Robert J-P. Hauck
Painting

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Robert Hauck expresses complex truths through with a minimalist, color-field vocabulary. He is a conceptual rather than a representational painter although his work is rooted in nature. His flat to shallow, two-dimensional compositional style expresses his conviction that the simplest explanations are the most elegant and truthful accountings of complex phenomena and relationships.

Blue Perspective

Green Perspective

Hauck's palette concentrates on intense color. When working in watercolor, he readily sacrifices the transparency of watercolor in order to preserve the intensity of pigments, not infrequently applying pigment directly from the tube to the paper.

Implication		Motivation
Shoreline

His approach to the process of painting is akin to that of watercolorist Charles Burchfield. "The best work," said Burchfield, "is done in retrospection. Even when working directly from nature, I am painting from memory; for not only am I trying to recapture the first vision or impression that attracted me (and which is all that is worth going after), but also the distillation of all previous similar experiences." His intention is to provide viewers with the least number of cues necessary to evoke his emotional impression of a subject or with which to develop their own impressions. Pictorial accuracy and local color do not figure into the calculus.