Friday, January 28, 2011

Whats A Household Lube

PARADISO. CANTO II - In the small boat

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DGK, in the small boat, 2011, 15 cm x 20 cm, China ink rag paper, for a better presentation scanned on a gray background






This Sheet is no longer available. See you next weekend
of 04.02. until 06.02.2011 on this blog.

In the third book of Paradise I read every day and found a passage to which I made in recent days, some drawings.
is in the original old Italian Tuscan version of Dante is the second song in paradise:

Canto secondo

O voi che siete in piccioletta barca,
desiderosi d'ascoltare, seguiti
dietro al mio legno che cantando Varca,
li vostri liti tornate a rived:
non vi mettet in pelago, ché forse,
perdendo me, rimarreste smarriti.

Philalethes, pseudonym of John of Saxony (1801-1873), Saxon king and Translators, assigned these lines into German:

second song


O you who followeth her fully in a small boat
listen longing
are my ship pulls along with singing,
reverses that back euern beach you see!
Begebt you not go to high seas, you would like to stay there
lost when their verlöret me!






Wednesday, January 26, 2011

My Bed Slats Keep Falling Out

Of the troubles - Beatrice

Beatrice Dante explained at the beginning of the flight height provided in the order paradise, with the God of the universe and has used it a good likeness. "But just as often a work not because of his unruly matter turns on the intent of the artist - just sometimes gives way the creature, which has the ability to draw frey in another direction, of the momentum after that amount, where it emportreibet his instinct. "
translated the Baroque poet Lebrecht Bach cock in prose.





Sunday, January 23, 2011

Substitute Coconut For Butter In Baking

prefaces - Auction No. 01

Now it is almost time: Today, in 8 days it is being offered my first page on the Internet in an auction to buy!
This Friday, 28 January from 20.00 clock I will offer a work created in this week here on my blog as a unique and Sunday, 30 January 20.00 clock ibid receive offers by mail. So if Sunday EVENING SESSION 20.00 clock makes the highest bid wins the contract. I'm working on small-sized leaves, which will follow later in my everyday work then small-but large-scale works in oil on canvas. But first I offer from the 28.01. for auction at 30.01. an ink drawing on handmade paper 110g/cm ² with dimensions X 15 cm to 20 cm, which then follow each Sunday on the same conditions further. First, the material and subject of my current employment with the Divine Comedy by Dante, specifically his journey through the heavenly spheres.
Until then, a little more time and opportunity on my website work on the last year considered. I am pleased with the interest in my work and wish all the resolute and reluctant bidders have a nice week.








Thursday, January 20, 2011

Does Taking Iron Tablets Make The Baby Dark

example-Wiepersdorf leaves


                                                                                                                                                                                                                

DGK, W. Bl., No. 16, Paradise, 2010, 21.5 cm x 20.5 cm, China ink on cardboard and metal percussion




One of my current sheets Divine Comedy incurred during my stay in the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, here shown. Paradiso. The journey of Dante in the company of Beatrice to the stars by the nine heavenly spheres of Paradise described in thirty-three songs.
Again and again I read in different translations and I lose myself like as a reader in the wonderful travel books of the poet.
Dante's "Divine Comedy" has Over the centuries, many authors proposed their own translations. More than 60 translations into German are known. The vast majority of which is devoted to the model-oriented verse. . One of the oldest and in book form laid prose-text editions, the Germans of the Lebrecht Bach tail Between 1767 and 1769 appeared in Leipzig in self-publishing, he wrote approvingly in the "preliminary", now well known rather preface, to the great Dante, the end of the and third last poem of the Garden:
"I now put the learned and noble-minded world, the translation of the third and final poem Dantesque of the Garden before his eyes. I admit it frey, that my translation of these three extraordinary serious poetry has caused an extraordinary effort. has done, and I confess it openly that my helpless shoulder trembled under the weight of such a heavy work often, and my feet untrodden paths on so many missteps.
I have all my strength gesammlet, to complete a company, about which even wise and learned princes testified their satisfaction in giving me the gracious expressions. And Hamburg, Leipzig, and others have learned and dignified judge of art, as an excellent expert on Dante, from access and equity, through their candid Approbation, by their modest memories, and by their kind encouragements to me so much courage eingeflößet that I must boast such a network.
alone are not the sublime truths in this instructive poems by many mortals to tangy, spicy taste to be of? - Posed this question, by Dante, as a precaution, in Paradise, he received the following answer there:
'Your voice, the voice of reason, virtue, and religion, is equal to the wind-ing, the highest Summit shaken excellent; no small sign of a noble soul. Only one with its own, or with foreign shame stained conscience will be your speech sensitive and forth. - Let therefore impure souls are getting injured by it. - Because your speech will initially be of disagreeable taste, it is afterwards, when it is digested, leave a food to life '. "

Carl Nyholm, a Danish professor, transferred " Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy from the Italiänischen translated and annotated accompanied by Lebrecht Bach tail in 2003 into a digital form and made these only in rare original editions traditional translation of the 18th century any interested accessible. gave thanks and respect for this great idea and elaborate performance!





