Christel Haag

Der Pelikan und das Mädchen, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

2005

"Die Gedanken sind frei" (The thoughts are free) is a colorful, dynamic acrylic painting on canvas. Although it is rather minimalist and gestural painted picture, it exudes an enormo...

In some situations we have "mixed emotions". We are happy about something, but at the same time we are somehow afraid or a certain dislike of it. We feel the same way about some peop...

New Beginning - 2017 by Christel Haag Large vividly colorful abstract piece by award winning German artist Christel Haag. original painting acrylic on canvas - stretched ready to hang. Ships securely from London. About the artist : « A life without color is unthinkable. I dedicate myself to my late love, colorful abstract painting, with all the more passion...

This lyrical, colourful abstract painting is by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak- one in a series created in collaboration with an Italian artist, Angela Letizia Renzi, a lover of literature and linguistics. In this dynamic composition, expressive, gestural lines and swaths of colour—yellow, green, turquoise, white, melon and brown flow across the canvas. Tosczak is perhaps best known for his beautiful bronze figurative sculptures. This painting was inspired by a poem entitled ‘L’invitation au voyage” written by C. Baudelaire, a famous French poet. ‘Au pays qui te ressemble’ means ‘the country that resembles you’. “The collaboration, which has its beginnings in the picturesque setting of Lake Como, continues, more productive than ever, on an island in the heart of the Mediterranean animated by the tide, the motion of the waves, the active volcano Etna and tales of local mythology.” Tosczak and Renzi Richard Tosczak was born in Belgium. He studied philosophy and sculpture at the University of Alberta. At that time, Tosczak began working in steel and was influenced by a number of his professors who appreciated the work of a British abstract sculptor, Sir Anthony Caro considered one of the greatest sculptors of his generation. Further studies were pursued in France with another internationally acclaimed classic sculptor, Martine Vaugel...