{"product_id":"fraktur","title":"Fraktur","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"952\" data-end=\"1143\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"952\" data-end=\"963\"\u003eFraktur\u003c\/strong\u003e is based on a photograph taken in Berlin's Mitte district, where fragments of the city's architecture, graffiti and everyday life coexist in a constantly changing urban landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1145\" data-end=\"1569\"\u003eThe painting is deliberately pared back. A largely unbroken field of deep blue-black surrounds a small, intensely illuminated architectural space, allowing the white walls, vivid graffiti and the silhouette of a solitary figure to emerge almost as fragments from the darkness. The bicycles and other incidental details reinforce the sense of an ordinary Berlin street rather than a deliberately picturesque view of the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1571\" data-end=\"1944\"\u003eThe title \u003cem data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1590\"\u003eFraktur\u003c\/em\u003e refers to the traditional German blackletter typeface, historically associated with German culture and identity. Here it is used more obliquely: the graffiti that covers so many Berlin buildings can be understood as a kind of contemporary script, replacing the formal visual language of the past with something spontaneous, personal and often transient.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1946\" data-end=\"2222\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eAs with much of my work, the painting is less concerned with recording a particular place than with what happens when \u003cstrong data-start=\"2064\" data-end=\"2147\"\u003elight, architecture, colour and absence are reduced to their essential elements\u003c\/strong\u003e. The city is present, but much of it has deliberately been left unpainted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nigel Bailey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54153213509743,"sku":null,"price":2200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/2078\/9615\/files\/69164a62e1b8ea140711df10_fraktur_1787908377344.jpg?v=1787908687","url":"https:\/\/www.theonlineartgallery.com.au\/products\/fraktur","provider":"The Online Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}