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Denn die Kunst ist eine Tochter der Freiheit.

Schiller

Man weicht der Welt nicht sicherer aus als durch die Kunst ..

.. und man verknüpft sich nicht sicherer mit ihr als durch die Kunst.

Goethe

So – Are You in Love?

Künstler? Auf Anfrage.

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Geologic Time

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/travel/ansel-adams-photograph-sierra-nevada.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Adams remains an enormous inspiration for many generations of photographers.

Adams : and his black-’n-white-photography.

Adams : driven by purpose.

There was a time in his life, down on his luck, he – to get to California – sold everything. And all he got were 2 rolls of film at a drugstore per week.

Florida(s)

Amerika Haus. Berlin.


Anastasia Samoylova published her first love letter to Florida in 2020: Floridas

The exhibition – 2023 – in Berlin is absolutely amazing, a colorful joy, sunshine and bubblegum. If you love America – or hate it .. (In this case: shattered dreams.) Samoylova, you see, holds the perfect balance between incredible beauty, presented as the South East American lifestyle and dream, and the melancholically feeling of its ending.

The idea for this photos was born out of road trips she took. Inspired by the work of the artist Walter Evans *1843–1922.



My interest in Evans began out of aesthetic kinship

Anastasia Samoylova

Go West

Amerika Haus . Berlin . Präsentiert :

William Egglestone . *1939 in Tennesse . Mit :

Mystery of the Ordinary. 2023.

Aesthetics is defined how something is expressed, formulated, carried out. So it’s not about style, design or beauty. Aesthetic is a way of communication. Something, which is nonchalant or officially. Informally or formally. Rudely, violently, cordially or justly. Depending on ..

Aesthetics is humanely or mechanically. Precisely, loudly, soft, cozy, heart-warming, elegant. And so on. 

The „how“ determines – kind of – the value that is conveyed. Furthermore, aesthetics bears the capacity something to justify as wrong or right. Artistic integrity is not its outcome, instead a value producing way of working. 

Tate . 1938

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/colquhoun-scylla-t02140

„The title of this work refers to the female monster who, according to Greek mythology, inhabited a narrow channel of water and fed on passing sailors. Colquhoun explained that the image could be understood in two ways, both as a seascape and as an image of her body. ”It was suggested by what I could see of myself in a bath .. It is thus a pictorial pun, or double-image.“

Art shall and art should be .. Art could be seen – as whatever you can imagine.