We were on the beaches.....

"It was a blessed time - we were on the beaches"        Guillaume Apollinaire


 I am exploring the figure on the beach for quite some years now. Living on the Côte d’Azur for ten years, there were many moments of inspiration, that I could put into my beach paintings. The Baltic Sea with it's endless sandy beaches were explored, while living in Berlin. 



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Fred Jürgen Rogner has been involved with art for several decades now. His paintings have been exhibited both nationally and internationally, while his career has gone through several stages. 

My style is, that I don’t have a style.

He is an award-winning artist based in Germany. His career began with the informal, then morphed into airbrush realism with a focus on figurative themes and landscapes. His work is now a days all digital

Fred Jürgen Rogner

 

How would you describe your style? 

Good question! Normally I would like to answer to that one: My style is that I don’t have a style. 

But let’s answer this one in a bit more detail. In school I used what was available, pen and ink or for the big paintings  watercolor on sheets of paper. It was partly abstract, with psychedelia mixed in or figurative. Lot’s of skulls, probably due to the age and the life in boarding school. A bit like Basquiat. Over the years my work became more realistic. But always moving between pop art, surrealism and psychedelic art. Because of the surreal element in it, I drifted into science fiction and made a lot of commissioned work for SF Publishers. I moved from airbrush painting to painted acrylic artwork. Since digitalizing my work in 1996 it is even more varied. In the beginning I relied on photographic reference a lot. Now with the computer I am creating everything in the 3D environment, to then compose it and paint it over digitally. Each artwork is almost composed like an animation, without the movement. 

Sometimes I like to call my style Post Modern Romanticism.