Michael Ladenthin, born in 1963, is a German artist who grew up and lives and works in the Ruhr region.
His works are characterised by an expressionist style that is partly based on realistic elements and partly on abstract processes. Ladenthin experiments with the primary colours yellow, cyan and magenta in combination with white and black, creating random structures that can depict stories, scenes, dreams or even psychotic states. Some parts of his pictures remain unprocessed to give the viewer space to discover their own pictorial components in the abstract structures and to add individual scenes.
The painting "When the octopus reveals the goals of your life and you are not even surprised despite the wonderful soap bubbles" has an original size of 60 x 60 cm and is a mixed media (oil on acrylic) with 24-carat gold foil. It shows two people involved in a fight, illustrated by an octopus that reveals the goals of their lives. Despite the marvellous soap bubbles, there is no surprise. Like Ladenthin's other works, the picture contains watercolour features and large, integrated areas of colour.
The images belong primarily to the cycle CMY, which, based on the technique of modern printing technology, consists essentially of the colors cyan, magenta and yellow. The colors are used in the priming for image composition and later elaborated in the details.
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