Karin Kneffel is a German born
artist and similar to Elizabeth Patterson, she creates photo realistic rainscape
oil paintings among other things. Her work is shown internationally in Europe
and the United States. Currently, she is a painting professor at the Munich
Academy of Arts.
Her artwork challenges her to
recreate shadows of tree branches, reflections of rain, and other relationships
between subjects and light. She started out painting simple spaces and moved on
to more complex artworks. Many of her paintings now show both interior and
exterior spaces as if the viewer was looking inside of a space (or vice versa).
Her talent to show off light and shadow create interesting patterns throughout
each piece. Kneffel’s work explores the duality of interior versus exterior,
transparent versus opaque, and solidity versus pattern. The paintings are
created at such a large scale that when you see it up close, the work almost
turns into an abstract piece with all the patterns. I admire the amount of
control and precision her paintings (specifically the raindrops) must have
taken. I love how they give a sense of two layers (one being an interior space
and the other being and exterior space).
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