciate your compliments!
6 months
love this style
6 months
Thanks Nigel.....I am glad you like it!
6 months
Hi Chris - Oh you are so sweet to take time to explain all that ... so useful. Yes, I see what you mean and, I have to say that I have a few books of seascapes that really look like snowscapes! I will look at some of Turner's work to get some further understanding, but I see how I could free up certain areas of the wave that, at the moment, all magically falls and rolls at precisely the same milli second. And creates that frozen moment look! It is sort of obvious but I think a lot make the same mistake. Cheers from Mike - and will now go vack to look at your lovely painting.
6 months
you are so sweet too, Michael....I feel always a bit guilty when I try to "teach" fellow PIL friends...But I also would be open for this kind of constructive critics....have a great study on this wonderful subject water....and greetings to William Turner:)
6 months
Hi Chris Again, I love white paintings. I have one of white eggs - and so full of colour. Your abstract is beautiful and full of textures and detail. 5 ***** from Mike
6 months
:) Thanks Michael!
6 months
Hi Chris.. im liking this new colour and i like the way the strokes work i have had loads of fun getting to know my paint in this way. I t does remind me of someone elses work too, thats just the colour tho!
6 months
Hello Debbie, didn't see you here at PIL since a while....I hope everything is fine? Thanks for coming along and having a look!
6 months
Good composition...
Beautiful painting!
6 months
Thank you Gus (your name sounds Dutch ?). I appreciate your comment.
6 months
Okay Chris, I can't judge abstracts beyond colors and light. Here I can see a sail boat friezed on ice. Your ability to blend the colors in layers and still transfer to us the movement your want is something that I admire. Nice piece my friend!
Kostas
6 months
Hi Kostas, I thank you for the time you took to look at my work...I find your definition of what you have seen in my semi abstract painting totally OK!
6 months
Hi Chris. Very nice indeed. I always take a lot of pleasure viewing your work.

Best regards...Brian
6 months
Hello dear friend, I also like to look at your well executed and inspired (and inspiring) works. So I thank you for your comments..very much appreciated:)
6 months
Hello Chris, I really like this painting. I love the whiteness and the touch of colours, and I love the way my eyes are sliding across the painting only to hold on (sort of like with my finger nails) at a colour and then go moving on again across the painting, and yet with the movement there is a stillness in the centre. Wow that is quite something. Thank you, this is a really good abstract and has taught me a great deal.
6 months
Dear Maureen, it's so great to read your comment, better your thoughtful description...I feel very much understood with what you came up according the composition of "white series II"...Thank you, I am glad I discovered your work!
6 months
very nice piece love the whites
6 months
yes, the white has something very special...I have currently about 10 white paintings and 7 "lighter paintings" in my studio and it's so refreshing and clearing to be surrounded by them (compared with f.i. my usual red series).....Thanks Justin
6 months
i love it! i always try to keep it clean and minimal ..nut...as you can see!
beautiful!
6 months
Thank you very much Joe....well, I do know that problem very well.....the tendency to put too much on a canvas is the danger par excellence in art....."less is more" and since I am following this rule, I am quite happy and sometimes (!) "successful" :)))...
6 months
I have a hard time sticking to what i preach> "ONE CANVAS, ONE STORY"...I usually write a novel! LOL
6 months
I can feel the "cooolddd" you've been looking out of your window haha...still, a very nice and appealing design Chris and as you say, a departure from intense color. So, what's in store for us all this year? The motivation from PIL friends over the last two years has been very good and we're seeing some great and innovative paintings, i hope that continues and it's nice to have the interaction.
6 months
Hi Graeme..."looking out of my window", not bad my friend!:))) Thank you for writing! Isn't it a wonderful adventure to be in such a situation: we can choose what we want to do (freedom of mind) and working from our own sources....and sometimes there are clients which enjoy or even like our stuff and are able to pay for what we are doing....and, yes, the PIL community, the exchange and the encouragement are helpful,good and very inspiring....Great life!
6 months
This has been here long enough now... What are you on vacation, taking a break or just relaxing too much? It would seem a great master as you could just sit before a canvas and will the palette to come alive and the brushes to get up and dance before your eyes on the surface of the canvas... (Hey now that is a great idea – you know like a Disney movie)…

You know I just love this Chris - BRAVO. Now don't get mad I know one comment per person per painting - wish I could vote again - LOL...!!!
6 months
Hi dear acrobat on the PIL-wire, I just can't decide
which one I should load up...give me a few more hours..:)
6 months
Powerful abstract!5*
6 months
Hi Davina, thanks a lot!
6 months
wow...what kind I say that haven't said...speechless. 5*****
6 months
:)you make me smile Oldivad! Thanks, your comment is much appreciated....:)
6 months
Beautiful movement of colours and nice lighting too.
6 months
Thank you Adnan.....I like your work too!
6 months
Hello Chris , i love your white with touches of colour ..beautiful :))
6 months
Hi Trudi, thanks for your nice comment on my white work....how is your painting going?
6 months
so well done, difficult to paint so bright without it´s boring, but this one is full off movement and with strong lines *5*
6 months
Thanks Louise, you are right....it's hard to keep the white and the tension in the right relationship....it's even harder to look at such a painting, compared with figurative or stronger color work...nevertheless I need this work right now....
6 months
speachless!1000000*
6 months
Thank you Constantin!I am glad you like it...:)
6 months
Bright, bleak, reflective...I love this new approach of your "white series"....amazing visual experience. Regards. Denis.
6 months
Hi Denis, thanks for having a look.....what happened to your surreal visions? LOL (or a comission work ?)
6 months
So subtle... Fantastic work!
6 months
Thank you Irena, I like your work too!
6 months
Hi Chris, I'm always pleased to get your comments. I have decided I must be a bit of a broody painter because I do enjoy the play of darks and then the sparkles of colour. But, as you say, you have to have some variety. Hug from mike
6 months
Thank you Michael, normally I also do love the play of the dark with some sparkels of colors, but at this moment I seem to need a more an apollonian, rather then the dionysien stile...:)Have a great day!
6 months
These people who don't use much colour!!! ;0)lol Only kidding, this is excellent Chris, powerful work as always 5* cheers, Paul
6 months
Thanks Paul...welcome in the club :)I hope you are OK?
6 months
браво интелигетно направена работа хареса ми
6 months
I guess you are saying that you "hate my stuff and wish I would disappear from PIL" ???? LOL !!! Thank you...maybe someone can translate this for me? Would be great!
6 months
Great piece....i see a blurry blue smurf walking along a frozen river banking, with his hat on :)
4 months
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for Chris(tian) v. Grumbkow
Chris(tian) v. Grumbkow...living in Wuppertal/NRW as professional artist.
Exhibiting since 1970

Toured and recorded (7LPs/CDs)from 1970-1977 with the progressive German Rockband HOELDERLIN.

Christian loves to paint backstage paintings, creates CD and book covers...

Christians works are to be seen in many art collections and sold to private collectors.

There are 7 catalogues available with his work since 1990.

Currently to be seen:
"APPASSIONATA", a one man show, at Epikur Galleries, Wuppertal, from May 28th until July 17th, 2010 - with a new catalogue, which you can download here:
www.galerie-epikur.de Wuppertal/NRW/Germany

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