“Movement Between Silence and Sound” Art Nova Magazine By Molood Azimipour
In this abstract composition by Birgit Theissen-Becker, we encounter a world where form, color, and texture engage in a wordless yet resonant dialogue. The painting unfolds like a musical score, orchestrated in cool, muted tones—deep blues, misty whites, and penetrating blacks—creating an inner rhythm that draws the viewer inward.
Structure and Composition: The Architecture of Silence
The visual structure rests on a fluid yet coherent geometry. Vertical and horizontal lines hover like suspended scaffolds, delineating the threshold between order and chaos. These lines are not mere visual elements; they are carriers of meaning—transparent walls that separate memory from the present, presence from absence. Within this framework, color fields and layered textures settle like sedimented time, each stratum whispering its own story.
Color and Psyche: Blue as a Mirror of the Soul
Blue dominates the canvas—not just as an aesthetic choice, but as an emotional language. The deep blues evoke psychological depth, a liminal space between dream and reality, serenity and unrest. White offers breath, a foggy pause, while black punctuates the composition like a moment of stillness. Together, these hues form a triadic harmony that is both familiar and enigmatic.
Texture and Layers: The Memory of Matter
The dense, stratified textures seem to archive the memory of matter itself. Each brushstroke, scrape, and overlay becomes a trace of time, experience, and erasure. These layers do not merely cover the surface; they penetrate the psyche, much like memories that settle in the folds of the unconscious.
Motion and Stillness: A Dance Within Stasis
Despite its architectural stillness, the painting pulses with motion. Lines diverge and converge, color fields evaporate or condense, and spaces oscillate between fullness and void. This tension between movement and stillness invites contemplation on time, transformation, and the paradox of permanence.
Conceptual Reading: Painting as the Language of the Unconscious
Theissen-Becker’s work reads like a visual text, where the vocabulary is made of lines and colors, and meaning arises in the spaces between. This is not a representation of the external world, but a reflection of the inner one—a realm where the boundaries between dream and form dissolve. The viewer is not merely observing an image but entering a psychological state, a meditative terrain of layered perception.
Discretion Artist: Birgit Theissen-Becker From: Germany 
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“Analysis Of Paintings ” By : Molood Azimpour @molood_azimpour_painter Sunday. December 21th, 2025 Location: Art Nova Magazine @artnovamagazine Graphic Designer: Sociomax @socio_maxx
Artists:
John Hansen. Denmark Mohammad Ali Moshrefi. Iran Maria Stoltefaut. Germany Vonne Van Der Meulen. Netherlands Birgit Theissen-Becker. Germany Sabine Kay. Luxembourg Jancic Zec Zeljko. Austria Hannya Ani. England Angelo De Boni. Italy Rafa López. Spain Mimi Dura. Spain Hüseyin Baran. Turkey Dilek Basoda. Turkey
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