EXCURSION
A ‘DETOUR’? - A ‘Grand’ Detour.
(Early Experiences and Influences.)
Arriving in the States I went athwart to Philadelphia.
Peeping through the famous hole to see Duchamp’s ‘Etant donnes’
Starting my ‘ART-Detour’ from here.
“..dem, was ich sehe, entspricht kein Satz oder Bild”
“..er muss die Saetze und Bilder ueberwinden, dann sieht er die Welt richtig”
(In a nutchell: You ‘think’ in a way it’s not your way.)
In discovering ThoughtProcess the truth of what is puts an end to the ThoughtProcess.
‘The Seeing is the Doing’
As a child I had the opportunity to study some of the outstanding SKIRA-Volumes, once edited in Swizzerland and famous for their Print-Qualities.
- I loved them tenderly.
I started with a small Picasso - SkiraVolume , followed by a small one of Fra Angelico : pictures with wonderful genuine Gold-Applications - in other AngelicoEditions all these heavenly glitterings in different parts of the images were lost when printed in ‘yellow’.
The same phenomenon I experienced later in one of Mantegna’s paperstudies I saw in an exhibition : “Christ descending into hell - [Discesa al Limbo]“: ‘Wind’ is blowing out of the hellish depth, artistically formed with glimmering golden strokes like a ‘golden’ storm engulfing Christ’s clothes — Never to realize when gold is yellow-colored printed. You get only a vague glint in books what’s going on.
(So I learned that Reproductions are always meager substitutes for Originals. Not only concerning ‘Gold’. ..The Seeing is the Doing…)
There were naturally other influences I was exposed to. During my youth and some times later.
An aunt of mine took me to Kassel’s “Gemaeldegalerie”.
Here I saw - the Seeing is the Doing! - my first Rembrandt and my first Venitian Painter : Titian. Best examples of an Art, making COLOUR the realm of extraordinary pictorial strength.
(The author being intoxicated since by Colors and Color-STROKES.)
Last not least Caravaggio. Whenever I could see a picture of him - climaxing in this extraordinary, awstrucking “Beheading of St. Joan” in Valetta (a masterpiece of European Art.
Installed like a Theaterscene) I did not shun travelling to visit it.
I like Dancing. I like S W I M M I N G - Executing Strokes in splashing water.
O, keep my senses pure ! - (Thoreau)
21.05.2009