Göransson develops his painting
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the paintings
 In
1929 Åke Göransson contracts pneumonia, and starts living
as a convalescent at home. He withdraws from other people and devotes
himself entirely to painting, without having to worry about his
support. It was at this time, in the early thirties, that he created
his foremost works of art. Åke Göransson looks at color
as the central part of painting. He is busy solving the problem
he refers to as "färgformen", that is the "color
form", which is a concept invented by Göransson himself.
How can shapes be formed by colors? Göransson wants to free
himself from the world outside and make ethereal pictures. This
is how art critic Gotthard Johansson describes Göransson's
flower pieces and indoor pictures:
 "Color
loses its gravity, matter its density, the air shimmers of a color
that has released itself from the surface of things and has become
a mysterious fluid that fills the air with something floating and
cool, light and sweet. In some merely hinted indoor pictures the
poor home turns to a rich, blooming color-garden of Bonnard."
Åke Göransson's painting goes
through a development, in which the concrete motifs he always starts
with get more and more abstracted. From 1933, the artist starts
to increasingly experience the material world as a threat, and his
painting becomes a struggle between color and shape. Color takes
over more and more at the same time as shape is dissolving. The
soft grayish blue hues are replaced with strong, brilliant colors,
often painted on the surface of older paintings.
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