Painting titled "Musica Poetica – pa…" by Noël Van Hoof, Original Artwork, Watercolor

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Musica Poetica – part 3: Hexeneinmaleins (2022) Painting by Noël Van Hoof

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Dimensions Height 14.2in, Width 11.8in
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Categories Paintings under $1,000 Illustration Music

The “Hexeneinmaleins” is an excerpt from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust I" in the witch's kitchen scene. Mephisto leads Faust to a witch's kitchen to have a rejuvenating potion brewed for Faust. Amid all sorts of spectacles, the witch recites the following spell from a thick book:
„Du musst verstehn!
   Aus Eins mach’ Zehn,
   Und Zwei lass gehn,
   Und Drei mach’ gleich,
   So bist Du reich.
   Verlier’ die Vier!
   Aus Fünf und Sechs,
   So sagt die Hex’,
   Mach’ Sieben und Acht,
   So ist’s vollbracht:
   Und Neun ist Eins,
   Und Zehn ist keins.
   Das ist das Hexen-Einmal-Eins!“
(Vers 2540 bis 2552)

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Watercolor

Watercolor is a painting in which gum arabic binds transparent pigments revealing the support of the painting. The gouache, of identical composition, is opaque. A watercolor is a water-based painting on paper. We rarely speak of a painting for a work painted in watercolor. Watercolor paintings are considered to be a unique way to creatively represent dreams, illusions, emotions and luminous feelings using water soluble pigments. However, painting with watercolors can be difficult. It's a difficult medium to master, in large part because it can be ruthless and unpredictable. Mistakes are difficult to correct and its fluid nature makes it difficult to control. Yet it is these very qualities that give the medium its undeniable charm.

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