In my spare time, I've indulged in occasional painting activities for some twenty years. Self-taught, I sometimes felt the need to take a few brief drawing and painting courses to improve the quality of my canvases and satisfy my need to learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although I was enjoying this hobby, there were several occasions when I felt I had reached my limits, which the experience I'd gained and the courses I'd taken couldn't overcome. I had the feeling of \"reaching a ceiling\", whereas my wish was to go beyond an amateur pictorial activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having picked up my brushes again after a fifteen-year hiatus, one day I crossed the threshold of the L'Artquarium workshop. Since then, not a week has gone by that I haven't discovered techniques or methods designed to enable me to make tangible progress, particularly in the art of composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I learn the language of painting and its expressive tools, such as shapes, rhythms and equivalences. I discover and learn to practice the sometimes complex rules of composition and geometric structure, essential prerequisites for the creation of any image, figurative or abstract. I learn to observe and analyze works and masterpieces by ancient and contemporary artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I discover and learn to practice the complex theory of colors: contrasts, their tonality, their values, their weight, their temperature, the material itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I'm learning not to give in to impatience. Without losing sight of the need to create, I force myself to subordinate the placing of an image on a support to in-depth reflection on several preliminary stages. In this way, I discover that painting is, in a way, a way of praising slowness, but an organized slowness. And when I'm not in class, I practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Artquarium gives me what I've been looking for for a long time: the rigorous and demanding learning of techniques, tools and methods, designed to help me progress in the difficult art of composition, not without effort, but for my greatest pleasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I'm 64 and learning to be a painter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gilbert K\u00fcnzi<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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