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Hans Degner Speaks About His Art October 2022 I have drawn and explored my creative side all my life. When I got divorced in 2009, my focus on my art intensified rapidly, and I started to expand my drawings to painting on canvas. I think experimenting with colors is exciting and have made several very large abstract paintings. I find exploring shapes and figures incredibly cool and have worked

extensively with these mixing them with fun personifications of imaginary people and animals. I have always loved working with the CoBrA style. It’s inspiring and colorful. I’m from Denmark where Asger Jorn is from and other known CoBrA artists such as Karel Appel, who’s a fantastic artist. But in the early 2000s the German artist Gerhard Richter practically broke the sound wall with his art. I was so inspired and started selling my abstract art. My abstract paintings combine the works of many artists whom I admire the creativity of, such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko from the United States and Gerhard Richter. But you cannot ignore the countless amazing artists throughout time, and I love reading about art and the artists. I have over a thousand books on art. I have been blessed to have had the opportunity to work as an artist and to have my art exhibited and sold in Berlin, Germany, in Geneva, Switzerland, in Paris, Cahors, and Orleans in France, and in London, England. I spent some time in Sweden painting, and all of these places serve to inspire me and are expressed in my work. I have worked and toyed with figures in my CoBrA paintings based on my life experiences, and today about half of my paintings are therefore CoBrA. I have developed my own CoBrA style and include in my art how life affects me from Denmark to the rest of the world. From time to time, I handwrite on my CoBrA paintings, text reflecting the world we live in, what happens in our world and communities. This is characteristic of CoBrA. I love my work. It’s my passion, my love, and my life and sharing this with my audience is important to me. I paint every day.

There is nothing I love more than painting, and nothing makes me happier than when people who appreciate the value of my art and how it contributes to our world perspective. Last updated in October 2022.

1 A Brief History of CoBrA Art The European avant-garde movement was active for only three years from 1948 to 1951. The name CoBrA was coined by the Belgian surrealist painter Christian Dotremont in 1948 and is short for Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam. During World War 2, the Netherlands was disconnected from the art world but many Dutch artist came out shortly after the War ended of which the CoBrA artists were among these. CoBrA artists worked experimentally and were often met with much criticism from Western society. Thus, their desire to break away from the established elite in art formed the movement. They detested naturalism and sterile abstraction, while instead introducing experimentation, which was symbolic of freedom, an almost childish and certainly fun approach to art. Of the most renowned original CoBrA artists can be mentioned Karel Appel, Christian Dotremont, Asgar Jorn, Corneille, Joseph Noiret, and Constant who in 1948 in the Café Notre-Dame in Paris, France met to sign a manifesto entitled “La cause était entendue" ("The Case Was Settled"), which formed the doctrine of compete freedom of color and formcombined with antipathy for surrealism. As common for many artists of this period, many of them were Marxists and modernists. CoBrA art is known for its child-like aspect of somewhat surrealism. It’s spontaneous and innovative with hints of the primitive interpretation of life. American abstract expressionists of the same period were centered mainly in the New York avant-garde milieu and relatively unknown in the late 1940s. However, several became household names, such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Clifford Still.

2 European abstract expressionist artists and CoBrA artists are known for strong colors, mythical and folkloric elements, violent handwritings, and disfigured figures. Sometimes they may even appear rather humorous and intimidating. In 2012, the Danish artist Hans Degner began to form his take on the CoBrA style of expression. His paintings emphasize free and impulsive expressions, physical character, freedom, and exploitations of techniques that create the depth of character indicative of his high quality of work. Occasionally, verbal expressions characterize certain periods of his life in his paintings. Hans Degner experiments with color combinations, forms, and shapes. One may characterize his art as an artistic marriage between American Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollack and German Gerhard Richter. Besides his exhibitions and sales in Denmark, Degner’s paintings have been exhibited in Berlin, Germany and in Paris, Cahors, and Orleans in France as well as London, England. He also spentsome time in Sweden. CoBrA paintings constitute more than half of Hans Degner’s work, which also include Abstracts and Provos.

3 Catalog #02281 Size (HxW): 100 cm x 100 cm 39” x 39” Acrylic on Canvas

4 Catalog #60215 Size (HxW): 100 cm x 100 cm 39” x 39” Acrylic on Canvas Catalog #30201

5 Catalog #181406 Size (HxW): 100 cm x 100 cm 39” x 39” Acrylic on Canvas

6 Catalog #181634 Size (HxW): 100 cm x 100 cm 39” x 39” Acrylic on Canvas

7 Size (HxW): 100 cm x 246 cm 39” x 97” Acrylic on Wood Catalog #21026

8 Size (HxW): 100 cm x 100 cm 39” x 39” Acrylic on Canvas Catalog #07041

9 Size (HxW): 100 cm x 100 cm 39” x 39” Acrylic on Canvas Catalog #50212

10 Size (HxW): 100 cm x 100 cm 39” x 39” Acrylic on Canvas Catalog #001241

11 Catalog #111626 Size (HxW): 150 cm x 100 cm 59” x 39” Acrylic on Canvas

12 An Overview of Abstract Art Abstract art is extremely diverse on multiple levels, such as in terms of the art itself and its usage. Since the Renaissance and until the middle of the nineteenth century, Western art was largely centered round a perspective of reality. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, this charged with the emergence of many artists who felt the need to revolutionize and modernize art incorporating technology, philosophy, science, and even current events. Abstract art stands out, as it uses visual language, such as shape, form, color, text, and lines in its composition. Abstract art, including CoBrA paintings, explores Western culture through these compositional elements. It’s often preoccupied with nonfigurative elements, distorted objectives, image association, and color journeys. Abstraction is defined by situations or elements that are not based on real situations, a departure, in other words, from reality into the imaginary world. The departure from reality may be merely a hint or complete, which allows for the art and artist to take extreme liberties in expression, such as in form, color exploration, and shapes, as seen in Hans Degner’s abstract and in his CoBrA paintings. While a spectator may at times perceive a piece of art as bearing not trace of reality or any reference to recognizable object, others may have quite opposite experiences.

