The Functionalist by Donald Schenkel

Framed view of The Functionalist by Donald Schenkel, showing a warm vertical mark within a blue oil-painted field.
Detail of The Functionalist, with the wooden frame beside the orange-red trace and shifting blue paint.
Close view of the oil-painted surface of The Functionalist, where a blurred vertical mark interrupts the blue field.
Side view of The Functionalist in its wooden frame, showing the framed canvas and its blue-and-orange composition.
Angled view of The Functionalist by Donald Schenkel, showing the irregular edge of the warm mark against blue paint.
Framed view of The Functionalist by Donald Schenkel, showing a warm vertical mark within a blue oil-painted field.
Detail of The Functionalist, with the wooden frame beside the orange-red trace and shifting blue paint.
Close view of the oil-painted surface of The Functionalist, where a blurred vertical mark interrupts the blue field.
Side view of The Functionalist in its wooden frame, showing the framed canvas and its blue-and-orange composition.
Angled view of The Functionalist by Donald Schenkel, showing the irregular edge of the warm mark against blue paint.

The Functionalist by Donald Schenkel

€2,500.00

By Donald Schenkel
Oil on canvas
60 × 70 cm, 2026
Wooden frame included

In The Functionalist, Donald Schenkel places a warm vertical trace within a blue field that gradually opens towards pale light. The title suggests order and efficiency; the paint introduces something less predictable. Schenkel uses self-developed tools to guide and disrupt oil paint, leaving room for irregularity and chance. Here, the central mark interrupts the expansive colour field, bringing his material investigation into focus. The result is a contemporary abstract oil painting shaped by the tension between control and impermanence.

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Donald Schenkel’s paintings are part of a broader development within contemporary abstract art, where colour, material and gesture are approached as spatial elements. His work is characterised by gradient transitions, vertical interruptions and a restrained yet precise use of oil paint. Each painting is executed in a single layer, allowing no corrections, resulting in a direct and physical image.
Collectors and institutions interested in contemporary abstract painting, colour field abstraction and minimal gestural painting will find his work situated within an ongoing dialogue on material presence and perception.

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