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About winter depressions. Since this topic has been with me for decades, I would like to present a few examples that have emerged over the years. A useful tool to cope with this is the artistic reflection on this topic.
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When it comes to painting, I'm most creative in the evening and after-hours. I can turn off the day's events and concentrate fully on painting. However, I have to be careful not to work too long. It often happens that I start with enthusiasm and vigor and fall in love with a job right from the start.
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I presented a tryptich a few days ago. As is so often the case, the underlying idea has not been shelved for me and so I wanted to see how a variant could look like. So I created another work to replace one of the tryptich.
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My first painting this year is this triptych. I will take this as an opportunity to present my point of view, because if I can manage to explain the essential points clearly, you may look at Chinese art from a different perspective in the future.
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In China, calligraphy is mainly written for the Chinese New Year, as far as calligraphy is still used. This year I wanted to start our New Year with calligraphy, with a poem by Tang Yin. He's not my favorite calligrapher, nor my favorite poet, but his work is good if you haven't practiced seriously in a long time.
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The year 2021 is over and, like every year, I am taking stock. This time as a blog post.
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Since I don't celebrate Christmas I have a lot of free time for other activities. And since I came across my box of bookmarks, I took that as an opportunity to create 20 bookmarks again.
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When I started painting decades ago, the first few years were marked by surrealism. Mainly because I was more concerned with literature and I soon came across authors like André Breton or Paul Éluard, whose ideas fascinated and influenced me.
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I made 2 versions on a topic that has been with me for a long time: 2 vanishing points. The easiest way to depict this idea is in a landscape painting and so I chose this construction.
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I haven't painted as much for a long time as I did this year and my vigor, joy and urge to improve is unbroken. Now we are in the 4th lockdown and I take it very calmly - more time to paint….
I deliberately took a short break from my Corona series. That prevents me from moving too much in the normal course. This is not new to me, when I enter the feel-good phase I make a caesura. I think it was Jan Cocteau who said: "Bathing in luke-warm water makes you anemic".
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