The view into the world of the self taught artists

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Steel & Color

Pictures from the autodidactic, educating contemporary artists.

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Apart from the resulted love for the iron plastic, I remained connected to painting in my life. Always experimenting provokes me also to attempt
most diverse techniques, mark reasons and style directions.
In the years of my self-instruction I experienced something of different art trends, but can´t assign my pictures to any single one.
At exhibitions my partner and I often asked "how many" painters are involved in it.
I´m not sure whether I am happy that the pictures seem so diverse or sad that it´s not clear the work is produced of one imagination.

Oil-paintings
Graphics-drawings
Glass pictures
Object art
Order work
Steel pictures

Day picture project since the 01.01.1999

Contemporary oil-paintings

"Art around the art sake. Demand that; Art moral or social or political targets to be subjected may not that art absolutely freely, only after artistic law moderately concern must."

Under oil paintings, I summarized different works, from different times.

I´ll start by talking about my roots the unspent "wildness" of my first pictures.
The Medusa and
Unconscious cry belong to my "early work".
In former times I often asked myself the question: "Who protects the art against the artist?" As if I had destroyed a picture hastily and were later sad over it.

But since once militant "art critics" pushed into my studio and helped me solve the difficult question of: "What" is art and "Who" is an artist?, by the destruction of the pictures, which where´t on exhibitions, or with friends, I ask myself, if I can achieve the expression again, which excited the minds in such a way.
Now one good thing had it also for itself. Since that time I destroy a picture only in extreme cases, if it makes me furious! - And I don´t ask myself whether it is Art, but: When?
The only unfortunate thing is, I have no video movie of it.

Since the establishment of the studio community, art criticisms of such type no longer occurred.

The grotto is made (for my mode of operation in private intention otherwise uncommonly), after a sketch.

I think it is the function of the artist to create mental concepts, chains of association, and to ask questions. Most of all to ask questions. To find out how the world is constituted. To ask questions - not: to give conditioned answers. Does the world to end, where my horizon is?

I think it is the function of artists to place EVERYTHING in question. Explaining questions: what still hides behind: behind this all. Because as long as nobody can prove the opposite, there could still be another possibilities, which were not possibly even considered.

Whether it is now impressionistic expressionism, monotheistic Surrealism, abstract Concretism. (Is muss sein. is muse sein. is muse in. is muse sinn! Play on words.) Is must be. is muse been. is muse in. is muse sense! Perhaps artists use also their pictures as thought supports, so that they note, to remind, about what they already thought.
What says a painter about her own pictures? Correctly, interpretations. Oh all dear words. Words, definitions. Words to be understood, interpreted, celebrated or corrupted - definitions, definitely, finite.

If we are all, everyone for itself, the sum of what we have learnt, experienced, done and thought. The result of the interpretation of the whole, then must be a painter, the result of all of her pictures.

Every other page this Steel and Color online exhibition is finished and I´ve saved this chapter about pictures until the end. Because it´s difficult? What does an artist write about her own pictures. If I don´t write you can still hear me. Can´t you? What words can I use to describe my own art?

If everyone of us is an integral part of a gigantic holographic memory, everyone of us contains the information of the whole one.
I mean, what I have expressed you can see here. Instead I would like to explain you the act of painting itself.

Now, i.e. if you can read this here, the present moment already is past. (As when yesterday was still the day after tomorrow.)
Now I want to describe the act of painting like opening a window into time. Painting is like opening a time window.

To dive into a country, beyond all imaginative power. If the picture is finished, it is like being awakened from a dream.

But the time-window exists. To open and enable to return at any time ready there.
It is nevertheless a question whether we trample spiders, or study its beauty.

The opposite of that to miss something. Naturally the older the time windows, the more expensive.
Perhaps in view of the fee, I speak for all artists of compensation. How highly, does the total have to be, so that the artist can overcome the pain?
Pain threshold falls and rises, depending upon social need.

If it something, as collective a consciousness exists, you can with your eyes by my pictures, perhaps see or experienced something - a time window open, there, where the other world of all words is.

Is painting nevertheless like diving, where beyond all words is.
Where a word is the first test of an interpretation.
Thinking concepts, which we would force upon life.

Interlaced in the attempt to create complex systems, systems of thought. And thus we are always more near to the chaos than we thought.

The more complex a system is, the more large is the probability that something goes wrong.

Delphinidae Interspecies Romance 2003	"Crack Your Brain" Flash film montages with the oil painting "Delphinidae Interspecies Romance"

Delphinidae 2009-2011

Dolphin	Dolphin with Baby	Dolphin with Babys

If there is something like collective subconscious, it is important, that some humans do nothing. Don´t do, in order to adjust the flux of all things. Which does not make anything does. NOT DOING, in order to compensate the flux of all things. To compensate the morphogenetic boxes of the collective subconscious by the pole of the standstill. Time window - Are they not in the end all fractals, who belongs to a gigantic puzzle. Which we do not know yet, or understand.

