Bears series of Painting by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK) 2009-2012

"Bears" is a series of paintings from Sebastian Bieniek's oeuvre of the Animalspaintings oeuvre. The first painting in the series was painted in 2009. Broadly speaking, the series, which has been continued with interruptions of sometimes several years, can be divided according to color.

The first paintings (2009-2012) were painted using a very special green paint, which the artist acquired after receiving a tube of it from the estate of a deceased neighbor who was also a painter. Once this tube was used up, Bieniek searched all the art supply stores in Germany and Italy for this light green paint, which has both a slight blue and yellow undertone, but he could find nothing comparable.

Therefore, after a few less intense paintings with a lot of white paint were done in between, blue-violet dominated in the second phase.

From 2012 onwards, two pictures that were ready-mades appeared in the third phase, and immediately afterwards in the fourth phase, bear pictures that were predominantly painted with the color brown and were therefore called "brown bears".

DEUTSCH

"Bären" ist eine Serie von Gemälden aus dem Oeuvre der Tierbildervon Sebastian Bieniek. Das erste Gemälde der Serie wurde in 2009 gemalt. Im Groben lässt sich die Serie, die mit Unterbrechung von teils mehreren Jahren, immer weiter fortgeführt wurde nach Farben unterteilen.

Die ersten Gemälde (2009-2012) wurden mit Zuhilfenahme einer ganz besonderen Grünen Farbe gemalt in deren Besitz der Künstler gekommen ist nachdem er eine Tube davon aus dem Nachlass eines verstorbenen malenden Nachbarn erhalten hatte. Nachdem diese Tube verbraucht war, hatte Bieniek alle Künstlerläden in Deutschland und in Italien nach dieser hellgrünen Farbe die sowohl einen leichten Blau- wie auch Gelbstich hat durchsucht aber er konnte nichts vergleichbares finden.

Deshalb dominierte - nachdem zwischendurch ein paar weniger Bilder mit viel Weißauftrag gemalt wurden - Blauviolett in der zweiten Phase.

Ab 2012 erschienen dann in der dritten Phase zwei Bilder die Ready-Mades waren und gleich danach in der vierten Phase Bären-Bilder die vorwiegend mit der Farbe Braun gemalt waren und deshalb "Braunbären" hießen.

1. "War Children"

An important key painting from the first "Green Phase." The aforementioned green dominates the lower left corner of the painting.

GREEN-PHASE BEGINNING -

CHIBOW, Children Born of War, Krieg, Kriegskind, Kriegskinder, Kinder

Title "War children" or (this has to be read like a dialogue): "Are you my daddy? - What have said the other?

- Maybe - Maybe", 100 x 120 cm. Oil on canvas, 2009, (bear)painting by Sebastian Bieniek. FOR SALE

Deutsch: "Besatzungskind" oder auch "Bist Du mein Papi? Vielleicht, was sagen die anderen? - Viellecht",

Concept/Background of the series:

Most of the paintings in this series were painted in oil on canvas.

The painting "The Ballerina Bear", on the other hand, is an overpainting of a portrait by Sebastian Bieniek, which was originally painted by a Georgian painter.

Some of the paintings were created accidentally or were found (ready mades). So the "Universal Bear" was originally a color palette until Sebastian Bieniek "discovered" a bear in it and gave it the name "Universal Bear". The situation is similar with "The Sad Bear". This work was also "found". It was originally a plate on which the artist put his tools, until he discovered a "bear" in it, which he named "The Sad Bear".

Noteworthy is also "The Suspended Bear". Sebastian Bieniek found this painting (painted by an unknown painter) next to a rubbish bin in Kreuzberg (that is a part of Berlin), took it with him (adopted it if you want) and called it "The Suspended Bear".

The "Secret Agent Bear Icognito", however, had to wait three years (2009-2012) until he got his final touches. This was nothing but the red nose that Sebastian Bieniek set up in 2012 and named him "Secret Agent Bear Icognito".

Also the last work, "The Unfinished Bear", had to wait from 2009 to 2012 until it got it's titel and got fineshed as an "Unfinished Bear".

2. "Shapeshifting"

Therianthropie, Bär, Bärengemälde, Bärenbild, Bear-Painting, Dog, Hund, Bieniek, Teddybär, Teddy,

Title: "Shapeshifting (the bear, the father and the dog), 140 x 90 cm. Oil on canvas, 2009,

(bear)painting by Sebastian Bieniek from the first Green-Phase. FOR SALE

Deutsch: "Therianthropie" (der Bär, der Vater und der Hund),

3. "Anti-capitalism"

Title: "Anti-capitalism" (the bear, the father and the dog), 140 x 90 cm. Oil on canvas, 2009,

(bear)painting by Sebastian Bieniek from the first Green-Phase. FOR SALE

Deutsch: "Antikapitalismus" (der Bär, der Vater und der Hund),

4. “The Unfinished Bear“

“The Unfinished Bear“ by Sebastian Bieniek. 100 x 80 cm. Oil on canvas. 2009-2012. Bear-painting by the artist from the first Green-Phase.

5. "Last Bear's Standing"

"Last Bear's Standing" by Sebastian Bieniek. 40 x 30 cm.

Öl auf Leinwand. Oil on canvas. 2012. SOLD

GREEN-PHASE END-

6. “The Unfinished Bear“

Title: "Shapeshifting (the bear, the father and the dog), 140 x 90 cm. Oil on canvas, 2009,

(bear)painting by Sebastian Bieniek. FOR SALE

Deutsch: "Therianthropie" (der Bär, der Vater und der Hund),

BLUE-PHASE BEGINNING-

7. "Shapeshifting"

Title "Shapeshifting (the bear, the father and the dog), 140 x 90 cm. Oil on canvas, 2009,

(bear)painting by Sebastian Bieniek. FOR SALE

Deutsch: "Therianthropie" (der Bär, der Vater und der Hund),

8. "The Ballerina Bear"

"The Ballerina Bear" (By S.B. overpainted portrait of S.B., originally painted by Georgian artist Otari Arisheli). 49.5 x 40 cm. Oil on canvas. 2011-2012

9. "The Bear Who's Watching The Rain Falling"