Original Thierry Noir Art

Jazz

Jazz is a unique synthesis between the worlds of art and music as seen through the eyes of infamous Berlin Wall artist Thierry Noir. Many parallels can be drawn between Noir's iconic visual language and the music that inspired it. Clashing colours appear like discordant notes that, once played, reveal an unexpected beauty. The spontaneous nature of his practice emphasises speed, movement and immediacy; like jazz, it is never static. The dance of line and colour is instinctive and energetic. For Noir, art is a performance.

HEADS

Thierry Noir’s classic heads on canvas are the timeless expression of his artistic aesthetic. Since the 1980s these iconic heads have become globally famous and themselves come to define and era of Berlin subculture. Each an original work of art created by the artist, Thierry Noir’s heads are available on canvas or cardboard. The instant recognition of Noir’s lines show the power and pervading influence of the artist’s visual language.

FAST FORM MANIFEST

Thierry Noir: "I can remember the last day of an early exhibition in January 1985 in a restaurant in Berlin-Kreuzberg. A Japanese man, who was straight next to me, said: Your pictures are nice however they are too complicated, much too complicated. Imagine yourself, as a Japanese man who returns back home, after 8 hours at the office and one hour and half hour in the train. You open the door of your apartment, look at the wall, see your painting and think: Too complicated! The man was right. Now the Fast Form manifest is here and takes care that my pictures are not too complicated."

ELEPHANT KEY

Thierry Key: “This elephant was one of the earliest paintings that I made on the Berlin Wall. I began to paint outside because I wanted to say that it is good to put art in the streets and not solely in museums and galleries. This painting represented for me the key to success – heavy work every day. If you wait at home for inspiration, you can wait very long.”

CARDBOARDS

In 1984 Thierry Noir settled in a squat overlooking the Berlin Wall. For five years, Noir covered the Wall, more than 3 metres high, with his now iconic works in bright, vivid colours, using whatever paint he could scavenge from nearby construction sites. Noir’s objective was to perform one real revolutionary act: To paint the Wall, to transform it, to make it ridiculous, and ultimately to help destroy it. During this time, Noir painted his infamous heads on scraps of cardboard he found in the streets. To survive, he sold these cardboard works in the evenings to the people sitting in Berlin’s many restaurants and cafes.

WORKS ON PAPER

These classic and rare Thierry Noir works on paper are from the Thierry Noir archive and date back to the early 1990s.
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