13 Let’s consider this one: At first glance, you may only experience the warmth the yellow and red nuances invite you in with. The painting lures you from a distance to step closer and get up, close, and personal with it. With each step you take to get closer, you will start to notice the complexity and intricacies, the relationship between each brush stroke. As you become familiar with the painting, you may even notice that shadow at the bottom right hinting among the flaming red, orange, and yellow nuances, the little man. Is he fishing as the son sets? Who knows, but what you have just experienced is

14 an adventure, a journey into one of Hans Degner’s immaculate paintings. Hans Degner’s abstracts and CoBrAs uniquely stand out, as they sometimes may even contain a hint of reality representation. As the spectator explores his paintings from various angles and distances, they will often experience an expansion of what they really see. Some may call this visual deception, while others refer to this phenomenon as an expansion of the mind and intellectual experience of art. Hans Degner explores in his abstract expressionist art the paint surface with bold exaggerations, intense colors, emotionally charged forms and shapes married with a contemporary mysticism. He draws on conservative directions, while weaving in free portrayal of the psychological state of the mind in which that artist and his audience find themselves in. Explore and Enjoy!

15 Catalog #96944 Size (HxW): 100 cm x 100 cm 39” x 39” Acrylic on Canvas

16 Catalog #A0124 Size (HxW): 100 cm x 100 cm 39” x 39” Acrylic on Canvas

17 Catalog #150017 Size (HxW): 100 cm x 100 cm 39” x 39” Acrylic on Canvas

18 Size (HxW): 100 cm x 100 cm 39” x 39” Acrylic on Canvas Catalog #150632

19 Catalog #101422 Size (HxW): 100 cm x 150 cm 39” x 59” Acrylic on Canvas Sold

20 Size (HxW): 100 cm x 100 cm 39” x 39” Acrylic on Canvas Catalog #150523

21 Size (HxW): 190 cm x 190 cm 74.8” x 74.8” Acrylic on Canvas Catalog #746178

22 Catalog #148390 Size (HxW): 450 cm x 210 cm 177” x 83” Acrylic on Canvas Exhibited at Greve Business Center in Denmark.

23 Provo Art From the artist himself… I ponder. I read. I listen in, and I feel like there are words, sketches, animals, and everything else that creep into the painting endlessly. They affect the world that is unfolding on the canvas; life, injustices, misery, happiness, jokes, and every crazy thing that happen in our world today, right here, right now. When all that meets and merges, is summed up and applied to the canvas, my work as an artist is fantastic. My work is an endless chaos, which aims to provoke emotions, inspire the spectator. Art must be something that affects the spectator, so they will not forget… And forget the spectator will not. Hans Degner’s original development of Provo Art, his unique style, taps into our past, present, and future all in one exploration of mixed techniques. Using acrylic markers and pens on paper, Provo art blends techniques and style with verbal and non-verbal abstract expressions. As the world seems to turn upside down, past feuds resurface and become modern-day warfare, childish stickmen scattered strategically on the artistic surface calling on the spectator to question, put into perspective history, world current events, and the existential question “What is the meaning of life?”, the warning lamps flashes before the spectator’s eyes and pulls you in.

24 Provo art, his original artistic invention, is provocative. One cannot ignore it or disregard it without blindly ignoring and disregarding events unfolding in this digital world. It contains elements of the infantile pencil strokes, while blatantly exposing the deep insight into our complex reality by the artist. This style of abstract art, characterized by its abstraction form, is yet very present, but it would be incorrect to characterize it as surrealism, for it is not. It is its own animal, so to speak. Perhaps it is the animal within us, trying to claw its way out. Whatever the case, fabulously it is immaculate art that would be rightfully and perfectly placed and appreciated by its spectators in a business office, a conference room, or in the private home of an art collector.

25 Catalog #104347 Size (HxW): 50 cm x 70 cm 19.7” x 27.6” Framed. Acrylic, oil, and Acrylic Markers on Construction Paper.

26 Catalog #022103 Size (HxW): 50 cm x 70 cm 19.7” x 27.6” Framed. Acrylic, oil, and Acrylic Markers on Construction Paper.

27 Catalog #152941 Size (HxW): 50 cm x 70 cm 19.7” x 27.6” Framed. Acrylic, oil, and Acrylic Markers on Construction Paper.

28 Size (HxW): 50 cm x 70 cm 19.7” x 27.6” Framed. Acrylic, oil, and Acrylic Markers on Construction Paper. Catalog #152658

29 Size (HxW): 50 cm x 70 cm 19.7” x 27.6” Framed. Acrylic, oil, and Acrylic Markers on Construction Paper. Catalog #153423

30 Catalog #153119 Size (HxW): 50 cm x 70 cm 19.7” x 27.6” Framed. Acrylic, oil, and Acrylic Markers on Construction Paper.

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