Karl Von Laufen - Clown

Since the 19th century, when painting began to explore various aspects of everyday life, the circus world has been a theme explored by various artists. With the development of Symbolist and Expressionist movements between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the figure of the acrobat, circus artist, or mask began to gain popularity, as they played a key role in the development of complex iconographies, with hidden and mysterious meanings. Examples include the figures of artists and harlequins.
Immortalized by Picasso in his "blue" and "rose" periods. During the 1970s and 1980s, it became a true genre practiced by many painters, who focused their interest primarily on the figure of the clown.

As we can see from an analysis of this painting, painter Karl Von Laufen is an artist who begins with tangible reality and then transforms the subject in an expressionistic manner. Indeed, the depiction of this clown has a strong realistic connotation, free of idealization, charged with sincerity and even truth. However, the subject undergoes some anti-naturalistic distortions to become more expressive: thus, the physiognomic features become more generalized, shifting the figure from the plane of reality to that of the symbol. The meanings assumed by the subject broaden and become broader. Von Laufen's pictorial approach, which features a highly textured color and an immersion in white, also contributes to this expressive characterization.

Artist Karl Von Laufen is engaged in an interesting stylistic exploration. He begins with tangible reality but distorts it in an expressionistic manner. All of this is elaborated according to this artist's highly original vision, which includes the use of textured painting.

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