Movement in art or art in motion in 18 minutes and 13.7 km

Movement in art or art in motion in 18 minutes and 13.7 km Andreas Petzold Often it is only a reflex that activates the camera's shutter release to capture the flowing movements through the window of the neg railcar with the route number RB65 from Niebüll to Dagebüll Mole. It is about movement in art or art in motion. Whether dramatic gestures or shimmering brushstrokes of the Neo-Expressionists, kinetic sculpture or performances: movement has always been and still is a central theme in art. As paradoxical as it may sound: overcoming the rigidity of the motif on canvas or marble with the means of illusion has been an essential goal of artistic activity. For it is precisely colour, light and composition that create liveliness and movement in pictures that are intended to stimulate our senses. The industrial revolution initiated even more movement into social existence and thus also into art. In 1863 Charles Baudelaire demanded that rapidly executed pictures should reflect the movement of modern life. It is precisely the spontaneously applied brushstrokes that characterize the popular era of Impressionism. William Turner's seascapes, for example, in which he almost provoked the dematerialization of the representational and made the light and color of sunlight, fire, water and movement the actual theme of his paintings in a completely new way. Or Edgar Degas, who gave his dancers rotating movement in painting style, or later Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who used rotating lines of movement around his dancing couple as a means of reinforcement. Until finally, even in the 60s and 70s of the 20th century, art itself starts to move and kinetic objects are created. Mirrors refract the light and change the perception of space and the mirror image through their multi-perspective orientation. In the performance the human body itself becomes the material: bodies measure the world, document the movement in space. In contemporary art, painting finally enters the space and becomes a moving sculpture that also involves the viewer with its movement. For it is about movement in art or art in motion. And this in the RB65 of neg, the Norddeutsche Eisenbahn Niebüll GmbH. And this movement usually takes a short 18 minutes between Niebüll and Dagebüll via Deezbüll, Maasbüll and Dagebüll Church to Dagebüll Mole, the ferry port, to get to Föhr and Amrum. For travellers who arrived quickly with the IC in the course carriage, or those who have travelled as far as Hamburg in the fast ICE, must feel transported back to another, more contemplative world. This starts with a smooth plop of closing the doors before the engine driver slowly sets his vehicle in motion. As he leaves the outskirts of Niebüll, the typical North German coastal landscape becomes visible, which shapes the image: "Here I could come to rest - this is my home! For me it is always exciting opportunities to make landscape in motion visible. Brush and canvas are taken over by the digital camera with its different settings. For the artistic process of Niebüll neg-Dagebüll I have 18 minutes and 13.7 km of picture surface and design stage at my disposal. The railway line runs for the most part through flat, agricultural marshland and follows partly alongside and next to the historic dyke lines of the former Wadden Sea area Dagebüller Bucht. Sheep are the few spectators of the scenes, which are sometimes replaced by a herd of deer if you are lucky. Between the Dagebüller harbour and pier station, the route leads through a dike passage that can be closed by flood gates, thus creating exciting views that justify the camera's release. Different positions of the sun, pouring rain or fog make the heart of the artist vibrate here. The viewing angle is always fixed, the camera is held directly or slightly to the side of the train window. The creative decision to press the shutter release is often a reflex, which only becomes a certainty in the studio; here art is in motion or motion in art. From light and shadow reflections on the railcar windows, independent pictorial worlds are created with the passing marching landscape forms, which offer the eye of the beholder a diverse optical playground. The pictorial language of forms is clearly influenced by the speed of the RB65 der neg and transferred to art in motion. It is part of the project " Mit der neg kunstvoll ans Meer", which will be part of the mobile gallery between Niebüll and Dagebüll from the end of August to mid September 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anM8zTINeUM https://www.kunsteins.de/mediathek/kunstvoll-ans-meer/ Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)