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Andrzej Fogtt – Brda, 2024
Andrzej Fogtt – Brda, 2024 is an oil painting on canvas measuring 100 × 150 cm. The work belongs to the field of contemporary abstract painting and offers an intense study of light, water, colour and painterly matter.
Description of the painting
Brda is based on an all-over compositional strategy, in which the entire surface of the canvas is treated with equal intensity. The absence of a clear central point and traditional linear perspective draws the viewer directly into a dense, shimmering painterly structure.
The composition is built from a complex network of small, rhythmic brushstrokes. Colour patches form a pulsating tissue that suggests the movement of water, reflections of light and the changing surface of a river. The motif of the Brda is transformed not into a realistic landscape, but into an autonomous experience of colour and rhythm.
Colour, light and water
The palette of the painting is broad and saturated. It is dominated by ochre-orange tones, greens, blues and turquoise, contrasted with accents of black, navy and violet. This rich chromatic arrangement creates the impression of optical vibration, characteristic of light reflected on the surface of water.
The painting does not depict the river in a descriptive way. Fogtt synthesises the landscape, reducing the specific motif to a structure based on mark, movement, light and matter. The Brda becomes not so much a place as an optical and painterly phenomenon.
Painterly matter and impasto
The painted surface is characterised by a rich, almost sculptural structure. The layering of pigment creates a surface that changes its intensity depending on the angle of light and the viewer’s distance from the canvas.
The dense texture of the painting means that paint is not merely a carrier of colour, but an autonomous material. In Brda, the physicality of pigment contributes to the impression of movement, shimmer and depth, allowing the work to function both as an abstract composition and as a painterly interpretation of nature.
Artistic context
Conceptually, the painting may be read in dialogue with the late work of Claude Monet, especially the Water Lilies cycle. The affinity lies in the abandonment of contour, classical horizon and stable viewpoint in favour of recording a changing optical impression.
As in Monet’s work, nature is transformed into a painterly ecosystem of light and colour. In Fogtt’s painting, however, this process acquires a more contemporary and expressive character: the impasto is denser, the contrasts stronger and the whole composition moves towards expressive abstraction.
Landscape and abstraction
Brda is a painting situated between landscape and abstraction. Its point of departure is a specific river motif, but the final result is not a description of a place; it is a record of painterly energy. Water, light and vegetation dissolve into the rhythm of colour patches.
As a result, the painting functions as a visual meditation on the changeability of nature. It translates landscape into the language of colour, texture and movement while preserving the intensity of direct experience.
Artwork details
Artist: Andrzej Fogtt
Title: Brda
Year: 2024
Category: painting
Art movement: abstraction
Technique: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100 × 150 cm
Purchasing the artwork
Brda is a strong proposition for collectors interested in contemporary abstract painting, landscape transformed through colour and works with strong texture and optical intensity. For availability, price or additional information about the painting, please contact us.
