The beauty of decay

The thematic focus of my presented work is on transience. Socially, there is a departure from the theme of the transience of life. The media attention is often on fun, action and distraction. People are thus deprived of the view of the omnipresent passing. And when media and art do deal with the passing, it is usually associated with sadness or fear or violence.

The passing is a universal constant. The confrontation with it, combined with the understanding that precisely in this lies beauty, is a progressive and modern approach. My flower paintings show metaphorically "The beauty of decay".

Bio
Bringing the beautiful world of flowers into a deep, complex context is a challenge to which the internationally recognised artist Marieluise Bantel devotes herself with passion. With her art, she not only depicts the diverse world of plants, because her paintings use the plants as symbols for the totality of life on all levels, with all its facets.
The depicted plants have sweeping forms and three-dimensional shadows that are found in nature and in man-made objects and therefore arouse particular interest in the viewer.