A painting becomes a virtuoso performance of exciting improvisation with the quintet in German artist Alfred Gockel’s “Take Five.” The work is classic Gockel: an abstract bursting with a frenzy of dramatic colors, forms and lines. Artistically gifted since childhood, Gockel had his first works published in a magazine when he was only 8. He later honed his talent at the Polytechnic Academy in Munster, freelancing as an artist and teaching after graduation, and then focusing on art full-time. Gockel now owns Avant Art, a prominent art publishing company, with loyal clientele in more than 50 countries.

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