Katharina Grosse

A Modern Artist from Berlin

            I went online and looked up a few websites and two words that come to mind are “WOW!’ and “Trippy”.  What is going on in her head?  The funny thing is that I like what she produces.  She uses an industrial paint sprayer and expresses herself as kind of a rebel towards “fine art”.  She paints on whatever she wants.  She paints on walls, floors, ceilings, beds, books and natural materials like rocks and dirt.  I really got a sense of emotion with her choice of colors.  Like her “Hello Little Butterfly…” it is bright and cheerful with yellows and purples and blues.  It was like a butterfly got its wings in some paint and was fluttering chaotically to try to get it off, meanwhile it was making beautiful marks all over the walls.  The colors in her work all run/bleed together and really give a sense of movement.  Her choice in colors seems to really evoke emotions.  Somehow she is getting her opinions expressed through the colors she uses.  You can tell if she is mad or if she finds beauty in something. Some of her works give me a feel of a flood of colors rushing into a room, like it is coming right at me and I better move and get out of the way or else I will be colored myself.  Obviously she has an effect on lots of viewers as I noticed she has exhibits all over the place and even at our Denver Art Museum.  Personally, I would love to see her work in person.  I have a feeling seeing pictures online doesn’t quite justify her work.  It may sound silly, but I find her to be a brave artist to be okay to paint all over things as she does.  It is crazy and impulsive to me.  As amateur artist I still feel confined in creating “fine art”.  She really goes outside of the box.   I don’t know that I would ever go her route, but she does give me a sense of freedom to do whatever inspires me.

This is Katharina all decked out creating her art.

This is absolutely breath taking.  This is
the room where it feels like the colors are
flooding/rushing into the room.