A ˜DETOUR? – A ‚Grand‘ Detour.
Early Experiences and Influences.

Arriving in the States I went athwart to Philadelphia.
To see Duchamp’s Etant donne
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.

To add: I like Dancing. I like S W I M M I N G – executing Strokes in pristine water.

O, keep my senses pure ! – (Thoreau)

21.05.2009