Statistical Yearbook of Norway 2011:
Cover:
Gunnar S. Gundersen: Ballspill (Ball game), 1973
© Gunnar S. Gundersen / BONO 2011
Photo: © O. Væring eftf. AS
Gunnar S. Gundersen (1921-1983) was one of the most prominent figures in non-figurative art in Norway in the 20th century. He used surface bound and constrained geometric shaped elements, as well as more spacial geometric shaped elements. In oil and acrylic, the colour surfaces were meticulously detailed and clear; a visual expression that was to emerge as being well suited for silkscreen printing. A hallmark of Gundersen’s visual expression was his detailed analysis of individual forms and colours, where the emphasis was on a rhythmic grouping of the elements. He said himself that his starting point was his first perception when he was going to paint a picture, normally a rhythmic fragment of something he had considered. Based on this fragment, he would detail an organically linked series of visual perceptions to form a living and harmonic unit. He painted simply and purely in a direct language that expressed a logical, clear relationship with art.
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