Der traurige Clown - Porträt, 2022 style:portrait The layered application of color

The layered application of color is particularly evident in the words "That stays" and "that comes away"

which is not only expressed in his tear-soaked face: the entire painting is crying

The Berlin artist Susanne Haun uses pastels experimentally in her paintings

Zusammen sind sie ein Schmaus für Augen und Seelen großer und kleiner Kunstliebhaber*innen

Der traurige Clown - Porträt, 2022 style:portrait The layered application of colorIn her sad clown, Susanne Haun depicts two existential states of human emotional life: sadness and happiness. She covers the pure colors of the painting in several layers with pastel shades that are created from white and the still wet ink. If the clown acts happy in front of his audience, he is filled with great sadness in his private space, which is not only expressed in his tear soaked face: the entire painting is crying. Haun deliberately places