The interplay of color and brushwork characterizes Günther Förg's works. In contrast to Hard-Edge painting, his color fields take on vibrancy through broad brushstrokes, which energize the monochrome surfaces and set them in motion. In our work from 1991, Förg painted glazing black brushstrokes vertically across a yellow surface. Through this stylistic device, he combined the pure effect of color with a classic painterly component. The overlapping broad brushstrokes create an impression of spatiality and a structured pictorial surface. In Günther Förg's paintings, the conceptual construction often recedes behind a process-oriented creativity. Through the exploration of formal structures and motifs in a wide variety of materials and media, as in the serial development of a theme, Förg's attitude and method become evident: it is not the autonomous individual work that comes to the fore, but the process of creation, which becomes the message” (Ingrid Rein, in: Günther Förg, exhibition catalog, Fridericianum Kassel, Stuttgart, 1990, p. 10).