I have a friend. To precisely define Jason is not easy, for he is quite unlike anyone I have ever hung around with before. I have known him since the beginning of this millennium and whenever I am in Freiburg im Breisgau I always ring him up and we will briefly get together for one… Continue reading Jason: a phenomenon
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An artistic temperament?
It seems at times that all kinds of odd characteristics and behaviour go with the job of being an artist… French Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) was working on a group of winter landscapes. The pictures were set in very beautiful and spectacular mountainous countryside and featured an oak tree and a river.… Continue reading An artistic temperament?
The Emperor’s New Culture
Fort Worth, Texas, 1989: We are driving at a furious pace on the interstate. Another argument ensues between ex-fiancee sculptress Susan and I over artistic responsibility. I express disgust that one painting, American Barnett Newman’s Voice of Fire, an abstract painting of three vertical stripes – the outer two blue, the inner one red –… Continue reading The Emperor’s New Culture