Naturaquarell, Seine, Oissel, Normandie, Frankreich Painting

Nature-Watercolors https://www.blurb.de/books/8486423-naturaquarelle-1977-bis-2017-ma ________________________________ The water rushed, the water swelled Eva Maria Reuther, Art Correspondet "The water that moves in the river is either called or expelled or it moves on its own. When it is called or shall I say begged who is the caller? When it is expelled, who is expelling it? When it moves by itself, it shows that it can think but with a body that continually changes its shape, it is not possible that it can think because such a body lacks insight ". (From Leonardo da Vinci’s, Water Theory) Probably few artists were as fascinated by water as Leonardo da Vinci. Throughout his lifetime he grappled with its nature and constantly changing appearance. Just as the earth was to him a body, the rivers and streams appeared to him as an extensive and vital network of veins, in which the water transported life as well as danger and death. To this day waterways hold a great fascination. They always seem to be surrounded by the mystery that Leonardo tried to explore. The ancient cultures answer to free thinking water organisms, was to create a belief that populated their streams and rivers with gods and mythical creatures. This explanation could hardly satisfy the scientifically seeking polymath Leonardo. More than 200 years after Leonardo, there was another alliance between nature and culture. The landscape became the soul and panorama of romance. In the natural language of water the Romantics realized their own nature, and heard the echo of their own soul and the world's. In their poems and texts murmured the brooks, menacingly rushing and swelling the rivers and this noise rings the familiar sound of home. On the banks of streams and rivers rests the weary traveler that feels one with the softly rippling water that cools and sometimes comforts him. He, who speaks of water, inevitably speaks of change. Nowhere else is the image of restlessness and unstoppable change as obvious as with water. Mario Reis, too, succumbed to the fascination of water. The question of the nature of rivers and streams, according to the shape of their movement - their natural reason, which is possibly not understandable to man has been driving the Düsseldorf painter for a long time.