Here you can see the freedom of improvisation used, the inspiration in technique, color, tools. No complete detachment from everything, but the reference to the celestial bodies or the Zen circle often remains recognizable.

Marianne Marx-Bleil often painted these works with background music. The sounds of classical Japanese musical instruments such as the bamboo flute, koto, drum etc. could be heard, or the jazz-like, meditative improvisations of Wolfgang Dauner and Chrlie Mariano (Tagore). Or perhaps just the bright sound of the wind bell outside the window.

The painter also tried to capture the acoustic dynamics, the tensions and their dissolution of music, compressed in color and line as a snapshot on her painting surface. Wave images, a symbol of dynamism, of minutes flowing by in life, but also of strength and return, often played an important role in her work. The Zen circle, also known as Enso, with its broad symbolic meanings, also appears again and again. All this expresses and shows a detachment from the traditional ink painting themes and yet also a certain attachment in spirit and technique

See more works by Marianne Marx-Bleil in Sumi-e:

Figurative

Animals

Landscape

Moon/Sun

Plants