Translation of "Bildidee" in English

Starting from the inkblot she initiates the drawing without a tangible idea in mind.

Marco Rietz also has not committed to one single pictorial idea.

The idea as well as the execution is independent from the present exhibition.

We are looking forward to your innovative photo idea.

As opposed to her Urbanlandscapes, she starts drawing without a specific image idea.

Whether the photographer should choose a softer or harder light, depends on the idea for the photo.

My subsequent contribution was then the reason to realise this idea in a large oil painting.

On the other hand the artist strove for his characteristic image form without prejudice and has realized his personal image idea.

But the most exciting picture idea shows the castaway under water surrounded by sharks without diving equipment.

According to the artist, these paintings are to a considerable extent dependent on chance and often contradict in their final version of his initial image idea.

So whenever I get a new image idea I first ask myself which kind of client would buy it.

After [destroying] the proportion studies, in 1954/55 I decided to take up once more my gesticulative-expressive concept of 1951/52.

And whether that might perhaps become a whole town depends on the idea for the picture and the thoughts are behind it.

In order to take these photographs, Reusse met with and entreated the local farmers and knackers until they finally told him where he might find a dead animal with which to realise his compositional idea (before the animal had been turned into soap).

Regardless of whether it was a portrait or a still life with fruit: for Schjerfbeck, the idea for the painting, the arrangement of the forms, and the combination of the colors had priority.

The pictorial idea thus takes shape several times, resulting in an emphasis that one picture alone could not attain.

While some of her colleagues execute large-scale photo series in which a single aspect is singled out and parsed in all its variations, Gudrun Kemsa consolidates a pictorial idea into individual works that harbor all its complexity, and which are then occasionally joined by one or several partner images, for instance her stairway panoramas in which several people are brought together to create a new dramaturgy.

However, polas in general and those test shots in particular have their own special appeal. It is not uncommon that the follow up shots on roll film, despite or because of their technical perfection, cannot live up to the intensity - and the "authentic" impression of what the idea of the picture was - of such a pola negative with all its flaws.

In the meantime, my approach (according to Professor Anzinger's saying) is: "First kill the motif or your image idea, and let it re-emerge in the painting process"

While he was originally concerned with the non-colours grey, white and black and with the dense materiality of graphite, a subsequent material disengagement penetrated his pictorial premise to such an extent that he turned the colour spectrum in the direction of chromatic light.

Oskar Schmidt’s astute and playful investigation of reality and its likeness, transforms a historic, social-documentary concept in his present-day artist’s studio.

The idea for this triptych comes from the memory of the Italian artist Guilianna del Zanna at a French cattle market.

The artist originally came up with this pictorial concept in Davos, inspired by avalanche barriers on the Schiahorn mountain above Parsenn.

He uses any form of ancient material, even small antique art to its associative visual idea to bring for display.

And it is in the process of building itself that I gradually discover what my original idea for a picture amounted to - as well as the message, the atmosphere, that I actually have in mind.