Miklos Nemeth

With Waterfall, Miklós Németh oscillates between Abstract Expressionism and Neo-Expressionism. At the centre, a compact, vertically driven blue mass forms the waterfall. Along the lower edge, this mass breaks apart; light blue and white passages condense into a broad zone of spray. Deeper green-black areas frame the scene laterally as rock walls, while a narrow, light band at the top suggests distance.

The paint is emphatically gestural and impasto: broad strokes, layering and palette-knife traces create a corporeal surface. The vertical course of the blues articulates the fall. High chroma—together with the physical brushwork—renders the released energy of the water immediately palpable.

In its palette and dense materiality, the work recalls Bengt Lindström’s Ymer. Shared features include ultramarine-to-cobalt main fields, a relief-like paint surface and precisely placed warm accents. Whereas Ymer condenses energy into iconic whorls and a monumental pillar, Waterfall unfolds a horizontal panorama: a central drop, held laterally by rock, resolving below into a dense spray.

With Waterfall, Németh does not intend a naturalistic landscape, but a translation of force and water’s energy into colour and material. The conjunction of gestural abstraction and expressionist intensity makes the process perceptible—as an event of painting.