Son
réalisme pointilliste parvient à capturer l’essence même de la ville. Des maisons banales, des rues désertes, des pentes qui filent vers le
ciel ou descendent vers la baie et qui retranscrivent avec fidélité l’atmosphère qui
règne à San Francisco. Mais le sujet de ses gravures est moins ces paysages en tant que tels
que les jeux d’ombre et de lumière qui s’y déroulent. Cette lumière brumeuse
qui adoucit les couleurs et qui enveloppe San Francisco d’un voile de mystère.
C’est
pour cela que les paysages de Robert Bechtle resteront à jamais imprimés sur la
prunelle de mes yeux.
The
first time I had visited Crown Point Press gallery, an exhibition about
landscape gathered several artists. Among them : Robert Bechtle. I had been in
San Francisco for several weeks then and my eyes were immediatly attracted by
his cityscapes.
The
pointillist realism of Robert Bechtle catchs the essence of the city. His prints
of ordinary houses, of empty streets, of slopes that go up to the sky or go
down to the Bay reproduce the special atmosphere of San Francisco. But his
subject is not so much cityscapes as light and shadow. The misty character of
light that tones down colors and envelops San Francisco with a shroud of
mystery.
For
this reason the cityspaces of Robert Bechtle are indelibly printed on my
pupils.
http://www.crownpoint.com/artists/bechtle
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| 20th Street Capri, 2002 Color direct gravure with spit bite aquatint and soft ground etching 9 x 12 inches |
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| Three Houses on Pennsylvania Avenue, 2011. Color soft ground etching with aquatint 22 1/2 x 31 inches |
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| Potrero Intersection - Blue sky, 2002 Color soft ground etching with aquatint 6 x 12 inches |
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