
Bla, Bla, Bla
2013
Christian Rosa's mixed media work combining charcoal, oil, oil stick, and pastel on canvas to create a composition with the title 'Bla, Bla, Bla.' The layering of materials and repetitive title suggest themes of communication and meaninglessness.
- Medium
- charcoal, oil, oil stick and pastel on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
March 3, 2023
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Cy Twombly
American · b. 1928

Twombly similarly combined oil, crayon, and mark making on canvas to explore themes of language, repetition, and communication breaking down into abstract gesture. His scrawled text and layered mixed media surfaces share the same raw, expressive quality seen in Rosa's work.

Albert Oehlen
German · b. 1954

Oehlen builds heavily layered abstract canvases using oil and mixed media with a loose, gestural energy that parallels Rosa's approach to material accumulation and contemporary abstraction. Both artists embrace a deliberately unresolved, process driven aesthetic.

Charline von Heyl
German · b. 1960

Von Heyl works with charcoal, oil, and pastel on canvas to create layered abstract compositions that balance controlled mark making with spontaneous gesture, closely mirroring Rosa's material choices and visual language. Her work shares the same contemporary abstract sensibility rooted in mixed media exploration.
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