AlbertEnz Monograf final
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Albert Enz - Art poetics between travel and visions<br />
singly precise meanings. Delving too deeply into the history of color is virtually<br />
excessive in this context. This brief introduction should instead serve<br />
to understand how Albert Enz's chromatic material is fundamental within<br />
his works, as color becomes a vehicle for messages as well as a means to<br />
give life to form. What emerges from Albert Enz's works is a chromatic material<br />
that doesn't forsake brilliance; even the darkest and dullest color, such<br />
as gray, manages to be vivid. Albert uses color as if it possesses its own life,<br />
as if it were a principal part of his works, not merely a means to achieve the<br />
conceived and represented form. It seems that for Albert Enz, color reflects<br />
his thoughts and memories, a reflection of experiences that have left an<br />
energetic rainbow in his soul. The lessons of great Masters of art like Cezanne,<br />
Burri, or even Klee himself mentioned at the beginning of this text are<br />
perfectly embodied in Albert Enz, who with extreme individuality turns chromatic<br />
material into his distinctive mark. Albert Enz is the painter of color.<br />
Precisely due to the power of color, Albert manages to forgo the definition<br />
of line, geometry, and form. There is no need to create perfectly realistic<br />
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