— The artwork unites image and language in a meditation on rhythm and silence. The page becomes a dialogue between poetry and gesture, between the written word and the visual trace. The dense black forms on the right rise like geological strata — compressed time rendered in ink — while the handwritten verse on the left breathes with the pulse of memory and thought.
Hartung’s composition is not an illustration but an echo: the poem’s cadence reverberates through the dark, vertical planes. The brushstrokes evoke both rock and sound, the tactile and the ephemeral. Within this tension, abstraction acquires the intimacy of confession.
Campagne de schiste embodies Hartung’s lifelong search for harmony between intellect and instinct. It is a visual poem where matter becomes metaphor — an invocation of inner landscapes, of silence sculpted into form.
Hans Hartung is best known for his gestural abstract paintings, marked by dynamic brushstrokes, scratches, and graphic lines that appear both spontaneous and deliberate. Hartung’s style bridges the European tachisme movement and abstract expressionism, making him a key figure in the global development of gestural abstraction.