Sea roses pond in Giverny after Claude (Oscar) Monet

Sea roses pond in Giverny in autumn

"All artists are anarchists."

Drawings and pictures on paper and cardboard

Drawings 1987 - 1998.

Series: Psycho graphics

Paint-Shapes	The-Eye

The art is a supplement to reality. New aspects. A modification of the view. Changing seeing. Naturally we can call art also interporallappshyperactivity or the test to free itself from the internal pictures.

Free themselves from any dependencies and opinions. To release even from the own opinion.

To transform the volatile time into a window. To transform the fleeing moment into something solid.

Art is collected time.
Time is the most precious property, which humans can become conscious of.

If Art means knowledge and understanding, and if time is essential for the creation of Art, then you will know and understand something about collected time.

It concerns not an aesthetic final product, but the working process, or, in the sense of the view, around the thought process, itself.
Unless, you regard a picture as being beyond all words, you exclude certain chains of association.

Seize the intellect by the collar and regarded the picture, like from an ISO tank, as physical, sensually experience.

The current of the life does not belong to me, I flow with it.

"The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist. Ananda Coomraswamy (1877-1947), Indian writer."

Glass pictures

Paintings on glass. 1987 - 1999"

Just as I was convinced that I couldn´t achieve anything new in the medium of painting, my cooperation with Henning introduced me to the third dimension and offered me new possibilities with painting. The new space experience with the plastic work lead me again back to image area and to innumerable combination option with it.

It pushes to push artists to the boundaries of the feasible, win the maximum of force of expression in order to arrive as near as possible at the form visions.
Although we emerged as own bosses as pity-less slave drivers, our plurals coexistence promised an expansion in each direction. A flare of hope. A circle closed.

Art product: A collide of the power of intellect and conversion. In the case of us, another equation resulted: Art product: A collide of the power of intellect²and conversion².

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German scientist."

Object art

Object art. 1990 - 2000.

As a picture is a time window, then the iron plastic is manifested energy, bounded force.
With for steel moulds large dramatics is appropriate in the working process itself. The handling with glowing pieces steel is temporally limited, the matter cool down rapidly and becomes slow-acting. A miss can destroy the conception.

In the working process are the creative moments, which contain experimentation possibilities. The working process is spontaneous and associative. To forge is touch, like a love affair.

Hammer message force compresses. The internal physiognomy of the things sense and as medium hidden to make visible.
If it would mean for me to define Henning´s relationship with the iron, then I would have to speak of a love affair, fiery-hot, ambivalent and insatiable.

Hold with objects eye language, direct artistic intentions. Scrap iron assemblage: Rusty objects as excrements of a civilization, as both discharged, abandoned, and protest-loaded relics, to supply to a new regulation. Make themselves the servile tools of an iron will. To make self to the executing aide of prefabricated ideas. To live over-time-days and ask EVERYTHING.
That is a part of the art.
Thought work does not originate in the vacuum
= art - product: A collide of the powers of intellect²and conversion².
Products of the Industries are tied, repeatable, one can them quantify and their success measure at the gain.
The work of art removes itself from this standard. It is unique and from the personal world of the artist, from his abilities produced and arranged. It requires only the boundless and complete devotion of his personality for his doing.

Order work

Order work. 1990 - 1999."

Art ["knowledge, understanding", to be able originally "mentally to be able, know, understand]: Name for the whole of humans out brought (contrast nature), which is not by a function unique determined or in it exhausted (contrast technique), to which assumption high and specific ability as soon as an intellectual property may belong (contrast handicraft), which itself by social like individual organization distinguishes, without annulling preceding works by it or to have to offer the evidence of correctness of a statement (contrast science). DUDEN.

Plato: The perception of really protection convey.
Aristotle: Art could by the representation of possible human acting, the general of the idea world in the special one of the real situation, make visible.

By the imitation and completion of the natural one (Mimesis) the viewer is brought to experiencing his own incompleteness. (Catharsis, "cleaning").

Hegel: Art is sensually seeming of the idea.
If "Art" was at the beginning manifestation of the cosmic one in the object, it is today rather suggestion material for psychological thought processes of the subject in each conceivable form in the hope or utopia of a general modification of the experiencing ways.

To become fair attempt of the complexity of the reality. Passing on of the reality.
Art is movement, because everything moves. Tinguely, Manifesto over Art.
Beuys: Think is plastic.
Now well, a living artist remains nevertheless potential the option to become famous after his death.
Quotations: Free Translation of DUDEN

"Horsewoman with horse in the horse box."

Horse portrait.

Oil paintings portrait of horse with horsewoman on canvas. Representational painting, naturalistic style. 2007

"Leandras dreams of the sea."

T-Shirt

"Butterflies with snake" painted with fluorescent material color.

"Every human is an artist, but not every artist is a human."

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