Wednesday, January 12, 2011

John Deere Choke Cable Snowmobile

A trip with Chagall

prejudice against the Chagall painting it during his lifetime. There is opportunity selbige abolish or improve it until Sunday, 16 January in Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg . Marc Chagall. Lifelines
I myself am happy with in this small museum spaces well and so carefully and above all, made clear exhibitions. And they are open daily.
Now Chagall and me. In my youth I admired the dry-point etchings of Vitebsk, the place of his childhood and youth. Velvety black sky, fiddling farmers and flying grandfathers. Later, he himself with the beloved ibid. Where can fly, if not in heaven? And wear this sky! Anyone who saw the pictures by Bonnard, Utrillo and Modigliani and feels like it is appreciated the Chagall.
Chagall an artist? No, a magician!
me for a surprise, the skin of paint his pictures. Away with the well-kept prejudice. Not arts and crafts such as refined or even naive in print.
A painter who paints from the Kopp! I like me. Invented colors and spotted with the senses on the painting ground, wiped, drawn, rejected and positioned decided. Images that tell even without historicizing use and thereby project a feeling of melancholy and joyous celebration in the harsh world of the viewer's own memory. The skin of paint. The addict knows, there are held to explore.
If there is someone on site, the staff, sent, however, deflects, then it is advisable to drill with quick close the eyes in the image itself, trötet to quite distant and quiet, an acoustic warning.
The painter would allow this Nahwahrnehmung sympathetic! Ultimately Now everything is the pasty place by dried and the penetrance of the very watchful and suspicious guards should already be broken occasionally by his own good humor will. Who really bears already sympathetic to the privacy of any rescinding control eye of a uniformed? In the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, MOMA briefly mentioned, I recently saw a "Chagall" highly visible with a 1 cm ² large hole at center. I probably was not the first and did not see the last of the irritating this crime.
So, be brave those with pure intentions.
Marc Chagall. Lifelines a good destination for a journey into the world of Marc Chagall.






Tuesday, January 11, 2011

How To Make Diced Tomato

view and greeting in the January sky

Manfred de la Motte was born today 76 years ago.
the early 90s I met him for the first time an exhibition opening in the prestigious Berlin Galerie Georg Nothelfer in company with the Greifswald gallery Hubert Schwarz. His residence was impressive behind the massive desk Designer Gallery. Edited text.
a pedant! A little later, there were appointments, Manfred de la Motte, invited me as a curator in charge of it Exhibitions, we traveled together in France to Autun. He showed me a fine Köstler Food Stores in the old Paris, tested with me the most delicious Zuckerrohrgesöffe the city to buy the ex-colonial Caribbean La Rhumerie on the Boulevard Saint-Germain. Almost infinitely long card up and down. And it was summer in Paris! Fluxus or informal, Now art or early Romanesque sculpture in the Louvre. to stroll with him to try small tarts or to curse once heartily over the rotating dollar signs in the eyes of the shopkeepers in the art business. De la Motte there often missed the pioneering spirit of discovery and the courage to take risks. He was always a keen mind, thinking like around corners and in his commitment to art, he ran ahead of other enthusiasts also like a few steps.
's one thing I am sure, there is a heaven artist, he has much to do there.









Thursday, January 6, 2011

Arabic Happy Birthday To My Friend

A painting a day - an offer and a start

. DGK, W. Bl, No. 37, Paradise, 2010, 17.5 cm x 35 cm, China ink on cardboard


Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line - this sentence, according to Pliny, and probably one day solution for each image artist is facing a phenomenon that I occasionally quite some time from the corner of my eye watching suspicious of: A painting a day. An idea from overseas, bring images directly from the painting people in the collecting - so without acting gallery owners, curators and museums operating largely without feature. Now, painting is a very free thing and nothing is more convincing as a successful trade. Or?
There is already visible with the most superficial perception very much questionable on the platforms, such as in blogs. And yes, there is at least suggested success stories here and there in the self-marketing. Every day a picture to auction to the highest bidder, it can be done well? Does this addition to the monetary yet another meaning? Of course, buyers and collectors are happy when they caught a "good" day.
the filing bidder is sitting at the computer every day and slave of his own business idea? The one or the other leads the word freedom in his mouth. New question mark. Bring the offering artist not a major part of his independence if he, like a drive every day operates a theme, a format and an imaginary buyer? How does the artist in the web presenting to an emerging interest in all original objects? How does the highest bidder Vita's artistic image of the producer of art? How does this trade from the studio out the already battered art market in its self-renewing structures? Are there really new rivalries, or the gallery owners are now even interested in that market artists and autonomous? What speaks against small-scale works from the Artist to purchase via the Internet. Bigger is always better anyway should the artist or the gallery owners on site exercise sensibly and then carry home happy. A probably ambivalent act? Productive Resistance and critical self-reflection are as well the classical and best sponsors against distorting influence of satisfaction in the dress of Mammon.
may at one, however, be remembered, a more immediate actions and reactions for those involved in the Internet is only in off- life possible, but because the actors are compared to the flesh. Anonymous, as we know, the user is happy to quick to make opinions. So what. After all, the world at least in part, "at home", both distance and closeness, esteem and harsh criticism as well. The forms and sharpens the mind and opens doors, of which there has been perhaps no knowledge. And that's what!
On Sunday the 30th January 2011 I will begin to auction each Sunday in a row, a work in progress. The rules for the auction I will give previously known yet on this blog. First, then regular small-scale ink drawings are available to document the graphic result of my current preoccupation with Dante's epic and support. The topic of this offered ink drawings: Paradiso. The work is only original drawings, and therefore unique. It would be very happy if many curious and guide their attention and interest on my blog and my activities would depend on the net. For useful tips and information on any material or formal errors in this blog for my part I am very grateful.






The picture of the price - an open secret


Any art lover will once When asked how the price of an art object is determined. An indefinable spicy affair? Not at all. The art market rules similar to those on the weekly market. The best known example is the pricing on the basis of demand. Now some cry out that the comparison. In my profession of painting and drawing the matter is quite simple. Because it give a formula. The final price the customer with the deal to the artist or gallery owner either pays Ensemle arises in a variety of criteria and considerations.
following requirements are taken into the equation: First, the Vita of the artist. Where did he learn what training, what with major grants He was awarded? Anyone who has already presented his work out (museums, galleries, art fairs) Who has already invested in the artist (museums, collections, galleries)? However, various fixed costs in the studio and gallery sector are low making and of course the importance of the work itself being valued for the work of the author. But how are all these factors have a price? Is chosen as such a gut? Of course, this is it. Since the games would be pure speculation. But the serious artist or gallery owner is very happy with these decisions, because the collector's favor is highly valued and mutual trust is paramount. We know that capital is a shy deer. Also on the art market. And flowers which can drive this market in a way is very clear in the documentation "The millions of bubbles" the filmmaker Ben Lewis for ARTE. yet to see on youtube.



Now back to the fair trade and price formation. At the beginning of a career artist, the artist is possibly even after estimates and desirability of the resulting interest in his work a base price. This often changes quickly when the artist is "ennobled" by working with one or more galleries, which are involved in the international art fair trade. Now there is the additional risk, a shot speculation (margin) and the often substantial fixed costs of the gallery business. There is now an appreciation per se all the relevant criteria are selected from which the importance of factor X is produced. Now what next? Now it's easy.
The most common market form of a price to be determined for an image simple, obvious and irritating at the same time. The formula: take height plus width of the image format in centimeters and multiply this value by the factor X.
me personally, for example, is credited with this math problem in the market for medium and large sizes of a factor between 18 and 20, with small formats on the other hand 7 to 9
Since me this model is not particularly appeals, I on my computer a mathematical formula that helps me to determine a proportional price, which is based on the above-mentioned factor X. I will come to almost identical results and it is my impression for the customer easier to understand. It should be mentioned
nor that it is common practice to draw on paper works about 10% of the determined amount. The above formula is of course only for unique applied. Editions of original graphics and serial on the art market will be judged by other criteria, they are often published in various print runs. Perhaps only 5 sheets were printed on a hand press by the artist in the studio. Or it became a manageable edition in a small private printing graphics editing. But even aware irritating than reproductions of original artwork declared present original drawings are occasionally printed in large numbers and endless offered. But more about it in a later post.




I hope this trip to Mammon empire limit your relationship to the art has not deteriorated too much. Only an estimated 5% of the artists and not significantly more percentage points among art dealers and gallery owners from the live well earned capital in the market. But the slalom in the maelstrom continues. Between idealism and sheer existence assertion, the unstable signs are set for the upright in the art possessed.
is the end, and remains of art and market ART MARKET. And that should and will remain so!







Monday, January 3, 2011

Mini Lombardi Trophies

I'm new.









A newcomer enters the stage the blogger. I conquer this carefully and I still learn about foreign new media. In addition to my website I will present recent work here. During my stay scholarship at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf "was recently pictured here include large sheet on the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri , Aquacryl and Chinese ink on handmade paper, 2010, 190 cm x 125 cm.